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Roger Waters – “The Right To Live In Peace” (Victor Jara Cover)

VENICE, ITALY – SEPTEMBER 06: Roger Waters walks the red carpet ahead of the “Roger Waters Us + Them” screening during the 76th Venice Film Festival at Sala Grande on September 06, 2019 in Venice, Italy. (Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images)

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Peace is one of Roger Waters' favorite subjects. He's one of the most outspoken celebrity supporters of 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 of a track all about peace.

Today, he's releasing a cover of "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 of 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.

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https://twitter.com/rogerwaters/status/1245204917263962113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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