Vidal Colmenares
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| Background information | |
| Born | February 14, 1952  Caño de Indio, Barinas, Venezuela |
| Genre(s) | Joropo, Songs of Arreo, Aguinaldos |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter |
| Years active | 1977–present |
Vidal Colmenares was born on February 14, 1952 in Caño de Indio, a neighborhood in Barinas, deep inside the llanos.
When he was 15 years old, started to sing parrandas llaneras in his home town. He recorded his first album at age 25, including two pasajes llaneros: his Mujer ambiciosa (Ambitious woman) and Amor Indolente (Indolent love), lyrics written by him and music made by Sergio Aranguren, a harpist who accompanied him. He became known thanks to La voz de Apure, a broadcasting station from San Fernando de Apure, where there was a show sponsored by Almacenes El Topacio, and conducted by Freddy Ibañez in 1977.
He obtained the second place in the San Martin Festival in Colombia, with a new golpe (including his lyrics); and was the winner of a local festival in Papelón, a town in Portuguesa, Venezuela, with other of his compositions, in 1994. He was elected as president of the Festival Internacional de Música llanera El Silbón in 1998, and as permanent member of the organizing board of the fundation that manages the festival, has been Director of Culture of the Municipality of Guanarito, Portuguesa state. He is living Patrimony of Guanarito (thanks to a decree from the Municipality), the town where he lives.
He stars as Florentino in the play of Venezuelan poet Alberto Arvelo Torrealba: La Leyenda de Florentino y el Diablo (The legend of Florentino and the Devil). He has travel around the country, and visited Colombia and Cuba with this play. Colmenares has been in Spain: Seville Expo '92, Tenerife, Madrid, Barcelona and Vigo. He has been in Chicago, Champaign, Illinois, Saint Vincent, Curacao, Aruba, Port of Spain, and French Guyana; in the Cultural Festival of the Unesco in Quito (Ecuador), and Medellín (Colombia).
[edit] Discography
- 1980: Acompañando al arpa (With Pedro Catro. Producer: Rafael Salazar)
- 1988: A Capanaparo (Producer: José María Marín)
- 1990: La otra música del llano (With Los Cabestreros. Producer: CONAC)
- 1997: La Leyenda de Florentino y el Diablo (With Los Cabestreros. Producer: Portuguesa State Government)
- 2006: Otro llano (Producer: Bob Abreu/Cacao Música)
[edit] Source
- Information from the album Otro llano (2006), by Vidal Colmenares.
