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Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio

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.

Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio
Background information
Born
José Antonio Sánchez Ferlosio

(1940-04-08)8 April 1940
Madrid, Spain
Died30 June 2003(2003-06-30) (aged 63)
Madrid, Spain
GenresSpanish folk
OccupationSinger-songwriter
InstrumentsVoice, classical guitar
Years active1961–2003

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. 1 2 3 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. 1 2 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.

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