- In 1992 she was honored as "Ciudadano Ilustre de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires" ("Illustrious Citizen of the City of Buenos Aires").
- She was a leading figure in the "nueva cancion" musical movement of the 1960s and 1970s, which blended traditional folk music with politically-charged lyrics about government brutality and the poor.
- Her signature song, "Gracias a la Vida" (Thanks to Life) was written by Chilean songwriter Violeta Parra.
- She won a local radio station's amateur talent contest when she was 15.
- She was of mixed Amerindian and French ancestry. She grew up in a relatively desolate area, closer to Bolivia than to Buenos Aires.
- N 1995, Konex Foundation from Argentina granted her the Diamond Konex Award, one of the most prestigious awards in Argentina, as the most important personality in the Popular Music of her country in the last decade.
- At a concert in La Plata in 1979, Sosa was searched and arrested on stage, along with all those attending the concert. Their release came about through international intervention. Banned in her own country, she moved to Paris and then to Madrid.
- Her parents were Peronists, although they never registered in the party, and she started her career as a singer for the Peronist Party in Provincia Tucuman under the name Gladys Osorio.
- She won the Premio Gardel in 2000, the main musical award in Argentina.
- Her career spanned four decades and she was the recipient of six Latin Grammy awards (2000, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2011), including a Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004 and two posthumous Latin Grammy Award for Best Folk Album in 2009 and 2011.
- Sosa returned to Argentina from her exile in Europe in 1982.
- Sosa was the former co-chair of the Earth Charter International Commission.
- She served as an ambassador for UNICEF.
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