Pocha Lamadrid
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17 April 1945
Pocha Lamadrid | |
|---|---|
| Born | María Magdalena Lamadrid 17 April 1945 |
| Died | 27 September 2021 (aged 76) Ciudad Evita, Argentina |
| Occupation | activist |
| Known for | antiracism, Afro-Argentine activism |
María Magdalena "Pocha" Lamadrid (17 April 1945 – 27 September 2021) was an Afro-Argentine activist and campaigner. She was the founder of the NGO África Vive, and was a pioneer activist of the Afro-Argentine community.[1][2]
Lamadrid was born on 17 April 1945.[3] She was a fifth-generation Afro-Argentine, a descendant of African slaves brought over to the Río de la Plata during Spanish colonial rule.[4] Her great-great-grandfather was a freedman who had served for Gregorio Aráoz de Lamadrid, from whom he took his name as it was the custom for freed slaves in early 19th-century Argentina.[5]
In the 1950s and 1960s, she formed part of the music group Las Mulatas de Ébano ("the Ebony Mulattas"), founded by her aunt, Tina Lamadrid. The group played music with "Afro influences".[6] Later in life, once she had "grown too old, too fat" for showbusiness, she worked as a housekeeper.[3][7]