Efrén Echeverría
| Efren Echeverria | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Efren Echeverria |
| Born |
March 4, 1932 Lima Department of San Pedro, Py |
| Genres | 70 |
| Occupation(s) | Guitarist |
Efren Echeverria (born March 4, 1932) is a musician guitarist, composer, and compiler Paraguay.
Efren Echeverria, artistically nicknamed "Kamba'i", is one of the most popular performers and creators of the guitar in Paraguay.
Self-taught, he leaves mark on his peculiar way of running the guitar, traits and tapping at the same time, without using specific techniques or methods of guitar Scholars. In addition to his own technique, "Kamba'i" uses a personal pitch of the instrument, which allows the strings to produce a higher tone when sounding in the air.
When Efren was nine years old, a neighbor, Eusebio Cantero, taught him the first chords on guitar. With him, he learned the authentic pieces of folk repertoire of anonymous authors. Thus, from an early age, Paraguayan music became familiar to him; therefore to own a guitar became a passionate desire of his childhood. And not a long time passed until the desired instrument came to his life. Already in his teens, Echeverria became part of the act placed in any "Musiqueada" (musical parties) that was done in his homeland.
Soon Efren takes over the serenades of the place, always pushing the guitar and sometimes up the violin or accordion with buttons. His repertoire covered everything that the public from the area knew could appreciate.
As the young Efren Echeverria understood, he could not survive with music as a single work, he was an employee and was able get the best notes from the musical instruments; there was no tayï (a typical tree from Paraguay) that could resist to his blunt axe.
The musician worked as employee in the area of Curuguaty by the year 1950. In 1960 he settled in the city of Asuncion, capital of Paraguay.
In the 70's, he came to participate in the emerging music festivals and television. In those days he began to arouse interest in the capital for his original compositions and his special way of tapping and ripping the guitar simultaneously.
The name of this musician is among the great composers of popular music, among which one can summon Mauricio Cardozo Ocampo Agustín Barboza Herminio Gimenez, Demetrio Ortiz Emiliano R. Fernandez and Jose Asuncion Flores.
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