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Víctor Lidio Jara Martínez (Spanish pronunciation: ) (September 28, 1932 - September 16, 1973) was a Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, political activist and member of the Communist Party of Chile.

Cover information about the songs on the release Manifiesto - Chile September 1973 by Victor Jara: who covered the songs, who sang the originals.

Manifiesto Chile September 1973 (1974). Album by Víctor Jara. was covered in. Manifiesto by Victor Heredia (1998).

Manifiesto - Chile September 1973. Chilean poet and singer, one of the more influentials in the XXth century. Born 23rd September 1932 in Lonquén (Chile). He was murdered shortly after Pinochet's coup on September 11th, 1973. After singing in a University Chorus, his musical career started in 1957 when he met who encouraged him to write his own songs. He joined, a folk band that published that year an album of the same name where Victor sang "Se me ha escapado un suspiro".

In the album participates the Chilean group Inti-Illimani and the Chilean musician Patricio Castillo. Patricio Castillo belonged, until 1971, to Quilapayún another famous Chilean band, later on it re-entered to the group, in a definitive way, several years later.

Victor Jara had another idea. Four days before, Chile’s September 11 had seen General Augusto Pinochet topple the elected leftist government of Salvador Allende, murdering the president in his palace. A long pall of evil settled over the country, with all the accustomed chilling familiars: disappeared people, mirrored shades, Jeane Kirkpatrick. he the last day Víctor Jara was seen alive was September 15. During the afternoon he was taken out of a line of prisoners who were being transferred to the National Stadium. In the early morning of the next day, September 16, shantytown dwellers found his body, along with five others, including that of Littré Quiroga Carvajal, near the Metropolitan Cemetery.

Manifiesto is the ninth solo studio album from Chilean songwriter Víctor Jara. In the album participates the Chilean group Inti-Illimani and the Chilean musician Patricio Castillo.

Jara was murdered in Chile 45 years ago today on September 16, 1973. The 40-year-old folk singer was detained after the coup that placed dictator Augusto Pinochet in power, and, along with about five thousand university students, professors, activists and others was brought to Santiago’s Chile Stadium. Soldiers crushed his fingers, stepping on his hands and smashing them with the butt of a gun, to symbolically silence his guitar, and then shot him 44 times. They did not succeed in muting his music or his message  . The stadium where the artist was killed was renamed Victor Jara Stadium in 2004. In remembrance of Victor Jara, here is his song Manifiesto, released after his death on the 1974 album of the same name.

Víctor Lidio Jara Martínez (28 September 1932 – 15 September 1973) was a pedagogue, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, and political activist from Chile. A distinguished theatre director, he devoted himself to the development of Chilean theatre, directing a broad array of works from locally produced Chilean plays, to the classics of the world stage, to the experimental work of Ann Jellicoe.