Miguel Poventud
| Miguel Poventud | |
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"El Niño Prodigio de Guayama"
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| Also known as | "Miguelito" |
| Born | August 4, 1942 Guayama, Puerto Rico |
| Died | March 3, 1983 New York City, New York |
| Genres | Boleros |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, singer, actor and composer of Boleros |
| Instruments | Guitar |
| Labels | Spanoramic records RCA (Mexico) Orfeon (International releases) |
 You may listen to Miguel Poventud and his group Los Menores sing Mi Amada Diana on YouTube (Spanish) |
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and Prometo Recordarte (I Promise To Remember you) on YouTube. |
Miguel Poventud a.k.a. "El Niño Prodigio de Guayama" and "Miguelito" (August 4, 1942 – March 3, 1983), was a Puerto Rican musician, singer, actor and composer of Boleros. Among the singers who have interpreted his musical compositions are Johnny Albino, Héctor Lavoe and Daniel Santos.
Poventud was born in Guayama, Puerto Rico, to Francisco Poventud, a law enforcement officer in the San Juan Police Department, and Concepción Aponte, a seamstress. Descendent of Carlos Armstrong and Eulalia Pou, Poventud was the youngest of five siblings. From the age of five Poventud, known as El Niño Prodigio de Guayama (The Child Prodigy of Guayama), looked forward to trips to the town Plaza accompanied by his mother, dressed in clothes that she herself had sewn. While he was a student at the Escuela Parada Guamani, he suffered a spinal cord injury caused by a biking accident and was hospitalized for two years, which left him immobile at the age of 10. His mother was stricken by TB and died shortly after he was discharged from the hospital.
When Poventud's father gave him a guitar, he taught himself to play it. He re-arranged the guitar strings upside down since he was left handed. Soon Poventud was performing in his hometown of Guayama, winning awards, and singing before large audiences at the local radio station WHOM.
After his mother's death, Poventud's father remarried. The young boy resented this, and resented his father's opposition to his musical career.
Victor Alonso of Spanoramic records got interested in Poventud's musical work. Before her death, Alonso promised Poventud's mother that he would give him a career opportunity. He made Poventud an offer that included the recording of Poventud's first record album titled Pobre Huerfanito (Poor Little Orphan) in New York City. At this point, Poventud's father again resisted the boy's musical career, and his older brother Carlos argued with the father about Miguelito's future. After this argument, Carlos took young Poventud to live with him in New York City, and became his legal guardian.
In New York, Poventud continued his primary and secondary education at P.S. 93 Elementary School, then at Joan of Arc High School.
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