The Black 
Salvador " The Black "Ojeda
Salvador" The Black " Ojeda died yesterday morning at his home in Coyoacan . With more than six-decade career, he taught generations of troubadours, soneros, rumba ...
The artist, 80, "was a melting pot, a syncretism of deities and symbols, that was The Black for me," the singer called David Haro Veracruz, a friend of chilango birth, though rumba, jarocho and troubadour at heart, as he himself appointed.
"The Black Ojeda, one is in itself a living are said Haro, suffered from a longstanding lung bronchitis, but nothing could stop him. If I had not done music I would have died, as easy as it said on occasion Ojeda, a pillar in the rediscovery of popular music of our country and master many of singer-songwriters, who saw in him a kind of patriarch.
was all great, great friend, artist, teacher and an old, any mother. It really hurts. I spent much time with him and that was very pleasing. He sang as few, as he took a song that became something else, usually better, and that is the great virtue of an interpreter, said the singer Rafael Mendoza, another near the Black , who influenced him.
Music, healing
"The Black" considered that music is healing for mankind. That's all up to me. Me out of the most horrific depressions, once said in these pages. That the experience had marked him was discovered in 1946, Cuban popular music. Founded a rumba with which debuted at a restaurant in Paseo de la Reforma . The next 15 years, after passing through the Children's Choir Bombay, where extended his expertise in choral music, he formed different groups of fans of musical genres, such as the Mexican and Latin American folk and vernacular song, said in a separate interview published in this journal.
Ojeda, creator of dozens of albums, had a wonderful universe of music that everyone, especially the young, we passed. There are so many, I do not remember the names of those who learned. It was a totem for all musicians who Mexico we followed, the father of the young. How do you describe it, if this wonderful man had a hundred thousand sides, a hundred thousand faces? It is a hole in the popular culture of Mexico said Tehua singer.
Salvador Ojeda was born in Mexico City in 1931, but said adoption jarocho. He played guitar, piano, bass and drums. He highlighted to compose sones, corridos, boleros and huapangos. He was a researcher of Mexican popular music. With the installation in 1962, his cabaret Chez Black (board for emerging artists) was the cornerstone for the subsequent creation of the so-called clubs, forums focused on the new song, the social context and trova. At Chez Black presented from beginners to shine soon after to a greater or lesser extent as Gerardo Tamez, Nacho Méndez, Matilde, Janus Portillo, Berta Margarita Bauche and Cabal, to established professionals, including Lola Beltran, Chamin Correa, Michel Paco Domínguez and Milla.
It was there where he met René Villanueva and brothers Avila, with whom he founded the transcendental group The Folklore, which was musical director the following two years, during which we recorded three albums and performed countless tours, radio and television programs, said the artist.
David Haro pedagogy emphasizes organic The Black to their younger colleagues: "When I met gave me life in my death, because this man was something like they are in themselves same, but are living. An excellent performer, a guy who recreated the life of a song. He had that feeling. I learned many things and if it is talk talk a color that refers much to the rumba, the color of my rumba in this case. It was love, happy, always look on one side to another, carrying serenades. It was a compendium, a song of things even sui generis. do not know if I wanted and I loved to the core. He was an incomparable friend. "
Rafa Mendoza abounds:" No physical is a big hole because he was too skinny, but it's a shame that people die we want and we have marked. In the distance, when I met him I really learned a lot. I never taught a class, because you only hear you learned. How would our wanted Marcial (Alejandro) , "pa 'what more depth? "
solidarity time
Tehua adds:" In addition to great character, as a musician was extraordinary. There will be plenty of people who appreciate your great support, solidarity, confidence. When I arrived in Mexico I just sang the chuntata-chuntata and a dear friend told me, 'you sing nice but you have to learn to play better guitar. " I took my house and at that time I met Don Salvador Black Ojeda. Is my friend (we were both sponsors of Luz, daughter Marcial Alejandro and Maru Enríquez) .
Long solidarity in song, on stage. Is a gap, as we leave all but the great lesson that so many boys did, from rockers to soneros, from Veracruz, Oaxaca and to Cubans.
David Haro even he wrote a piece Gea, that, through the earpiece during the interview, he sang: Gea, skin copper / Gea is the sound of your heart / is the son sound of the Leeward / rich rumba rumba inside ...
A life should not be taken seriously, reiterated on several occasions Salvador Ojeda, who showed his rumba and his song at venues like the Palace of Fine Arts , forums, schools, plazas, festivals ... Was influenced by self-taught Cuban music. From his podium, dictatorships in Latin America and social changes and utopias were filling their baggage. Rather than concern about the social music, her interest in music in general.
never struck me was how many records you sell, how much wool I would win or how many would sign autographs, because I always felt the need to be free, said in these pages for an interview. Against commercial music had no complaint, but disliked the intentionally bad music. That was The Black, who admitted that his presence was always outside the media, commercial, and every singer considered social context.
My rule of thumb is never going to ask anyone gimmick, go where I am invited, with or without money, and thank you for giving me the opportunity to express, asserted the contestation of called star system, as defined by Paco Ignacio Taibo .
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