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Peruvian singer-songwriter, Damaris, joins the IICA campaign in tribute to food chain workers

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The renowned Peruvian artist has joined IICA’s campaign to heighten political and social awareness about those who are guaranteeing the food supply amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.

Damaris ganó en el 2008 la competencia folclórica del Festival Internacional de la Canción Viña del Mar por su creación Tusuykusun, y en ese mismo año fue nominada al Grammy Latino en la categoría álbum folclórico. Fotografía tomada de su perfil oficial de Facebook.

San Jose, 26 May 2020 (IICA). Peruvian singer and songwriter, Damaris Mallma Porras, has joined the campaign of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) to pay tribute to farmers and agrifood chain workers, whose daily toil is ensuring the production, transportation, marketing and supply of food amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.

In 2008, Damaris won the folklore competition of the Viña del Mar International Song Festival for her creation, Tusuykusun (which is included in her collaboration with IICA). In that same year she received a Latin Grammy nomination in the Folk Album category.

The IICA initiative has brought together the work of renowned artists from various countries in the hemisphere, who have selflessly contributed to the POPULAR MUSIC TRIBUTE TO THOSE WHO WORK DAY TO DAY TO PUT FOOD ON OUR TABLES.

The IICA campaign is seeking to direct greater political and social attention to those who keep the agroindustrial chain functioning, as well as to the farmers who are guaranteeing our food supply at a time when the Covid-19 pandemic is challenging the world.

Gustavo Grobocopatel, Gustavo Santaolalla, Gilberto Gil, León Gieco, Carlinhos Brown, Luis Enrique Mejía Godoy, Mart’nália, Maria Luiza Jobim, Teresa Parodi, Soledad Villamil, Víctor Heredia, Hilda Lizarazu, Paulo Miklos, Lidia Borda, La Charo (Tonolec), Willy Piancioli (Los Tipitos), Agustín Ronconi (Arbolito), Alejandro Davio (Mundo Alas), Anabella Zoch, Peteco Carabajal, Dolores Solá, Acho Estol (La Chicana), Guadalupe Urbina, Lila Downs, Nano Stern, Ana Prada and Pata Kramer are just some of the performers who have selflessly and generously contributed to the IICA campaign.

 

 

 

The tribute by Damaris can be viewed here:

Several organizations in different countries have taken part in the tribute organized by IICA. In Argentina, the tribute has received the backing of the country’s Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries; the Ministry of Culture of the Nation; the Ministry of Social Development; the anti-hunger program – Plan Argentina contra el Hambre; the Secretariat of Media and Public Communication; the public broadcast entity, Contenidos Públicos Sociedad del Estado and the arts foundation, Fondo Nacional de las Artes.

Meanwhile, in Brazil, UNESCO Brazil and the Brazilian Association of Supermarkets (ABRAS) have both endorsed and become a part of this campaign.

The concert by the Argentinian performers who have joined this campaign can be accessed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT1CxNALDus. The songs contributed by the rest of the artists are also available on IICA’s YouTube channel.

IICA will continue to publish the contributions of the artists participating in the campaign on all its digital platforms and on those of its partners in this initiative, using the following hashtags on social media:

 

#GRACIAS

#HEROESYHEROINAS

#PORLOSALIMENTOSENNUESTRAMESA

#OBRIGADO #OBRIGADA

#HERÓISEHEROÍNAS

#THANKS

#HEROESANDHEROINES

#FORFOODONOURTABLES 

More information:

Institutional Communication Division

comunicacion.institucional@iica.int

 

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