For Rolling Stone's annual Icons & Influences series, silvanaestradab talks about the deep influence Argentine activist and folk legend Mercedes Sosa had on her music. 'You can hear where she comes from, where she’s going, and who she’s singing for.'
Mercedes always moved me, but the first moment that truly stunned me was when I heard “Sólo le Pido a Dios.” She sings, “” . I come from a part of Mexico where there’s death and violence because of the drug wars. I was about 11 or 12 when I heard that line, and I understood that fear of not wanting to lose the capacity to feel the pain of so much loss. It was so common in my neighborhood to hear about deaths every single day that suddenly it stopped becoming news.
My generation, we’re so tired and overstimulated and burnt out. There’s that need to go back to simplicity, to honesty, to the clarity that people wrote with: “” People in Mexico didn’t know what Mercedes’ face looked like; her albums reached us first. It was the urgency of the music, of communicating sadness or hope. I listened to “¿Será Posible El Sur?” recently because the lyrics are from one of my favorite poets, Mario Benedetti, and that song is so moving.
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