Daniel Viglietti (Daniel Alberto Viglietti Indart, Montevideo, Uruguay, 24 … Read Full Bio ↴Daniel Viglietti (Daniel Alberto Viglietti Indart, Montevideo, Uruguay, 24 July 1939 – 30 October 2017) was an Uruguayan folk singer, guitarist, composer, and political activist. He is one of the main exponents of Uruguayan popular song and also of the Nueva Canción of the 1960s and early 1970s.
He founded, in 1971, the recognized independent record label Ayuí/Tacuabé in order to promote and support valuable Uruguayan musical expressions, along with other musicians like José "Pepe" Guerra, Braulio López, Coriún Aharonián, Myriam Dibarboure, María Teresa Sande and Edgardo Bello,
He has performed the works of Cuban Nueva Trova stars Silvio Rodríguez and Pablo Milanés and Brazil's Chico Buarque and Edu Lobo and has worked with Cuban composer and arranger Leo Brouwer. His recordings are widely available, especially "Trópicos" (1972).
Viglietti was imprisoned in 1972 by his own government. He was supported by the likes of Jean-Paul Sartre as an international man of conscience, a voice for peace, and an opponent of the fascism and tyranny that plagued South America in the 1970s. Rumors about possible mistreatment against him forced the authorities to bring him out in front of television cameras to show that, in particular, his hands were fine. However, Viglietti spoke out that his treatment in police custody was much better than what other political prisoners received. He was a peer of the late Chilean poet and folk singer Victor Jara and composer and activist Violeta Parra.
He founded, in 1971, the recognized independent record label Ayuí/Tacuabé in order to promote and support valuable Uruguayan musical expressions, along with other musicians like José "Pepe" Guerra, Braulio López, Coriún Aharonián, Myriam Dibarboure, María Teresa Sande and Edgardo Bello,
He has performed the works of Cuban Nueva Trova stars Silvio Rodríguez and Pablo Milanés and Brazil's Chico Buarque and Edu Lobo and has worked with Cuban composer and arranger Leo Brouwer. His recordings are widely available, especially "Trópicos" (1972).
Viglietti was imprisoned in 1972 by his own government. He was supported by the likes of Jean-Paul Sartre as an international man of conscience, a voice for peace, and an opponent of the fascism and tyranny that plagued South America in the 1970s. Rumors about possible mistreatment against him forced the authorities to bring him out in front of television cameras to show that, in particular, his hands were fine. However, Viglietti spoke out that his treatment in police custody was much better than what other political prisoners received. He was a peer of the late Chilean poet and folk singer Victor Jara and composer and activist Violeta Parra.
No tan gotan
Daniel Viglietti Lyrics
(tango) en un gotán voy a exprimir
Un otro gajo de guitarra
La naranja sigue ajena y el guardián
Y el guardián nos madrugó
Con el pulgar quiero marcar
Donde está el bien, donde está el mal
La mordaza bien mordida por el tango
Por el tango que arrancó
No arrancó la piel del hambre
Que es muy dura de pelar
Después buscó la justicia
Le cortaron el pulgar
Tango muñón para golpear
La dura puerta nacional
La de bisagras extranjeras, la de mentiras
De mentiras bien de veras
De contragol, de cantegril
De jubilados de esperar
La patria dio parte de enferma y marchó presa
Marchó presa al hospital
Hospital de las mentiras
Que quedan sin contestar
Esta gripe del silencio
Viene tirando a matar
Muertos de sed o de estudiar
Allá en la plaza libertad
La lección nueva del liceo
Ésa, ésa que dice ¡nunca más!
Nunca más oiremos tangos
Como los del tiempo aquel
Pero hay que seguir cantando
Aunque ya no esté gardel
Pero hay que seguir cantando
En un gotán quise exprimir
Un otro gajo de guitarra
La naranja sigue ajena pero el tango
Pero el tango corte y hacha no acabó
Un otro gajo de guitarra
La naranja sigue ajena y el guardián
Y el guardián nos madrugó
Con el pulgar quiero marcar
Donde está el bien, donde está el mal
La mordaza bien mordida por el tango
Por el tango que arrancó
No arrancó la piel del hambre
Que es muy dura de pelar
Le cortaron el pulgar
Tango muñón para golpear
La dura puerta nacional
La de bisagras extranjeras, la de mentiras
De mentiras bien de veras
De contragol, de cantegril
De jubilados de esperar
La patria dio parte de enferma y marchó presa
Marchó presa al hospital
Hospital de las mentiras
Que quedan sin contestar
Esta gripe del silencio
Viene tirando a matar
Muertos de sed o de estudiar
Allá en la plaza libertad
La lección nueva del liceo
Ésa, ésa que dice ¡nunca más!
Nunca más oiremos tangos
Como los del tiempo aquel
Pero hay que seguir cantando
Aunque ya no esté gardel
Pero hay que seguir cantando
En un gotán quise exprimir
Un otro gajo de guitarra
La naranja sigue ajena pero el tango
Pero el tango corte y hacha no acabó
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