Saturday, March 20, 2010

Salvador Cardenal ,QEPD

Two questions: 
  1. Who is Salvador Cardenal? 
  2. What does the "QEPD" after his name mean?
Salvador Cardenal was a Nicaraguan singer and songwriter, born in 1960. He often sang with his sister, Katia. They formed a group, Dúo Guardabarranco, 30 years ago.

He is very special to BECA because we use one of his songs, Dias del Amar, as the background music in our student profile videos. (See example here.)

I fell in love with the song the first moment I heard it, and it was always my intention to ask him one day if it was okay if we continued to use the song.

Sadly, Salvador Cardenal died earlier this month, after years of struggling with a rare blood disease.

I had the miraculous good fortune of seeing him perform three songs with his sister in February. I suspect it was his last public performance because he didn't look very well.

On that special Granada evening, the last song Katia and Salvador performed was Dias del Amar.

Salvador Cardenal, Que En Paz Descanse.
Salvador Cardenal, Rest in Peace.

3 comments:

  1. Hola Walter te deseo feliz semana Santa aunque me imagino vas estar lejos de tu familia pero si aqui estamos contigo , tu segunda familia adios y Diosito derrame muchas bendiciones sobre Ti.beca00161mario fonseca

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  2. hola walter a mi como a muchos nicaraguenses nos dolio la `partida de salvador cardenal el era un super adorador de la conservacion de la naturaleza y con su musica toco un tema muy importante en la actualidad pero lo de admirar en el fue que lo hizo cuando casi a nadie le interesaba este tema.
    beca00155 kiara

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  3. Hola Walter quiero agradecerle lo que esta haciendo por mis hermanos Nicaraguenses. Que Dios lo bendiga siempre y que pueda seguir ayudando a muchos estudiantes mas.

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