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"Libre" ("Free") is a song by José Luis Armenteros and Pablo Herrero, first performed and made popular by Spanish pop star Nino Bravo on his 1972 album of the same name. The song's lyrics tell of a young man who is "tired of dreaming" and yearns to fly "free like a bird that escaped its prison."[1]

"Libre"
Single by Nino Bravo
A-side	"Libre"
B-side	"Vete"
Released	1972 (1972)
Genre	Ballad
Length	4:11
Label	Polydor
Songwriter(s)	José Luis Armenteros, Pablo Herrero

A hit in Spain, the song also became popular in much of Spanish-speaking Latin America, where it took on political overtones. Banned in Cuba, in Chile it was adopted as an unofficial anti-communist anthem and became popular among supporters of the military junta.[2] In her study Sounds of Memory: Music and Political Captivity in Pinochet’s Chile (1973-1990) music historian Katia Chornik of the University of Manchester claims the song was played during the tortures against political prisoners at the time of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship.[3]

The song was, according to some sources, inspired by the death of Peter Fechter, who was killed while trying to cross the Berlin Wall in 1962.[4][5] However, Pablo Herrero, one of the composers of the song, has denied any relationship between the song and the Berlin Wall in an interview conducted on Radio 5 (Spanish public radio station) [6]

References

External links

• Nino Bravo performance of Libre on YouTube
• Performance of Libre for Pinochet supporters in 1977 on YouTube
• Marta Sánchez performance of Libre on YouTube

На других языках

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- [en] Libre (Nino Bravo song)

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[es] Libre (canción de Nino Bravo)

«Libre» es una canción del álbum Mi tierra del cantante Nino Bravo. Fue compuesta en 1972 por José Luis Armenteros y Pablo Herrero, adaptada a las características de la voz de Nino Bravo.

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