Nacha Guevara

Nacha Guevara (born Clotilde Acosta, October 3, 1940) is an Argentine singer and actor from Mar de Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Trained as a dancer and actress, she discovered by chance a career as a singer becoming a symbol in the song of protest movement around 1968 in the avant-garde Instituto Di Tella in Buenos Aires, the preeminent pioneer center for visual and theater experimentation at that time. She was a controversial cult figure in the underground movement and as a singer-songwriter in the "cafe-concert" scene, singing tunes and parodies by Boris Vian, George Brassens, Tom Lehrer, Nicolas Guill├®n and argentinian writers like Julio Cort├ízar, Jorge de la Vega, Ernesto Schoo and others. At the beginning of 1970, one of her pivotal works was "Nacha sings Benedetti", where she and Alberto Favero, musical partner and at that time husband, wrote some of the most famous poems of Uruguayan poet Mario Benedetti to music. In 1973 she obtained ample recognition by critics and audiences with a big revue named Las mil y una Nachas (One thousand and one Nachas). Nacha Guevara exiled herself first to Peru then Mexico during the Dirty War, threatened by the Triple A death squad. She attempted to make a comeback in 1976 with a new version of "Las mil y una Nachas". The show was never performed. After the dress rehearsal prior to the opening night, a bomb destroyed the theater, killing members of the crew and forcing her to flee the country once more.