There's the Latin music of Shakira, Ricky Martin and Enrique Iglesias, and then there's the "real" Latin music, the music of people like Silvio Rodriguez, Milton Nascimento and Ruben Blades, artists ...

Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa, the "voice of Latin America" whose music inspired opponents of South America's brutal military regimes and led to her forced exile in Europe, died Sunday, her ...

A friend of mine, a Cuban music nut, sent me a wonderful video of the late Mercedes Sosa today. I was fortunate to have met and interviewed her several times. I was both humbled and moved. I watched ...

After winning a radio contest as a child, Argentinian vocalist Mercedes Sosa (1935–2009) dedicated her life to singing about social injustice, becoming “the voice of the voiceless.” When a military ...

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa, who fought South America's dictators with her voice and became a giant of contemporary Latin American music, died on Sunday at age 74, her ...