''¡El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido!'' (The people united will never be defeated!) is a music album released by the Chilean folk group

Quilapayún Quilapayún () are a folk music group from Chile and among the longest lasting and most influential ambassadors of the ''Nueva canción, Nueva Canción Chilena'' movement and genre. Formed during the mid-1960s, the group became inseparable with t ...

in 1975.

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The album is representative of the material artists of the Nueva Canción Chilena released in exile after the military coup of September 11, 1973. It opens with a song in homage to the fallen socialist president

Salvador Allende Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens (26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973) was a Chilean socialist politician who served as the 28th president of Chile from 1970 until Death of Salvador Allende, his death in 1973 Chilean coup d'état, 1973. As a ...

and proceeds with a moving musical elegy to

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. There are instrumental

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pieces: ''‘Canción de la esperanza’'' composed by Eduardo Carrasco and a version of the traditional Bolivian piece ''‘Titicaca’''. ''‘El alma llena de banderas’'' a song

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dedicated to the murder of a young worker is included, as well as songs denouncing the violent military repression against an unarmed people. The most well known song of the album is

& Sergio Ortega’s ''¡ El pueblo unido jamás será vencido''!, originally composed as a march for the Popular Unity government; after the September 11, 1973 military coup it became the international anthem of the Chilean resistance. The song has been translated into a number of languages and has been heard in mass rallies, marches and

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all over the world: from students in

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, to migrant workers in

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, to pro-unification rallies in

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. In 2004 the song inspired '' Razom nas bahato, nas ne podolaty'' by

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, which became the unofficial anthem of the

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. Music and songs are a testament to the spirit of hope and rebellion during the darkest period of the Pinochet dictatorship.

Track listing

#“Compañero Presidente" ( Eduardo Carrasco –

) #“Elegía al Che Guevara”/

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for

( Eduardo Carrasco) #“Canción de la esperanza”/Song of Hope (Instrumental) (Eduardo Carrasco) #“El rojo gota a gota irá creciendo" /The red will slowly grow ( Eduardo Carrasco - Horacio Salinas) #"Chacarilla" (Popular) #“El alma llena de banderas”/Our hearts are full of banners (

Víctor Jara Víctor Lidio Jara Martínez (; 28 September 1932 – 16 September 1973) was a Chilean teacher, theatre director, theater director, poet, singer-songwriter and PCCh, Communist political activist. He developed Chilean theater by directing a bro ...

) #" Titicaca”/Lake Titicaca (Popular) #“Las luchas: Canción V La represión/Song 5 from ‘Las Lucha’This song which appears on some releases peculiarly with the same title as the proceeding song, is another version of a song from another work of Sergio Ortega called ''La Frague''. The song appears as the fifth song of ‘Las Luchas’. ( Sergio Ortega) #“La represión/The repression (P. Rojas - Jaime Soto) #“ El pueblo unido jamás será vencido”/The people united will never be defeated (

– Sergio Ortega)

Personnel

* Eduardo Carrasco *Carlos Quezada *

Willy Oddó Guillermo Oddó Parraguez (October 14, 1943 – November 7, 1991), better knolwn as Willy Oddó, was a Chilean musician and engineer known as a leading vocalist in the Chilean folk music ensemble, Quilapayún between 1967 and 1987. Biography He ...

*Hernán Gómez * Rodolfo Parada *Rubén escudero *Hugo Lagos.

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