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The Frente Revolucionario de Cantores (in English: Revolutionary Singers Front) '''Lloviznando Cantos''' is a [[Venezuela]] -based artists collective founded in 2001. The collective is a contemporary heir to the historical traditions of the [[Nueva Canción]] movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Their stated reason for being is to consolidate and bring to the masses political and social message of solidarity as conceived in the "[[Bolivarian Revolution|socialist revolution]]" promoted by former Venezuelan president [[Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Lloviznando Cantos: “Somos"Somos un movimiento que enfrenta con poesía a los detractores de la revolución”revolución"|url=http://www.noticias24.com/venezuela/noticia/131533/la-agrupacion-lloviznando-cantos-habla-sobre-su-trabajo-durante-la-campana-presidencial/|website=noticias24.com|publisher=noticias24.com|accessdate=18 June 2015}}</ref>

The collective has played in places such as Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Ecuador, Panama, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, as well as in Europe. They have been usually sponsored by social and community grassroots organizations and organizations in solidarity with the current Venezuelan government.

As heirs of the Nueva Canción movement, they are performing what they call the [["Canción Socialista]]" (Socialist Song).

*[http://www.lloviznandocantos.org/ Official Website of Lloviznando Cantos]{{esin iconlang|es}}

[[Category:Political music groups]]