The final farewell to Celik Sarabia, composer of “Ancidad” | civilization

Venezuelan musician and composer Joseph Henry chilek sarabia (Asunción, Isla de Margarita, 1940), a reference in the folk song of Venezuela and recognized for his work throughout Latin America, died in Lechería, Anzoátegui state, on the country’s east coast, at the age of 81.

Sarabia is known as an author WorriedThe Venezuelan Passage he composed at the age of 15 and a meteoric voyage into the Spanish-speaking world has covered countless times. The song has been translated into several languages ​​and performed by characters like Nat King CoolLucho Gatica, Sara Montiel, Alfredo Sadel, Olga Guillot, Javier Solis, Diango or Maria Marta Sierra Lima.

Sarabia went to Caracas in the 1950s, still very young, from the Sao Tome oil field in the east of the country, with the goal of studying music. At that time he composed his first song, Janet and Santom.

With her extraordinary talent, Chelique Sarabia was able to open the doors of television and local entertainment relatively quickly. In the 1960s he was accepted to lead the scouts and talent promoters on the national stage, and was a reference within the art world and musical appreciation.

At that time, in places like El Club Musical, and Ritmo y Color de Venezuela, Sarabia acquired a group of artists and talents who were later on the rise in the entertainment industry, such as José Luis Rodríguez, as José Luis Rodríguez, sisters Maria Theresa and Rosa Virginia Chasin, Henry Stephen, Los Impala Group and Sherry Navarro. He sponsored many of them on their first recording projects. After some time, he debuted as a presenter and host of Space Half an hour with Cheliquebroadcast by Radio Television Caracas.

Sarabia developed a discography in which Latin American folk genres go hand-in-hand with Venezuelan rhythms, which had their most memorable moments of the 1960s. The Venezuelan Society of Authors and Composers, Sakvin, values ​​more than 2,000 of his works, including songs and songs promotional, as he himself emphasized on several occasions. Some of them are part of a well-established local contemporary cultural tradition: Chinita from MaracaiboAnd Hymn to friendshipAnd When I don’t know about youAnd stone crown s my soul hurts.

The man is also associated with the advertising industry, personally close to democratic work [el partido fundador del sistema democrático de 1958]Sarabia is famous for being the author of several works songs s splatter Linked to the political marketing and electoral struggles of the quiet years of the country’s civilian governments, linked to the oil boom at the end of the twentieth century. In particular , This man is walkingconsisting of the first presidential nomination for Carlos Andres Perez, in 1973; sWho are you withAnd Companion? for the election campaign Luis Pinero Ordazwhich is part of the auditory memory of generations of Venezuelans.

In 1984, he unanimously won the Caracas city anthem composing competition, in collaboration with teacher Tiero Pezzutti; Shortly thereafter, he took on the task of composing the municipal anthem of Urbaneja, State of Anzoátegui, where he lived and where he died.

Although his record releases began in the 1980s, his prolific legacy has been honed and treated with great respect for decades by domestic and international critics. In 2015, Chelique Sarabia received the Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of her contribution to Latin American folk music of all time.

I am a man of faith and believe in destiny. Everyone comes into this world with his script under his arm, with a program that gets done as the years go by,” he said in an interview with Al Bawaba motivation About six years ago. “Simply put, one comes to this world to purify the soul in connection with some trouble from a previous life. But you also need a little luck, and by the way, you got it. In addition to genetic information, a little luck is always necessary to know how to take advantage of opportunities, I believe I took advantage of it.”

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