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James Dean Bradfield announces new album based on the life of Victor Jara

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Manic Street Preachers frontman James Dean Bradfield has announced a new solo album, ‘Even In Exile’. The record features lyrics telling the story of Chilean performer and activist Victor Jara, penned by playwright Patrick Jones, who is the brother of MSP bassist and lyricist Nicky Wire.Jara was influential in Chilean creative arts, starting out as a theatre director and later becoming a singer-songwriter.

It was as a musician that he became particularly politically active, heavily supporting Salvador Allende in his successful bid to become Chilean president in 1970.

When Augusto Pinochet led a US-backed coup d’état in 1973, Jara was arrested, tortured and murdered.“Sometime at the start of 2019, Patrick gave me a handful of poems each of.

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