Susana Baca interview: “These trying times in which we now live demand combative women willing to risk it all to give us our freedom” | Songlines
Friday, November 26, 2021

“These trying times in which we now live demand combative women willing to risk it all to give us our freedom” | Susana Baca interview

By Chris Moss

For five decades Susana Baca has been performing plangent protest songs in the name of South America’s marginalised peoples, the poor and the planet. On the eve of the release of her latest album, Palabras Urgentes, the Afro-Peruvian diva talks to Chris Moss

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