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Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio

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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Sánchez and the second or maternal family name is Ferlosio.
Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio
Background information
Birth nameJosé Antonio Sánchez Ferlosio
Born(1940-04-08)8 April 1940
Madrid, Spain
Died30 June 2003(2003-06-30) (aged 63)
Madrid, Spain
GenresSpanish folk
OccupationSinger-songwriter
Instrument(s)Voice, classical guitar
Years active1961–2003

José Antonio Sánchez Ferlosio (1940–2003), commonly known by his nickname Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio, was a Spanish anti-Francoist singer-songwriter and poet. Although the son of Falangist leader Rafael Sánchez Mazas, by the 1960s, Chicho Sánchez had joined the anti-Francoist opposition and began making and publishing music for the movement. Initially a communist, he later became an anarchist and continued making music through the Spanish transition to democracy.

Biography

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José Antonio Sánchez Ferlosio, later known by the nickname "Chicho",[1] was born in 1940.[2] He was the third son of the Falangist leader Rafael Sánchez Mazas,[3] and the younger brother of Miguel [es], Rafael and Gabriela Sánchez Ferlosio.[2] After growing up in Francoist Spain, a regime which his own father had helped to establish, Sánchez turned against the regime and became a staunch anti-Francoist activist.[4]

By the 1960s, Sánchez had become a popular singer-songwriter of the anti-Francoist opposition.[5] In 1961, he met a group of Italian anti-fascist musicians known as Cantacronache, with which he travelled around Spain collecting anti-Francoist poems and songs. Two years later, in 1963, he released the album Canciones de la resistencia española (English: Songs of the Spanish Resistance), which he published clandestinely in Sweden.[6]

To evade Francoist censorship, Sánchez often presented the political content of his songs indirectly, as was the case with his 1964 song "Gallo rojo, gallo negro" (English: Red Rooster, Black Rooster).[7] Sánchez popularised the song "La Huelga" (English: The Strike), written by Chilean singer-songwriter Roberto Alarcón, among Spanish listeners.[8] He also inspired the Catalan Nova Cançó movement, which sought to rehabilitate regional cultures that were marginalised by the centralisation of the Francoist regime.[9]

In 1965, Sánchez joined the Communist Party of Spain (Marxist–Leninist) (PCE-ML), but he quickly became disillusioned with Marxism-Leninism after visiting People's Republic of Albania and observing the political repression taking place there.[10] He soon left the communist party and became an anarchist.[11] Inspired by the anarchist philosophy of Agustín García Calvo, Sánchez became intensely critical of institutions such as the state, capitalism and the Catholic Church.[12] He later joined the National Confederation of Labour (CNT), an anarchist trade union centre.[13]

His music remained popular following the Spanish transition to democracy, taking a place among the counterculture that emerged during the 1970s.[10] Later in his life, Sánchez was interviewed in a park in Madrid for the 2003 film Soldiers of Salamina, in which the protagonist investigated the unsuccessful attempt by Spanish republicans to execute his father.[14] Sánchez died that same year, in 2003.[2]

Discography

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References

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  1. ^ Linville 2012, p. 370.
  2. ^ a b c de Lorenzo & Ibarra 2020, p. 256.
  3. ^ de Lorenzo & Ibarra 2020, p. 256; Linville 2012, p. 370.
  4. ^ Archibald 2012, p. 182n10; de Haro García 2019, p. 211n40; de Lorenzo & Ibarra 2020, p. 256; Miranda-Barreiro 2023, p. 30.
  5. ^ de Haro García 2019, p. 211n40; de Lorenzo & Ibarra 2020, p. 256; Miranda-Barreiro 2023, p. 30.
  6. ^ Forti 2021, p. 143.
  7. ^ Green & Marc 2016, p. 13.
  8. ^ Mulinari 2020, p. 124.
  9. ^ Forti 2021, p. 143; Sanz Sabido 2016, p. 68.
  10. ^ a b de Haro García 2019, p. 211n40.
  11. ^ Archibald 2012, p. 182n10; de Haro García 2019, p. 211n40.
  12. ^ Ordóñez 2018, p. 76.
  13. ^ Archibald 2012, p. 182n10.
  14. ^ Archibald 2012, pp. 175–176; Linville 2012, pp. 370–371.

Bibliography

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  • Archibald, David (2012). "The search for truth in Soldados de Salamina/Soldiers of Salamina". The war that won't die. Manchester University Press. pp. 168–183. doi:10.7765/9781526141842.00014. ISBN 978-0-7190-7808-8.
  • de Haro García, Noemi (2019). "La Familia Lavapiés: Maoism, art and dissidence in Spain". In Galimberti, Jacopo; de Haro García, Noemi; H. F. Scott, Victoria (eds.). Art, Global Maoism and the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Manchester University Press. pp. 187–212. doi:10.7765/9781526117472.00015. ISBN 9781526117472.
  • de Lorenzo, Javier; Ibarra, Andoni (2020). "The Fanciful Optimism of Miguel Sánchez-Mazas. Let Us Calculate... = Freedom and Justice - (El Optimismo Soñador de Miguel Sánchez-Mazas. Calculemos... = Libertad y Justicia". Theoria: An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science. 35 (3): 255–65. doi:10.1387/theoria.21922. hdl:10810/47916. ISSN 0495-4548. JSTOR 26936761.
  • Forti, Steven (2021). ""L'estaca:" Transnational Trajectories of a Catalan Antifascist Song". Popular Music and Society. 44 (2): 139–156. doi:10.1080/03007766.2020.1820781.
  • Green, Stuart; Marc, Isabelle (2016). "More Than Words: Theorizing the Singer-Songwriter". The Singer-Songwriter in Europe. Routledge. ISBN 9781315552910.
  • Linville, Rachel Ann (2012). "The Idealization of Memory in Soldiers of Salamis". Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. 89 (4): 363–379. doi:10.3828/bhs.2012.27.
  • Miranda-Barreiro, David (2023). "Songs of Migration: Toward a Poetics of (Un)happiness in Galician Pop Music (1969–1980)". In Amarelo, Daniel; Lesta García, Laura (eds.). Beyond sentidiño: New Diasporic Reflections on Galician Culture. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003330813-4. ISBN 9781003330813.
  • Mulinari, Paula (2020). "The Best Thing I Have Done Is to Give Birth; The Second Is to Strike". In Fakier, Khayaat; Mulinari, Diana; Räthzel, Nora (eds.). Marxist-Feminist Theories and Struggles Today. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 124–143. ISBN 9781786996176.
  • Ordóñez, Vicente (December 2018). "Agustin García Calvo in our time". Radical Philosophy (203): 73–77. ISSN 0300-211X.
  • Sanz Sabido, Ruth (2016). "'Hunger for Bread and Horizons' Protest Songs in Franco's Spain". In Price, Stuart; Sanz Sabido, Ruth (eds.). Sites of Protest. pp. 57–71.
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