Fulgencio Aquino
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| Background information | |
| Also known as | King of the Tuyera Harp |
| Born | January 01 1915 Sabaneta, Miranda state, Venezuela |
| Died | July 21, 1994 Caracas, Venezuela |
| Genres | Central Joropo |
| Occupations | musician, harpist, composer |
| Instruments | Tuyera Harp |
| Years active | 1925–1992 |
Fulgencio Aquino (January 1, 1915 - July 21, 1994), was a Venezuelan musician and popular composer, the author of the song El gato enmochilao.
Aquino was born in Sabaneta, Miranda state. From a very early age he had to work for a living, in jobs such as carpenter, alpalgatero, coal miner and retailer, but always had a passion for music.
He was distinguished as a composer, and a great executant of the Tuyera Harp (a Venezuelan harp). He began to play it at the age of 10, with his brother Melquíades, also a musician, in the small village of Sabaneta. He gave his first public performance at the age of 14. In just a short time Fulgencio Aquino contributed to the diffusion of the Arpa Tuyera and the promotion of the golpe tuyero, pajarillo, marisela, la refalosa, la revuelta, important musical sorts of the joropo mirandino, and imposed a particular style of interpretation.
In 1950, knows the singer, executant of the maracas, and tuyero composer Margarito Aristiguieta and Manuel Maria Pacheco who is the singer and composer of the letter of "El Gato Enmochilado", from that, they conform a duets, and travel abroad Venezuela, presenting their native music.
For 1992, with 67 years of artistic career, Fulgencio Aquino recorded six commercial albums, and other six from diverse companies of Venezuela. According to the expressed by the own Aquino, El gato enmochilao, his most well-known compositions, “Is one of the compositions, that i have been listening more, not for being the best, is because its popularity”. Like recognition to his important trajectory, received numerous prizes. Aquino contributed to disclose joropo tuyero at the country, and represented Venezuela, in Jamaica, Barbados, Puerto Rico, Panama, Ecuador and Brazil. On July 19, 1992, was carried out at the Aula Magna of the Central University of Venezuela, a tribute to Aquino, where participated musical groups like: Serenata Guayanesa, Un Solo Pueblo and El Cuarteto, and the singers Gualberto Ibarreto, Mario Diaz, Pedro Castro and Vidal Colmenares, in addition to the infantile group La Zaranda. Fulgencio Aquino died in Guatire, Edo. Miranda.. It left his musical legacy his son Juan Jose Aquino www.youtube.com/juanjoseaquino
