Manifiesto: Se Siente
Extracted from the work Avant-garde 20|XX, this song recognizes the worlds that form the marvelous pluriverse that is Latin America. The cry of the flute inspires the thunder of the drums that with their beating invoke the rising sun… it’s there when the fire of the people grows with strength and the village grows as they say the Manifiesto: Se Siente! |
Frida Kahlo
Author of about 200 works, Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderón was a Mexican painter known as Frida Kahlo. Her works were mainly self-portraits, in which she projected her difficulties in surviving. The feminist movement of the 1970s led to renewed interest in her life and her work. Kahlo is seen by many as an icon of female creativity.
Manuel Elkin Patarroyo
Distinguished worldwide with awards such as the Prince of Asturias for Scientific and Technical Research in 1994 and the Robert Koch in 1994, among others, Manuel Elkin Patarroyo is a Colombian immunologist doctor, founder of the Institute of Immunology of Colombia, and discoverer of the first vaccine against malaria.
Edson Arantes do Nascimento
Titled “Best Athlete of the Twentieth Century” by the International Olympic Committee in 1999, “Best Footballer of the Twentieth Century” by FIFA in 2000, Knight of Honor of the British Empire in 1997, and recipient of the International Peace Prize in 1978, Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pelé, is a former Brazilian soccer player, singer, actor, writer, and ambassador recognized by many specialists and fans as the best soccer player in history.
Roberto Gomez Bolaños
Recipient of the Most Outstanding Career Award of the Ibero-American Television Waves Award, Roberto Gomez Bolaños, better known as Chespirito, was an influential thinker, comedian, writer and producer of Mexican television and one of the last Renaissance-menof these times.
Celina Maria Turchi Martelli
Selected by Nature magazine as one of the ten most notable people in the field of science in 2016 and by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of 2017, Celina Maria Turchi Martelli is a Brazilian epidemiologist who first associated the Zika virus and microcephaly in newborns during the disease outbreak in Brazil in 2015.
Carlos Gardel
One of the most important performers of world popular music in the first half of the twentieth century, Carlos Gardel was a singer, songwriter, and actor. He was the initiator and most active advocate of the tango genre, and is the genre’s best known representative in its history. The quality of his voice and his worldwide impact gave him the place of a myth.
Rigoberta Menchú Tum
Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 and the Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation in 1998, Rigoberta Menchú Tum is a Guatemalan indigenous leader, a member of the Maya Quiché group, a human rights defender, and a UNESCO goodwill ambassador. She has stood out for her leadership at the forefront of social struggles at the national and international level.
Milad Alexandre Mack Atala
Named on the list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2013 by Time magazine, Milad Alexandre Mack Atala, known as Alex Atala, is a Brazilian chef who runs the restaurant D.O.M. in São Paulo, which has two Michelin stars and was rated the fourth best restaurant in the world in 2012, according to the “World’s 50 Best Restaurants” list sponsored by S. Pellegrino and Acqua Panna.
Antonio Berni
Winner of the Grand Prize of Honor of the National Salon in 1943, the International Grand Prize of Engraving of the Venice Biennale in 1969, and appointed member of the National Academy of Fine Arts in 1979, with you, Antonio Berni, Argentine painter, engraver and muralist.
Gabriela Mistral
Distinguished with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1945 and the National Prize for Literature of Chile in 1951, Gabriela Mistral, pseudonym of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, was a Chilean poet, diplomat and pedagogue. She went on to participate in the reform of the Mexican educational system and is one of the most relevant figures in Chilean and Latin American literature.
Gabriela González
Recipient of the Edward A. Bouchet Prize in 2007 and Bruno Rossi Prize in 2017, Gabriela González is an Argentine physicist, researcher and teacher known mostly for her contributions in gravitational wave research and for being the spokesperson for the gravitational wave research project LIGO. She has more than 100 publications audited by peer review in this field.