Guillermo Segundo Venegas Lloveras ( Quebradillas,

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October 12, 1915 –

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July 23, 1993) was a Puerto Rican songwriter. After success in his youth with popular

bolero Bolero is a genre of song which originated in eastern Cuba in the late 19th century as part of the trova tradition. Unrelated to the older Spanish dance of the same name, bolero is characterized by sophisticated lyrics dealing with love. It has ...

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danza Danza is a musical genre that originated in Ponce, a city in southern Puerto Rico. It is a popular turn-of-the-twentieth-century ballroom dance genre slightly similar to the waltz. Both the danza and its cousin the contradanza are sequence danc ...

s, in later life he returned to

classical music Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. It is sometimes distinguished as Western classical music, as the term "classical music" also ...

. A two-hour television program was produced by Puerto Rico Lyric Theatre director Jesús Quiñones Ledesma (otherwise known by stage name as the operatic tenor Ricardo Ledesma). After his death the rights to his songs were disputed.

Works

* Génesis (Lucecita Benítez song) 1969''Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures'' ed. Daniel Balderston, Mike Gonzalez, Ana M. López - 2000 - "In 1969, Benítez's spectacular success at the First World Festival of Canción Latina, held in Mexico, with her song 'Génesis' (written by Guillermo Venegas Lloveras) placed her unequivocally on an international stage"

References

1915 births 1993 deaths American male songwriters People from Quebradillas, Puerto Rico 20th-century American composers 20th-century American male musicians {{US-songwriter-stub