25 Facts About Facundo Cabral

Facundo Cabral was an Argentine singer, songwriter and philosopher.

Facundo Cabral was best known as the composer of "No soy de aqui ni soy de alla", "Pobrecito mi Patron", and many other compositions.

Facundo Cabral's songs have been covered by multiple Spanish language performers such as Jorge Cafrune, Alberto Cortez, Juan Luis Guerra, and Joan Manuel Serrat.

Facundo Cabral was popular throughout Latin America in his lifetime and still enjoys a sizeable posthumous legacy throughout the continent.

Facundo Cabral was born Rodolfo Enrique Cabral Caminas in the Argentine city of La Plata, one of seven children to an impoverished and illiterate mother.

Facundo Cabral's father abandoned the family shortly before Facundo was born, and they wouldn't meet until Facundo was 46 years old.

The young Facundo Cabral was mute, unable to talk until the age of nine.

Facundo Cabral performed in over 165 countries, with his works translated into many languages.

Facundo Cabral was nearly blind and crippled at the time of his death, and was a bone cancer survivor as well, having nearly died from it decades before his death.

Facundo Cabral gave his testimony of life to the world in songs, poems and in interviews.

Facundo Cabral expressed that his spiritual views were influenced by a variety of figures, including Jesus, Laozi, Zhuang Zhou, Rajneesh, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Gautama Buddha, Schopenhauer, John the Baptist, Francis of Assisi, Gandhi and Mother Teresa.

Facundo Cabral preached quantum mysticism and the subjugation of the ego.

Facundo Cabral had admiration for the writings of Jorge Luis Borges and of Walt Whitman.

Facundo Cabral used to describe himself as "violently pacifist", and as a "first-class homeless person".

Facundo Cabral was shot and killed during a tour in Guatemala City while en route to La Aurora International Airport on July 9,2011.

Facundo Cabral had left a hotel in the west of Guatemala City, after giving a concert the previous evening in Quetzaltenango, and was headed to the airport when gunmen attacked his vehicle, a white Range Rover Sport, hitting him with at least eight bullets.

Facundo Cabral was with his agent David Llanos and Henry Farinas, who were wounded.

Facundo Cabral was accompanied by a second vehicle carrying bodyguards, but they couldn't protect the singer's vehicle from the bullets.

Facundo Cabral was riding in an SUV that tried to flee the attackers by driving into a fire station.

Facundo Cabral's body was flown to Argentina from Guatemala on July 12,2011, on a Mexican Air Force jet.

Facundo Cabral had said that was all he needed for his nearly constant singing tours.

Facundo Cabral's coffin was displayed for the public in the Ateneo theater, the same Buenos Aires theater where he last performed in his native Argentina.

The widow and family of Facundo Cabral gave a statement to reporters at the Ateneo theater, which expressed "thanks to the huge amount of media around the world by the respectful coverage" of his death.

Facundo Cabral's body was taken to a cemetery 32 kilometers north of Buenos Aires for cremation at an intimate private ceremony with just family and close friends in attendance.

Argentine singer and poet Alberto Cortez, who lives in Madrid, was devastated by the assassination of Facundo Cabral, who shared a "great friendship" with Facundo Cabral.