Gualberto Ibarreto
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| Born | July 12, 1947  El Pilar, Sucre state, Venezuela |
| Genre(s) | Venezuelan folk music |
| Occupation(s) | Singer |
| Years active | 1970–present |
Gualberto Ibarreto (born July 12, 1947 in El Pilar, Sucre state, Venezuela), is a folk singer, and executant of mandolin, cuatro, and guitar. During his childhood, learned the execution of several instruments by self taught learning, after observing popular musicians of the Venezuelan eastern, received some slight knowledge of academic music from Tobías Hernandez and the Raul Bennedetti. Paricipated at the choral of the Briceño Méndez Grammar School, and executed the mandolin at the San Antonio de Padua School Band of El Tigre, Anzoátegui state. Between 1970 and 1975, Gualberto made his first presentations as solo singer, in the auditoriums of the Central University of Venezuela and the University of the Andes. From there, record his first album for Promus, a Venezuelan record seal, also is contracted by Radio Caracas Televisión. Gualberto Ibarreto has recorded more than 15 albums in which has presented a wide diversity of folk music, specially from the venezuelan eastern, with genres like: Malagueña, Jota, Galerón and Polo, interpreting songs of composers such as: Luis Mariano Rivera, Luis Guillermo González, Simón Díaz, Augusto Bracca, Enrique Hidalgo and José Enrique Sarabia, among others. This insigne artist, has made presentations throughout all countries in America.
Gualberto Ibarreto has participated as special guest in many albums of other well known singers and groups from Venezuela, such as Serenata Guayanesa, Cecilia Todd, Huáscar Barradas, Juan Carlos Salazar, El Cuarteto, among many others.
He struggled in the early 1990s to overcome a substance abuse problem, successfully dealing with his alcoholism and making a comeback, his comeback album: "Hoy He Vuelto A Ser El" (Today, I Am Him Once Again) became an instant hit at the Venezuelan market.
