Isaias Gamboa (music producer)
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Isaias Gamboa (April 22, 1963) is a Costa Rican-American music producer and author born in San Jose to parents of Spanish and Afro-Caribbean ancestry. His mother, Carmen Gamboa Beckles, was from the mostly black coastal city of Puerto Limon. His father, Danilo Gamboa Mora, came from the predominantly white provincial city of San Ramón.
A music industry veteran, he has written, produced and arranged more than 20 songs for The Temptations and other major recording artists. [1]
Gamboa also has a rich religious heritage. His mother was Baptist, and his father Catholic. He can also claim Jewish heritage through his maternal grandmother, Louise Teitelbaum. This background, along with his musical knowledge, inspired and informed several important projects, paramount among them his 2012 book,We Shall Overcome: Sacred Song on the Devil’s Tongue. [2] [3]
We Shall Overcome: Sacred Song on the Devil’s Tongue is a biography of Louise Shropshire (1913-1993), songwriter and close friend of the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King. Shropshire played an important role in the creation of the iconic freedom song, “We Shall Overcome.” The song has been credited to “Unknown” for more than 50 years, but recently uncovered facts (presented in Gamboa’s book) trace Shropshire’s uncredited involvement with the freedom standard to her 1954 hymn, “If My Jesus Wills,” from which prima facie and other evidence indicates “We Shall Overcome” was derived. [4]
Louise Shropshire's papers were acquired late in 2014 by the University of Cincinnati. [5] According to The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, the collection includes photographs, letters, sheet music and other documents.[6] [7]
References
- ^ "Isaias Gambona credits as producer, composer or arranger". ALLMUSIC.com. Retrieved 2015-02-15.
- ^ David Holthaus. "Book: Cincinnati musician wrote 'We Shall Overcome'". Usatoday.com. Retrieved 2013-09-11.
- ^ Samantha Ofole-Prince. "Costa Rican Author, Isaias Gamboa, Pens Controversial Book". CaribPress News Magazine. Retrieved 2013-05-09.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Joel M Beall, Cincinnati.com. "'We Shall Overcome' belongs to Cincinnati". Retrieved 2015-02-15.
- ^ "UC Historical Collection Reveals the Songwriter Who United the Voice of the National Civil Rights Movement publisher=University of Cincinnati press release". Retrieved 2015-02-15.
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- ^ "University of Cincinnati acquires the collections of Louise Shropshire". Retrieved 2015-02-15.