Victor Heredia

At an early stage Víctor Heredia, already identified as a singer and songwriter, chose to undertake formal music training and mastered both piano and guitar. Before long the budding performer began appearing on a range of radio broadcasts, and in 1967 he captured the Revelación Juvenil folk festival with the song “Para Cobrar Altura.” His composition “El Viejo Matias” soon delivered his first major hit, prompting the 1968 RCA release Gritando Esperanzas. Throughout the 1970s he received regular invitations to major showcases, among them Peru’s Agua Dulce Festival and Chile’s Viña del Mar Festival. In 1984 he joined Silvio Rodríguez and Pablo Milanés onstage at Buenos Aires’ Obras Sanitarias, and four years later he made his initial appearance at New York’s Carnegie Hall alongside Mercedes Sosa.