Martina Portocarrero Explained

Martina Portocarrero
Birth Name:Leonila Martina Portocarrero Ramos
Birth Date:29 September 1949
Birth Place:Nazca, Peru
Death Place:Lausanne, Switzerland

Martina Portocarrero (29 September 1949 – 22 April 2022) was a Peruvian folk singer, cultural researcher, and politician. She was an interpreter of huaynos and mulizas, as well as a researcher of Andean culture. Portocarrero was posthumously honored by the Peruvian government as Spanish; Castilian: Personalidad Meritoria de la Cultura (Meritorious Personality of Culture). During her political career, she ran unsuccessfully for various positions as a member of FREPAP, Broad Front, and Free Peru.

Biography

Leonila Martina Portocarrero Ramos was born in Nazca, Peru, on 29 September 1949.[1]

In 1970, she entered the in Lima. She studied at the Escuela de Nacional de Arte Dramático, as well as at the National University of San Marcos, but it was in Switzerland where she graduated from university as an educator.

In the 1908s, she began her career as a soloist, performing huaynos throughout Peru. Around 1984, she traveled to Europe, introducing Latin American music in European festivals. In 1986, she settled in Switzerland and continued spreading the folklore and traditional art of Peru. Her interpretation of the Ayacucho huayno song "", composed by Ricardo Dolorier, which refers to the Huanta student rebellion of 1969, was well known.[2]

Portocarrero was twice a pre-candidate for the presidency of the Republic, in 2001 for FREPAP, withdrawing before the election, and in 2016, for Broad Front,[3] being defeated in the internal elections by the anthropologist Verónika Mendoza. In 2006, Portocarrero was a candidate for mayor of Lima for the Union for Peru party, obtaining only 4.63% of the votes. In 2016 and 2020, Portocarrero ran for Congress for the Broad Front party. In 2021, she ran with the political party Free Peru but was excluded by the National Jury of Elections. Portocarrero formed her own political group, the Spanish; Castilian: Movimiento Político Cultural Mundo Verde. She was touted as a possible (Minister of Culture) during the beginning of the governments of Ollanta Humala[4] and Pedro Castillo.[5]

Martina Portocarrero died on 22 April 2022, in Lausanne, Switzerland,[6] as a result of lung cancer.[7] In May 2022, the Peruvian government posthumously awarded her the recognition of Meritorious Personality of Culture.[8]

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Notes and References

  1. News: . Distinguen póstumamente como Personalidad Meritoria de la Cultura a Martina Portocarrero . 18 February 2023 . andina.pe . 4 May 2022 . es.
  2. News: . Murió Martina Portocarrero, cantante de "Flor de Retama", tras batallar contra el cáncer de pulmón . 18 February 2023 . infobae . es-ES.
  3. News: . Presidenciales 2016: siete precandidatos se inscriben en el Frente Amplio . 18 February 2023 . 21 August 2015 . andina.pe . es.
  4. News: . Bases de Gana Perú postulan a Martina Portocarrero como Ministra de Cultura . 18 February 2023 . RPP . 15 July 2011 . es.
  5. News: . Martina Portocarrero y su desazón por no ser la ministra de Cultura: "Creo que hice méritos" . video . 18 February 2023 . El Bocón . 7 October 2021 . es.
  6. Web site: Martina Portocarrero, 40 años . Péruviens en Suisse . 18 February 2023 . es.
  7. News: . Martina Portocarrero, intérprete de "Flor de retama", muere tras luchar contra el cáncer de pulmón . 18 February 2023 . larepublica.pe . 24 April 2022 . es.
  8. News: . Martina Portocarrero: cantante folclórica es declarada como "Personalidad Meritoria de la Cultura" . 4 May 2022 . 18 February 2023 . larepublica.pe . es.