Feliz Cumpleaños - Otilio Galindez Compositor Venezolano Feliz Navidad

#FelizCumpleaños Otilio Galindez - - Date of birth: December 13, 1935, Yaracuy, Venezuela Date of Death: June 13, 2009, Maracay, Venezuela

♫ Luna Decembrina (Otilio Galíndez) Canta: Simón Diaz Coro de niños del municipio Sucre del estado Miranda, Venezuela. ♫ Poncho Andino (Otilio Galíndez) Canta: Simón Diaz Coro de niños del municipio Sucre del estado Miranda, Venezuela.---------♫► Otilio Galindez, Venezuelan poet and singer, born in Yaritagua, state Yaracuy, 13 December 1935. From an early age showed her love of music, which with the passage of time would be reflected in his singing ability and interpretation of four. Very young arrived in Caracas and worked as a shoeshine and lottery ticket seller. Elapsed adolescence corresponds fulfill military service, during which time he composed his first works, which are then discarded, considering that they had poetic and melodic strength. At 20 he began to implement his inventiveness, and began writing songs with lyrics and music of his own. In 1957 enters as an employee of the Central University of Venezuela (UCV), where he spent a part of the University Chorus. Great reader, Galindez worked as a proofreader for renowned economists and other professionals, office which by his friend, the musician Raul Delgado Estévez, "could only do by reading a variety of texts, from Marcial Lafuente Estefania and their stories jeans he carried in his pocket, to Cervantes and Kafka ". While at the University Chorus, Galindez rubbed shoulders with prominent musicians like Antonio Estévez, Inocente Carreño and Modesta Bor, who was allowed to influence. He organized together with a group of friends partying they called "Pirates" initiative that gave rise to the first Christmas productions Otilio Galindez.

Among his topics dominated the Christmas songs, carols and carousing, giving him known in the Venezuelan repertoire, but also composed works ascribed to the waltz rhythms, bambuco the galerón, the passage, the lullaby, the tunes, merengue, joropo and danzon. His songs have been performed by recognized figures in Venezuela, as Simón Díaz, Lilia Vera, Soledad Bravo, Morella Muñoz, Jesus Sevillano, Quartet, Ensemble Gurrufío, Biella da Costa, Esperanza Márquez, Cecilia Todd and Ilan Chester, as well as most of the corals in the country and international singers like Silvio Rodriguez, Pablo Milanes and Mercedes Sosa.

Otilio Galindez, dies at 73. This illustrious author, who had long suffered from diabetes and hypertension, left this world during the night of Saturday June 13, 2009, in his sleep at his home, located in the city of Maracay.