Carlos Mejía Godoy (born June 27, 1943) is a

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n musician (accordion), 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. They were both honored with Nicaragua's highest cultural distinction, the Order of

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Biography

Carlos started his career as 'Corporito' on the radio station 'Radio Corporacion', where he would daily compose songs that would rain ridicule and scorn on all politicians and political parties. Many of his songs, performed with his band ''los de Palacagüina'', became associated with the

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movement as songs of the workers and revolutionaries. He even composed a

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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 were capturing from dictator Somoza's National Guard during street battles. One of his biggest achievements of his career as a songwriter came in 1977 when the song ''Quincho Barrilete'' (Quincho, the boy of the little barrel), composed by himself and performed by Eduardo Gonzalez won the sixth edition of the