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Plaza Joaquín Edwards Bello and surroundings

It is a plaza located on Paseo Yugoslavo (Yugoslavo Boulevard) in Cerro Alegre (Alegre Hill), Valparaíso. The small square is named after Joaquín Edwards Bello, a writer who reflected the port’s values and lifestyle, as well as its traditions from early 20th century, and the magic of the Port of Valparaiso. Right beside the square is the Pasaje Apolo (Apolo ascent), which has stairs that go down to Urriola Street where some large houses can be appreciated, as well as the slope in which the houses on Cerro Concepción (Concepción Hill) are.

Also in this plaza, one can find “La Colombina” restaurant, which was the early manor in which Pascual Baburizza lived in the early 20s while he waited for the palace that he bought to be fully completed. Nowadays, the casona (large house) has been transformed into a pleasant tea house keeping architectural elements characteristic from that period, along with new incorporated elements always in Art Nouveau style.

External links

Guía de arquitectura de Valparaíso (Chile) Tomo II

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Osvaldo Rodriguez Musso, also known as Gitano Rodriguez (Valparaíso, Chile, July 26, 1943 – Bardolino, Italy, March 18, 1996), was a Chilean troubadour, poet, and essayist, creator of la peña of Valparaiso and author of the popular and well-known song dedicated to his hometown, the waltz "Valparaíso.

Childhood and Youth
Osvaldo Rodriguez Musso was born in pasaje Mutilla, Playa Ancha, in Valparaíso. He spent his first years of school at the Mackay School in Viña del Mar. He left the school for a while, due to emotional distress, picking it up later.

The social diversity he found in this institute, plus the one that existed in his hometown, helped him to overcome this change, which meant a rupture in his life. Safeguarded in one of his biggest passions, folklore, he won in the “First University Song Festival”, of Universidad de Chile, Valparaiso’s campus, with a collection of songs from Violeta Parra.

Osvaldo started at the same time to study architecture, but he had to abandon his career due to family issues. His college studies were linked then to the humanities field, and then he got a Bachelor’s degree in Literature at the Universidad de Chile, his only degree obtained in his home country.

Career Beginnings
In 1964 he became affiliated to the Sociedad de Escritores de Chile (Chilean Writer’s Society). In 1965 he was awarded the second prize, in the Fourth University Song Festival, carried out by the Universidad Católica de Santiago de Chile, with a song specifically given to him by Violeta Parra, named “La Pericona ha muerto”.

Since August 1965 he started doing concerts in several venues in Valparaíso and Santiago. However his moment of glory as an artist did not come until 1969, when he wrote the song that would immortalize his career: the waltz “Valparaiso”.

During the 70’s he had a lot of contact with his friends from Playa Ancha, Rolando Pereira, Payo Grondona, “Cocoliche Brito”, the brothers Sergio and Raúl Sanchez (Tiemponuevo), Sergio Badilla Castillo, Tuto Montero and Antonio Manríquez. It’s then when the nickname of “Gitano” was born, given by one of his friends due to his olive colored skin and his nomadic nature.

Since then his life was spent between music and the University of Valparaiso, working there as a graphic design workshop assistant. In the year 1970, he was appointed head of the Art and Technology career from that same university.

From the “Gitano’s” musical composition, is important to note the album “Tiempo de Vivir”, from 1972 which includes the waltz “Valparaiso” and the song “Ha llegado el tiempo de vivir”.

In 1973 he published the poem book “Estado de Emergencia”, time in which he had to go on exile.

Exile
During the Military Coup, he was persecuted due to his libertarian work. He had to hide for several days before he could get asylum in the Argentinian embassy in Santiago. Once abroad, after a short time in Buenos Aires, he moved to Prague (former Czechoslovakia).

Afterwards, he started a concert tour in Europe. In 1974 he was given the “Silver Medal of the Rostock Theater” in Germany thanks to the musical composition for the play “Margarita Naranjo”, based on a poem by Pablo Neruda.

In 1975 he joined the French “Society of Authors and Music Composers”. From 1976 until 1978 he studied in the École des Hautes Études in Paris, where he gave a lecture on Sociology of Literature, whit a thesis based on the novel “Coronación” by José Donoso. He was also appointed “Cultural Advisor” by the French-Latin-American center in France.

Afterwards, in 1978, he wrote another of his famous songs dedicated to Valparaiso, named “Canción a la Caleta El Membrillo”. In 1979 he studied in the Charles University of Prague’s Faculty of Philosophy and Writing. In 1981 he received the title of Graduate in Writing, and in 1986 he received a doctorate in the same discipline.

In France, 1984, he was distinguished with the “Charles Cross” prize, for best album of the year: The mémoire chantée by Régine Mellac. Based on a record, recorded live, in the Casino of Paris in October 10, 1983.

In 1986 he wrote the essay “La Nueva Canción Chilena, continuidad y reflejo”, which was edited in Habana. Thanks to this essay, he won the “Musicology” prize by the Casa de las Américas, in Cuba.

Discography

 * 1972 - Tiempo de vivir (Time to live)
 * 1976 - Les oiseaux sans mer (The birds without sea)

Live Albums

 * 1989 - Osvaldo Rodríguez en vivo

Singles

 * 1973 - Canción de cuna / Canto al trabajo voluntario

Colectivos

 * 1977 - Canto a la revolución de octubre
 * 1984 - La mémoire chantée de Régine Mellac
 * 1994 - Mi amor, Valparaíso
 * 2003 - Nueva Canción Chilena. Antología definitiva (posthumous)

Poetry

 * 1973 - Estado de emergencia
 * 1975 - Diario del doble exilio
 * 1994 - Cantos de extramuros (prologue by Julio Cortázar)

Prose

 * Con sus ojos de extraño mirar, cuentos y relatos
 * El día que me quieras, novela

Essays

 * Cantores que reflexionan, notas para una historia personal de la Nueva Canción Chilena

Articles

 * El sueño americano de Patricio Manns
 * La risa y los tambores de Gabriel Parra
 * Araucaria de Chile

Interviews

 * En torno a la casa de campo, a José Donoso
 * Eduardo Parra from Los Jaivas
 * Patricio Manns