Matador fabulosos cadillacs victor jara biography
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Matador (Los Fabulosos Cadillacs song)
Song by Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
"Matador" or "El matador" (Spanish for "Killer") is a song written by Flavio Cianciarulo, bass player of Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, a rock band from Argentina.
Matador fabulosos cadillacs victor jara biography
It was first released in their 1993 album Vasos Vacíos and it is considered their signature song since the song topped the charts all across Hispanic America.
Alongside "Mal Bicho", "Manuel Santillan, El León" and "Desapariciones" (a cover of Rubén Blades' song), "El Matador" is one of the Cadillacs' several thematic songs about the oppression and forced disappearances during the years of military dictatorship across the Southern Cone, particularly Argentina's last civil-military dictatorship (1976–1983).
The song narrates the story of a revolutionary (known as "El Matador") who is being hunted down by pro-dictatorship law enforcement agents, and the narrative is told from the revolutionary's POV. The song also references Víctor Jara, a Chilean f