Jorge "Lobito" Martínez
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| Jorge Eladio Martínez Ayala | |
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| Birth name | Jorge Eladio Martínez Ayala |
| Also known as | Lobito |
| Born | May 11, 1952 Asunción, Py |
| Died | January 10, 2003 (aged 50) Asunción, Py |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Associated acts | “Canto para tí”
“Que más da” “Carola” “Juego de niños” |
Born in Asunción, Paraguay’s capital, on May 11th, 1952, son of the singer, guitarist, composer, and folklorist Eladio Martinez and Aida Ayala.
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[edit] First steps
He studied piano with Margarita Morosoli de Picardo since he was 6 until he turned 11 and then with Nelly Jimenez, Pedro Burian and in Leonor Aranda's High Pianistic Studies Institute. His harmony teachers were Luis Cañete and Carlos Schwartzman. Since he was 22 years old and until 1983 he was in the modern and dancing music group “Los Aftermad's” with whom he recorded many compact discs that included songs written by him. In the `80 he was in the jazz group “Opus 572” and he mostly offered classic music recitals as a piano solo.
[edit] Trayectory
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Year Stand out activity 1986 He participated in Buenos Aires for a week in a musical clinic from the Berkeley Collage of Music. The impression he made was decisive for him to get a scholarship to continue his studies in the central of the World Wide famous musical institute in Boston, United Status 1988 A Fulbright scholarship let him move to Boston, where he graduated years later in performance, composition, arrangements and improvisations of jazz by the Berkeley Collage of Music. 1991 He was named headline teacher of the piano department of the educational center in which he developed the subject of “Music with Latin rhythms” for two years more. He was rewarded with the “Count Basie” From the Argentina’s Berkeley Summer School award. Middle 90’s He came back to Paraguay, offering recitals as a solo and dedicating to teaching and composition. 1997 He directed orchestras for the national editions of the OTI Festival (Iberoamerican Television Organization). Besides he coordinated and directed, in musical aspects, the edition of compact discs of Paraguayan music work made by the prestigious Paraguayan morning journal ABC Color. 1998 Called by the Sower Group (main referent of the movement denominated “New Popular Paraguayan Song book”) with the Philomusical Orchestra directed by Luis Szaran and the Paraguayan Choir directed by Luis Luccini Rivas, he was part of a memorable recital cycle in the CPJ (Paraguayan Japanese Center), in Asuncion. As a result off that experience that had “Lobito Marinez” as main musical protagonist, the journal ABC Color, carried out an edition of many thousands copies of a compact disc denominated “En las colinas del alma” (in the soul hills) commemorating the 25th years of validity of the Sower Group. “En las Colinas del alma” was a very anthological review of the popular Paraguayan song of all times.
[edit] Works
Among his important creations:
- “Canto para ti” (I sing for you) y “Que más da”(Whatever), recorded by “Los Aftermad’s”,
- “Carola”, recorded by Andrés Boiarsky in Buenos Aires, in 1986;
- The movie sound track of the movie “El portón de los sueños” (the dream gate), of the filmmaker Hugo Gamarra about Augusto Roa Bastos` life;
- “Juego de niños” (children game) gives its name to an excellent compact disc leaned to the folkloric music with an obvious jazz influence presented in 1995, in which he shows more of his creative talent (“Avy`a jave” and “Navidad”) and recreations of Paraguayan classics of all times, for example “Asunción” by Federico Riera dedicated to Paraguay’s capital.
[edit] Last years
He died tragically, murdered in January, 2003. he was 51 years old and lots could’ve been hoped of his talent, the contemporaries of his static proposal and his overflowing creativity.
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- Diccionario Biográfico "FORJADORES DEL PARAGUAY", Primera Edición Enero de 2000. Distribuidora Quevedo de Ediciones. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
