Martina Portocarrero
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Martina Portocarrero (Nazca, Peru, September 29, 1949 - Lausanne, Switzerland, April 22, 2022)[1] was a Peruvian folk singer, cultural researcher, and politician. She was an interpreter of huaynos and mulizas, as well as a researcher of Andean culture. Portocarrero was posthumously honored as Personalidad Meritoria de la Cultura (Meritorious Personality of Culture).
Biography
In 1970, Leonila Martina Portocarrero Ramos entered the Universidad Nacional de Música in Lima. She studied at the Escuela de Nacional de Arte Dramático, as well as at the National University of San Marcos (UNMSM), but it was in Switzerland where she graduated from university as an educator.
In the 1908s, she began her career as a soloist, performing huaynos throughout Peruv. Around 1984, she traveled to Europe, introducing Latin American music in European festivals. In 1986, she settled in Switzerland and continued spreading the folklore and traditional art of Peru.[2] Her interpretation of the Ayacucho huayno song "Flor de Retama", composed by Ricardo Dolorier, which refers to the Huanta student rebellion of 1969, was well known.[3]
Portocarrero was twice a pre-candidate for the presidency of the Republic, in 2001 for FREPAP, withdrawing before the election, and in 2016, for Broad Front,[4] being defeated in the internal elections by the anthropologist Verónika Mendoza. In 2006, Portocarrero was a candidate for mayor of Lima for the Union for Peru party, obtaining only 4.63% of the votes. In 2016 and 2020, Portocarrero ran for Congress for the Broad Front party. In 2021, she ran with the political party Free Peru but was excluded by the National Jury of Elections. Portocarrero formed her own political group, the Movimiento Político Cultural Mundo Verde. She was touted as a possible Ministro de Cultura del Perú (Minister of Culture) during the beginning of the governments of Ollanta Humala[5] and Pedro Castillo.[6]
Martina Portocarrero died on April 22, 2022, in Switzerland, as a result of lung cancer.[1] In May 2022, the Peruvian government posthumously awarded her the recognition of Meritorious Personality of Culture.[7]
References
- ^ a b "Martina Portocarrero, intérprete de "Flor de retama", muere tras luchar contra el cáncer de pulmón". larepublica.pe (in Spanish). 24 April 2022. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
- ^ "Martina Portocarrero - EcuRed". www.ecured.cu (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 February 2023.
- ^ "Murió Martina Portocarrero, cantante de "Flor de Retama", tras batallar contra el cáncer de pulmón". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved 18 February 2023.
- ^ "Presidenciales 2016: siete precandidatos se inscriben en el Frente Amplio". andina.pe (in Spanish). 21 August 2015. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
- ^ "Bases de Gana Perú postulan a Martina Portocarrero como Ministra de Cultura". RPP (in Spanish). 15 July 2011. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
- ^ "Martina Portocarrero y su desazón por no ser la ministra de Cultura: "Creo que hice méritos"" (video). El Bocón (in Spanish). 7 October 2021. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
- ^ "Martina Portocarrero: cantante folclórica es declarada como "Personalidad Meritoria de la Cultura"". larepublica.pe (in Spanish). 4 May 2022. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
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- 1949 births
- 2022 deaths
- Peruvian folk singers
- 20th-century Peruvian women singers
- 21st-century Peruvian women singers
- 21st-century Peruvian politicians
- 21st-century Peruvian women politicians
- Agricultural People's Front of Peru politicians
- Union for Peru politicians
- Free Peru politicians
- Deaths from lung cancer
- Deaths from cancer in Switzerland
- National University of San Marcos alumni
- People from Ica Region