Mexico’s Susana Harp joins the IICA campaign in tribute to food chain workers

Mexico City, 11 June 2020 (IICA). Mexican singer and senator Susana Harp has joined the campaign of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) to salute farmers and food chain workers whose daily efforts are ensuring the production, transportation, marketing and supply of food during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Originally from Oaxaca, Harp is a well-known singer of traditional music in indigenous languages such as Zapotec, Mixtec, Náhuatl and Mayan, among others. She also performs songs by other Mexican composers that fuse the traditional with the modern.

She has recorded pieces with musicians such as the tenor, Fernando de la Mora; flautist, Horacio Franco; pianist, Héctor Infanzón, saxophonist, Miguel Ángel Samperio; and the harpist, Andrés Alfonso Vergara, who have assisted her to raise funds to provide quality education for Oaxacan children and adolescents, to discourage them from leaving their communities at an early age.

IICA’s campaign has brought together renowned artists from different countries in the hemisphere, who are selflessly participating in the POPULAR MUSIC TRIBUTE TO THOSE WHO WORK DAY TO DAY TO PUT FOOD ON OUR TABLES.

Gustavo Santaolalla, João Bosco, 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, Los Folkloristas, Nano Stern, Ana Prada & Pata Kramer, Adrián Goizueta and Larbanois & Carrero are just some of the performers who have selflessly and generously joined the IICA campaign.

Watch Susana Harp’s performance here:

Several organizations in different countries have taken part in the tribute organized by IICA. In Argentina, it 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

#PORALIMENTOSEMNOSSAMESA

#THANKS

#HEROESANDHEROINES

#FORFOODONOURTABLES

More information:
Institutional Communication Division, IICA. 
comunicacion.institucional@iica.int