Repertoire

Carlos Mejía Godoy was born in 1938 in Ocatal, Nicaragua, into a family that for generations has figured strongly in the cultural and intellectual life of the country. He wrote the song Cristo de Palacagina a 4 y solo in the last, oppressive years of the Somoza dynasty, at a time when the entire country was rising up to throw off the shackles of more than fifty years of a dictatorship. Two years later, the people of Nicaragua did triumph; but the song sings of a yet deeper triumph: Christ is born within us and around us when we join in the cosmic struggle to build a new world—one of justice, one of peace, one of love. But first, justice, without which neither peace nor love are possible.