Fulgencio Aquino

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Fulgencio Aquino
Born	1915 Sabaneta, Miranda state, Venezuela
Died	July 25, 1994 Caracas, Venezuela

Fulgencio Aquino, was born in Sabaneta, Miranda state, in 1915, he was a Venezuelan musician and popular composer. Author of the song El gato enmochilao. From very young he had to carry out diverse works such as carpenter, alpalgatero, coal miner and retailer, who always shared with his passion by music.

He distinguished like composer and great executant of the Arpa Tuyera (a Venezuelan harp), reason why he was knew like the king the Arpa Tuyera and the father of that harp, instrument that began to touch since the 10 years of age, next to his brother Melquíades, also musician, the Sabaneta small village. He did his first public presentation 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 tuyero blow, pajarillo, marisela, la refalosa, la revuelta, important musical sorts of the joropo mirandino and imposed a particular style of interpretation.

In 1950, he knows the singer, maraquero and tuyero composer Margarito Aristiguieta, known like the Turpial Mirandino, with that forms a pair that becomes famous inside and abroad of the country.

For 1992, with 67 years of artistic life, Fulgencio Aquino had recorded 6 commercial discs and other 6 that have produced diverse companies of the country. According to expressed by the own Aquino, El gato enmochilao, most well-known of his compositions, “she is the one that has been listened to more not because is the best one, but because she is the one that has more pleased in the public”. Like recognition to his important trajectory, he received numerous prizes. Aquino contributed to disclose joropo tuyero in schools, grammar schools, and seats of Venezuela, which he represented in Jamaica, Barbados, Puerto Rico, Panama, Ecuador and Brazil. The July 19 of 1992, he carried out in 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 dies in Caracas, July 25, 1994.

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• Venezuela
• Venezuelan music

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