Trying to find some solid artists and get into S.A or “latin” music.
Im not really looking for contemporary or salsa music but rather some good folky-ish heavy into acoustic guitar, singer-songwriter stuff.
What got me inspired was this song by Silvio Rodriquez, music in this vein is what im looking for
This is an amazing tune (cover)
Salud!
Soledad Bravo - my favorite is Cantos de Venezuela
I don’t know how to do that cool link thing you did with the text, so:
María Dolores Pradera; Chabuca Granda.
Both are very non-gender-specific, Granda was a singer/songwriter; Pradera sings material from all over Latin America as well as some material from Spain and Portugal.
Would you be interested in rancheras as well?
Dukette: write the words you want to show in the link, then highlight those words and then use the “insert a link” icon.
You should probably avoid Señor Coconut if you’re looking for anything vaguely traditional. I love it, but it’s a bit … modern 
Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society.
Ellen Cherry
My preference in South American music is Bossa Nova—the progenitor of the Samba.
Try Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes, Chico Buarque to name a few.
The essential Bossa tune that began it all is “Chega de Saudade,” or “No More Blues”
Also, listen to Elis Regina and Tom Jobim doing “Águas de Março”—“Waters of March”
More familiar to American ears is “Garota de Ipanema” or “Girl from Ipanema”
Another vote for Brazilian Anotnio Carlos Jobim. His song “Águas de Março” is considered the best Portugeuse song ever written.
And the version with Jobim and Elis Regina from 1974 is considered the gold standard to which all other recordings of that song are compared.
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I was listening to some other Brazilian music I have in my MP3 collection a few months ago when I found and “Easter egg” embedded in a very long MP3 I had always skipped before…
The main song finished, and after a long pause I heard Elis Regina begin to sing “É pau, é pedra, é o fim do caminho…”—the intro to Águas de Março—but the backing music was completely clean, with no reverb or other audio processing.
It became clear I was hearing one of the original tapes from the 1974 session.
And after a few verses, Jobim screwed up, singing her part instead of his, and they stopped and had a small dispute over who was suppose to sing when.
The remainder of the MP3 was additional clips from the very same recording session, where they kept making silly mistakes and joking around.
After hearing this behind-the-scenes version of the session, it is clear why she began laughing towards the end of the official released version. It wasn’t planned laughter, and it came spontaneously from the punchy atmosphere during the session.
I have no clue why this fun bit of tape found its way tacked on to Vivo Sonhando, but it did.
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I don’t know how well known they are, but I like Inka Wayra from Peru.