Through a repertoire that combined influences from the Cuban Trova and Argentine
folkloric music with socially-conscious lyrics, the politically-minded
singer-songwriter and writer Víctor Heredia became the voice of the
disenfranchised—both in his own native country and throughout the rest of Latin
America. Born Víctor Ramón Cournou Heredia on January 24, 1947, in Buenos Aires,
he spent most of his childhood in the neighborhood of Paso del Rey, right
outside the city's Capital District. He began performing from a very young age
and won the newcomer's prize at the 1967 Cosquín Fes...