Ángel Medardo Luzuriaga (14 September 1935 – 19 June 2018) was an Ecuadorian musical artist, precursor of the Andean
cumbia
Cumbia refers to a number of musical rhythms and folk dance traditions of Latin America, generally involving musical and cultural elements from American Indigenous peoples, Europeans, and Africans during colonial times. Cumbia is said to have com ...
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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 (; ), officially San Francisco de Quito, is the capital city, capital and second-largest city of Ecuador, with an estimated population of 2.8 million in its metropolitan area. It is also the capital of the province of Pichincha Province, P ...
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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