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The Mama Negra is a traditional festival held twice a year in Latacunga, Cotopaxi Province, Ecuador. Also called La Santísima Tragedia (The Holy Tragedy), it is a celebration in honor of the Virgen de la Merced (Virgin of Mercy), who is said to have stopped an eruption of Cotopaxi volcano in 1742.
La Fiesta de la Mama Negra is a well-known traditional festival in Latacunga. [3] It takes place twice a year, and originates from a mixture of indigenous, Spanish and African influences. The first one was organized in September by the people from the markets "La Merced y Del Salto" in honor of the Virgin of Mercy, Virgen de la Merced. The ...
Victoria Eugenia Santa Cruz Gamarra (27 October 1922 – August 30, 2014) [1] was an Afro-Peruvian choreographer, composer and activist.. Victoria Santa Cruz would go on to be called "the mother of Afro Peruvian dance and theatre."
La Negra Carlota (died 1844), enslaved Cuban woman and rebel leader; Caridad la Negra (1879–1960), Spanish prostitute and madam; Isabel la Negra (died 1974), Puerto-Rican brothel owner; Arminda Aberastury (1910–1972), Argentine psychoanalyst; Toña la Negra (1912–1982), Mexican singer and actress; Mercedes Sosa (1935–2009), Argentine singer
Leonor González Mina (June 16, 1934 – November 27, 2024) was an Afro-Colombian musician and actress, known as "la Negra Grande de Colombia" ("The Great Black Woman of Colombia"). She is known for her work in several genres of Colombian music, including bolero, pasillo, bambuco, and especially cumbia. She is known for songs such as "Mi ...
"El Son de la Negra" (lit. The Song of the Black Woman) is a Mexican folk song , originally from Tepic, Nayarit , [ 1 ] before its separation from the state of Jalisco , and best known from an adaptation by Jalisciense musical composer Blas Galindo in 1940 for his suite Sones de mariachi .
Toña la Negra was born Antonia del Carmen Peregrino Álvarez on 2 November 1912, [1] in La Huaca, a neighborhood of Veracruz, Veracruz. Her father, Timoteo Peregrino Reyes (born c. 1857), played guitar [ 3 ] and was a founding member of a guild of local port workers. [ 4 ]
The song "La Llorona" is featured in the 2017 Disney-Pixar film Coco; it is performed by Alanna Ubach as Imelda Rivera and Antonio Sol in a guest appearance as Ernesto de la Cruz in the English version and Angelica Vale and Marco Antonio Solis in the Spanish version. In the film, Imelda sings the song during the sunrise concert as she attempts ...