Amparo Ochoa
- Musician
Sinaloan singer-songwriter and rural schoolteacher, a central figure of Latin American Nueva Canción. Born in Costa Rica, in the municipality of Culiacán, in 1946.
Personal details
- Born
- September 29, 1946
- Birthplace
- Costa Rica
- Died
- February 7, 1994
- Place of death
- Culiacán Rosales
Biography
María Amparo Ochoa Castaños was born on 29 September 1946 in the locality of Costa Rica, in the municipality of Culiacán, Sinaloa. She trained as a rural schoolteacher and later studied at UNAM’s National School of Music.
From 1971 she became part of the Nueva Canción movement, performing and writing songs with strong social content addressing poverty, indigenous rights and women’s rights. She recorded seventeen studio albums and toured France, Spain, Germany, Italy, the United States and Latin America.
Among her best-known songs are Mi pueblo, Caminito de Contreras and Yo me muero donde quiera. She died on 7 February 1994 in Culiacán, Sinaloa, of stomach cancer.
Related topics
- Music
Sources and data
The information on this page comes from public sources.
- Amparo Ochoa — Artistas México — Secretaría de Cultura
- Difunde Congreso cortometraje sobre vida y obra de Amparo Ochoa — Gobierno del Estado de Sinaloa
- Amparo Ochoa la de Culiacán — Noroeste