GODOY (Mejía Godoy)

GODOY (Mejía Godoy)

Composer: Carlos Mejía Godoy
Published in 3 hymnals


Composer: Carlos Mejía Godoy

Carlos Mejía Godoy (born June 27, 1943) is a Nicaraguan musician, composer and singer. He was born in Somoto, Madriz. Son of Carlos Mejía Fajardo and María Elsa Godoy, his brother Luis Enrique Mejía Godoy, three years younger than he is, is also an acclaimed and much-loved musician. Carlos and Luis Enrique were pivotal in the New Song Movement in Central America beginning in the 1970s. Many of his songs, performed with his band los de Palacagüina, became associated with the Sandinista movement as songs of the workers and revolutionaries. He even composed a Mass for the working class, the Misa Campesina Nicaragüense. Many of his songs during the late 1970s gave instructions on how to use, assemble, and disassemble the rifles people… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: GODOY (Mejía Godoy)
Composer: Carlos Mejía Godoy
Meter: Irregular
Incipit: 51554 32557 56545
Key: G Major or modal
Source: Misa Campesina Nicaragüense

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Instances

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El Himnario #387

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El Himnario Presbiteriano #387

Fiesta Jubilosa #53

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