Ángel Medardo Luzuriaga (14 September 1935 – 19 June 2018) was an Ecuadorian musical artist, precursor of the Andean
cumbia.
Biography
Medardo was born in
Loja on 14 September 1935, and in his music he extolled the beauty of the Ecuadorian territory, especially that of the province of
Manabí. On 11 September 1967, he founded the orchestra "Don Medardo y sus Players", a group with which he had a record production of 105 albums. He died on June 19, 2018, at the age of 82 in the city of
Quito
Quito (; qu, Kitu), formally San Francisco de Quito, is the capital and largest city of Ecuador, with an estimated population of 2.8 million in its urban area. It is also the capital of the province of Pichincha. Quito is located in a valley o ...
Don Medardo Luzuriaga, el precursor de la cumbia andina, falleció este martes 19 de junio
References
1935 births
2018 deaths
Ecuadorian musicians
Cumbia musicians
People from Loja, Ecuador
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