Roger Waters Covers Victor Jara's "The Right To Live In Peace": Listen
Peace is one Roger Waters’ favorite subjects. He’s one the most outspoken celebrity supporters Palestine, he regularly speaks up for political causes. So it makes sense that he’d use his downtime — he had to postpone his upcoming tour until next year due to coronavirus — to do his own rendition a track all about peace.
Today, he’s releasing a cover “The Right To Live In Peace,” a song by Chilean activist and musician Victor Jara, who was tortured and killed during Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. “This is for the people Santiago & Quito & Jaffa & Rio & La Paz & New York & Baghdad & Budapest and everywhere else the man means us harm,” Waters said in his social media posts accompanying the video.
Waters has covered other songs by Jara during his live shows before.
Listen below.
I've re-recorded Victor Jara's great song "The Right to Live in Peace".
This is for the people Santiago & Quito & Jaffa & Rio & La Paz & New York & Baghdad & Budapest and everywhere else the man means us harm.
Love R.Watch full video and read lyrics: https://t.co/S6Uroyl9QM pic.twitter.com/HUQzkHKCIq
— Roger Waters (@rogerwaters) April 1, 2020