Meet David Tokar - PAYADOR from San Vicente.
We tell you the story of David Tokar: Argentine Payador
Payador from San Vicente, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
At age 9, he was already singing his first milongas.
At 17, he performed his first payada in public.
To date, he has toured countless stages throughout the country (including Luna Park and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires) and abroad with different shows:
Spain, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile,
Paraguay, Colombia, Italy, among others.
Together with José Curbelo, Marta Suint, Liliana Salvat, and Luis
Genaro, they wrote the book "Payadores argentinos y uruguayos" (Argentine and Uruguayan Payadores), published in Ronda, Spain.
He has published five musical works as a soloist
and participated in nine others as a guest artist.
He is a member of the group Patria Joven, which brings together six
young artists, with two albums released and countless performances nationwide.
He participates in the Payadores y Raperos project, with which he has performed at the Festival de la Palabra y Raíz (Tecnópolis) and Verano de Emociones, among many other events.
As a social event, he brought payada to low-income neighborhoods, slums, prisons, hospitals, nursing homes, schools, and universities.
He was the driving force behind the project that declared payada as an intangible cultural heritage of Mercosur.
He was the coordinator of the 1% Meeting of Payadores of Mercosur and is the organizer of the International Meeting of Payadores of San Vicente, now in its tenth edition, and of the Federal Competition of Payadores Santo Vega, together with Emanuel Gabotto (two editions).
He hosts the radio program "Tierra de Payadores" on Guarany Radio and co-hosts the program "Nuestras Voces Payadoras" (Our Voices of Payadores) with Emanuel Gabotto (Radio Nacional Folclórica FM 98.7).
He was declared an Outstanding Personality of the City of San Vicente.