Argentine
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author and composer, musician and music teacher, born in
San Juan San Juan, Spanish for Saint John, may refer to:
Places Argentina
* San Juan Province, Argentina
* San Juan, Argentina, the capital of that province
* San Juan, Salta, a village in Iruya, Salta Province
* San Juan (Buenos Aires Underground), ...
. He developed an intensive professional career as a folk percussion performer.
Specialized in Argentine folk music, he toured, played and recorded with many artists and groups, such as Manolo Juárez,
Suna Rocha
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People
*Suuna I of Buganda, king of Buganda until 1609
* Suna II of Buganda, king of Buganda from 1836 until 1856
*Suna Kan (born 1936), Turkish violinist of classical music
* Suna Kıraç (1941–2020), member of the Turkish Ko ...
Jairo
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*Francisco Jairo Silva Santos (born 1988), Brazilian footballer
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, Facundo Saravia, Los Andariegos, and Los Chalchareros, among many others.
Rivero has composed Chamber Works for Percussion, being one of them ''Hunuc Huar'' (for flute, cello and percussion), the premiere of which took place at the Auditorium LRA Radio Nacional.
In 1995 he received a Trimarg Award, granted by the Argentine Music Committee of UNESCO, in the genre "Folk Projection".
In 2002 he was granted the National Fellowship in Folk Expressions by the National Arts Fund (Fondo Nacional de las Artes).
In 2004 Carlos Rivero published his book: Bombo Legüero and Argentine Folk Percussion.
He played at the
Mar del Plata
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San Martín Theatre (Sala Martín Coronado) as part of the "Mar del Jazz" Festival with Greek guitar player, Andreas Geogiu, and Brazilian percussionist Eliezér Freitas Santos.
He has also recorded with bass player César Franov and guitarist Quique Sinessi; the trio toured around the country.
Rivero formed part of the Ethnic Percussion Trio with Marcelo García and Facundo Guevara, and he has also performed in a Duet together with the guitar player José Salussi. He covered the well-known Argentine rock band Divididos during a concert in
Sarmiento Park
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Overview
The development of a suburb south of the rapidly growing Córdoba of the late nineteenth century created the need for an extensive new green space for the area. The new ...
La Argentinidad al Palo
''La Argentinidad al Palo'': ''Se Es, Lo Que Se Es'' is the seventh album by the Argentine Rock band Bersuit Vergarabat
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History
The previous name of the band (from 1 ...
''. With this group, he performed at concerts held in the
River Plate Stadium
Estadio Monumental (), officially Estadio Mâs Monumental for sponsorship reasons,Luna Park.
Since 1987, Carlos Rivero works as a full-time professor of folklore at the School of Popular Music of
Avellaneda
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. He also gives clinics and lectures on Musical Language Appreciation, Bombo legüero and Argentine Folk Percussion all over the country.