When mentioning the name of Adolfo Echeverria The first thing that comes to mind are classics like The four festivals, Immaculate o Dawningwhich sound louder every December as they are now part of the Colombian identity.
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However, the artist who would have turned 18 this Tuesday 90 years It was much more than that, it was a compositor universal who knew how to move around variety of genres that seems thoughtless.
From the cumbia to vallenatoof the Bolero sauceofThe ranchera style danzón. And so, with a naturalness that few can achieve, the man from Barranquilla knew how to position his name in the musical elite, his songs were recorded by artists of the stature of Celia Cruz and Tito Puente (Ketchup), Victor Manuelle y Joe Arroyo (Dawning), Jorge Oñate, Diomedes Diaz, Juancho Polo Valencia, Rodolfo Aicardi, The Rosario Brothers, Johnny Ventura and more.
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“My father was not only a local, coastal artist. The music he made is heard much more outside of Colombia than inside. What happens is that on the coast we get used to choosing certain types of songs that we like,” admits Fito Echeverría, his son, who has continued that musical legacy by being today the vocalist of the band. Niche Group.
