Óscar Chávez

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Mar 20, 1935 (90 years old)
Death date
May 30, 2020

Óscar Chávez

Known For

Amparo Ochoa: My Barz Broke out
1h 25m
Movie 2021

Amparo Ochoa: My Barz Broke out

Supported by current images and national and international archives, this documentary narrates the life of the singer Amparo Ochoa, who learned music from her father, in Sinaloa. His passion for teaching, the decision to live in Mexico City, his indispensable role in the Mexican scene of the seventies and eighties, as well as his constant criticism of the government, are narrated by family and friends, such as Óscar Chávez, Gabino Palomares and Mercedes Sosa, who speak of the consolidation of the artist as a fundamental figure of Mexican popular song and feminist militancy.

The Forbidden Chant of Mexico '68...50 Years After
1h 5m
Movie 2019

The Forbidden Chant of Mexico '68...50 Years After

50 years after the Mexican Student Movement of 1968, this documentary elaborates on how singing and chants played a significant part during the marches.

The Animals 1850 - 1950
0h 27m
Movie 1995

The Animals 1850 - 1950

A compilation of 20 Mexican children's song, composed from 1850 to 1950, ranging from lyrical to surrealist, illustrated with digital animation.

Desperate
1h 10m
Movie 1987

Desperate

In this thinly-veiled, though uncredited, new version of Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not," here a prospective series pilot, an ex-sailor living in Key West, chartering out boats and struggling to forget his past, is lured into a dangerous rendezvous with Cuban gunrunners.

Biography

Óscar Chávez Fernández (20 March 1935 – 30 April 2020), better known simply as Óscar Chávez, was a Mexican singer, songwriter and actor. He was the major proponent of the Nueva Trova movement in Mexico in the 1960s and 1970s.

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