22 Facts About Patricio Manns

Ivan Patricio Eugenio Manns de Folliot, better known as Patricio Manns was a Chilean singer-songwriter, composer, author, poet, novelist, essayist, journalist and writer.

Patricio Manns is known for his 1965 song "Arriba en la Cordillera".

Patricio Manns was born in the rural town of Nacimiento, in central Chile, on 3 August 1937.

Patricio Manns is the son of a primary school teacher of French descent and an agricultural engineer of Swiss German descent.

Patricio Manns studied in the city of Angol, at the current Enrique Ballacey Cottereau Bicentennial High School of Excellence.

Patricio Manns was initiated in the field of music when he composed Bandido in 1959, which was recorded in Argentina in 1962 by the folk group Los Travadores del Norte and in Chile by Los Cuatro Cuartos.

Patricio Manns was a founding member of the New Chilean Song, with Rolando Alarcon and the Parras and of the Pena of Carmen 340, Victor Jara joined the Pena and the movement a few months later.

Patricio Manns would go on to actively participate in the extensive production of a series of travelling shows called Chile Rie y Canta which were organized throughout Chile by Rene Largo Farias.

Late in 1973, Patricio Manns settled in Cuba where he began a life in exile that was to last decades.

Patricio Manns collaborated with Humberto Solas with the script for the movie La Cantata de Chile and wrote the text for the musical work of Leo Brouwer which the movie was named after.

From exile Patricio Manns launched his "struggle against the Pinochet dictatorship" becoming a spokesman of the Chilean resistance.

Patricio Manns recorded it in Rome accompanied by Inti-Illimani in 1985 and was released in 1986 in Europe.

Patricio Manns had previously recorded in Rome with them Con la Razon y la Fuerza in early 1980.

Patricio Manns participated in Inti-Illimani's DVD Lugares Comunes recorded live in the Estadio Nacional de Chile.

Patricio Manns recorded a CD with Mexican rancheras and corridos for a musical production of the Banco del Estado.

Patricio Manns recorded a CD of ballads and boleros titled Porque Te Ame which was highly received in countries like Mexico and Peru.

Patricio Manns lived in Central Chile where he has focused on the development of his literary career while he continued performing and creating music.

Patricio Manns died of heart failure at the Clinica Bupa de Renaca in Vina del Mar on 25 September 2021, at the age of 84.

Patricio Manns is one of the most prolific writers in Chile.

The 1975 movie Letters from Marusia directed by Miguel Littin was based on a novel by the same name that Patricio Manns published in 1974.

Patricio Manns is broadly recognized for his multi-faceted prolific career as a musician and literary figure.

Patricio Manns is a founder of the movement of neo-folkloric popular music that emerged in Chile in the 1960s and constituted a fundamental nexus between the Nueva Cancion Chilena movement and more current musical developments.