Magdalena Sánchez
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| Born | April 9, 1915 Puerto Cabello, Carabobo, Venezuela |
| Died | August 18, 2005 Caracas, Venezuela |
Nicknamed the queen of the Venezuelan song, Magdalena Sánchez was born in Puerto Cabello, Carabobo, April 9, 1915.
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[edit] Early career
Her first performances was in a radial fan program and deprived personal presentations. The first grouping with which she sang was with the Conjunto Cantaclaro, later would make with the Fernandez brothers , Vicente Flores and his Llaneros and with the pair Spin Guanipa , with these last ones in 1934, Magdalena sang Tangos and Boleros that were the sorts that were fashionable, also Guarachas songs and pasodobles with the Sonora Caracas.
[edit] Professional career
It is in 1936, at the age of 21, when truly her professional life like singer begins, in the radio station Ondas populares, where she gained five bolivars daily. In 1940 appears in the Broadcasting Caracas, today Radio Caracas Radio in a space lead by Edgar Anzola.
In 1948 she contracts marriage and she belongs to the establishment of Provensa, appears in the program a Star every Minute and the Carrousel of the Radio Libertador station. The success achieved in these programs served to her to obtain a contract in the Galerón Premiado by Radio Continental, is there where definitively she started like singer of Creole Music. In 1951, she interpreted the folk songs María Laya and the Caujaritos with Juan Vicente Torrealba with a great success. Other songs that would have the same answer on the public were: Barlovento, San Juan To'lo Tiene of Eduardo Serrano, Por el Camino of Jose Reyna, Canchunchu Dichoso of Luis Mariano Rivera, El Mango Verde of Fleitas Beroes, Tierra negra of Ángel Custodio Loyola, the Guayaba, Caminito Verde, the Macan, with the seal of Discomoda of Cesar Roldán. Magdalena was recognized like the “initiator” of the diffusion of the Caracas popular Composers and other regions of the country. Also she was designated and recognized like the pioneer of the Venezuelan Popular song.
In 1961, she traveled to Spain in a tour of two months. In her return she retires temporarily by reasons of health. She made presentations in Mexico, Cuba, Colombia, Portugal among others. When the television in Venezuela begins is called for the program Canciones de mi tierra, she participates in the Show de las doce with Victor Saume, and in all the channels that arose in those years. Between her public presentations we can mentioned, the one of the new Circus of Caracas in the Famous Festival of music of 1948, Magdalena participated in the cinema, in films like the Epic of Bolivar where she did of niñera of the Liberator, who was personified in the film by Maximilian Shell.
In her interpretations she printed Joy to the Joropos and that melancholic tone in the songs of the old composers. Magdalena also sang with the Orchestra of the Teacher Luis Alfonzo Larrain, with the coming of the television in Venezuela, was the initiator of the “corporal expression” like an additional and visual element to the voice. She was also the first artist in using the llanera clothes in scene, motivating with it the practice of the use of this suit in the Creole sets. Her cultural work was recognized with almost the totality of the prizes that are granted in the country, Popular tributes of Venezuelan institutions, Gobernaciones, Mayorships, Universities, and the whole Venezuelan artistic union.
[edit] Last years
Magdalena Sánchez was one of the greatest singers of the popular culture, pride of the Venezuelan music to which she offered her life as a faithful exponent of the folk customs through song. Magdalena Sánchez died August 18, 2005.
