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Victor Payan and the Broken Dreamers
there's a lot of rock and roll
be-bop wishing in the world
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Urban Chicano Protest Folk Love Songs and More
Victor Payan
Victor Payan is a writer, humorist, poet and songwriter whose works combine the everyman quality of 1930s dustbowl ballads with the immediacy of Mexican corridos and a punk satirical sensibility. Never one to flinch from injustice, he writes songs about migrant workers, political prisoners, globalization and the spirit of popular revolution. He is also a gifted lyrical songwriter, and his verses about love, loss and drinking are both catchy and well-crafted. An original member of the Taco Shop Poets, Victor left the group to pursue songwriting. He has since performed his urban Chicano folksongs at taco shops, Mexican restaurants and performance spaces in San Diego, San Ysidro, Los Angeles, Salinas, San Francisco, Berkeley, Austin, San Antonio and other assorted small towns along the California freeway system.