Singers of Latin American popular and protest music, including Cuban salsa and guaracha, and the nueva canción or nuevo cancionero movement that joined folk roots to social songs across South America from the 1960s. A performer belongs here when the cited article or its infobox names salsa, guaracha or the nuevo cancionero movement. It excludes tango, fado and bossa nova singers, who have their own group, and North American soul or rock performers.
Salsa and Nueva Canción Singers
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Wikipedia: Celia Cruz
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Cruz rose to fame in Cuba during the 1950s as a singer of guarachas, earning the nickname La Guarachera de Cuba.
Wikipedia: Mercedes Sosa
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With her roots in Argentine folk music, Sosa became one of the preeminent exponents of the nuevo cancionero ('new songbook') movement.
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