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Tania Libertad
Tania Libertad de Souza Zuniga commonly known as Tania Libertad, is an outstanding singer. She was born in the small town of Za?a on the coast of Northern Peru on October 24, 1952. She has lived in Mexico since 1978.

Her father was Portuguese and worked as a policeman. Her father had very strong views on the roles of men and women in society.

Libertad is an independent artist and is not backed by a big record label. Mi padre era un se?or muy machista y bajo esa misma cultura nacieron y crecieron mis hermanos, as? que siempre me dec?an t? eres la mujer y t? tienes que limpiar la casa. Me hac?an sufrir bastante, said Libertad.

Her mother was of indigenous descent and was a nurse. Libertad was the only girl in a family of seven brothers. It was a very controlled environment, a very machismo environment.

I had one brother for each day of the week, plus a mother and father, said Libertad. Even though Ive tried to see it in a benevolent way, looking back, its hard. I was in a small town where male society was very rigid. Libertad first sang at the age of five in Chiclayo. I started to sing to at the age of five, performing songs in the vals style and boleros - Latin ballads - both accompanied by the caj?n, said Libertad. My family didnt know I was singing.

My father was in the military, my mother worked from seven in the morning till nine at nigh, said Libertad. My eight older brothers took care of me?you can just imagine how that was. Think of this, there I was, a little Peruvian girl in black patent leather shoes, singing an old Mexican song, La Historia de un Amor What in the world did I know about the story of love? But thats what I sang, my very first time on stage. I was five years old. Libertads father had her sing songs he had written to the women he loved - his mistresses, not his wife.

They were really terrible because they were all dedicated to women, other than my mother, and I had to sing them, says Libertad. Singing my fathers really terrible songs definitely made me aware of what good music was and what was bad music.

And his songs were really bad! But Libertad also listened to music on the radio copying the lyrics and by the age of eight, Libertad had a repertoire of 300 boleros. There were two important kinds of music to me, bolero and rock because theyll both be with us forever, said Libertad.

The bolero is an excellent genre to express all bad and good situations of love. Even when I was eight I would sing dramatic stories, a funny thing in a child, but I was always interested to sow deep emotions. By the time I was seven, I was singing in contests.

And by the time I was nine, I was making records in Peru, said Libertad. Libertad moved to Lima, the capital of Peru as a teenager. Libertads father became her manager and she began singing in nightclubs.

Soon Libertad had a contract with RCA Victor and her first national hit in Peru, La Contamanina. After ten successful recordings, Libertads father decided he wanted her to end her career and didnt want her to study after high school.

While Libertad pursued her musical career she convinced her father to let her study engineering in the university. Libertad began to cultivate friendships with performers who were involved with Afro-Peruvian music.

At that time, the nationalistic government encouraged the growth of Peruvian culture, and even established an Afro-Peruvian Ballet company, said Libertad.

But Libertad became uncomfortable singing in nightclubs because of the sexism and racism she encountered there and began singing music with a social conscience. Libertad began singing in universities and union halls. Libertads conflicts with her father continued.

When I was 20, I actually ran away from home, because my fathers thinking was completely different from mine, said Libertad. I needed to be taken seriously as a person and as a woman, and my father no longer wanted me to pursue my career as an artist, a singer. So I hid for two weeks with friends until my father accepted me as an adult with the rights of an adult.