José Catire Carpio

Infobox Person
name= José "Catire" Carpio


caption=
dead=dead
birth_date= birth date|1940|12|19|mf=y
birth_place= Altagracia de Orituco, Guárico, Venezuela
death_date= death date|2006|6|26|mf=y
death_place= Caracas, Venezuela

José "Catire" Carpio (José Algimiro Carpio Velásquez) was born in the "Maramales" Valleys of "Altagracia de Orituco", Guárico, Venezuela, on December 19, 1940. At a young age, Carpio, son of "Rosso Carpio" and "María de Carpio", marched with his parents to eastern Venezuela. José Carpio gave his first concert in the city of El Tigre, Anzoátegui as a fan singer in a radio program called "Buscando estrellas para el futuro". Between 1957 and 1960, Carpio evolved into a professional singer, crossing Venezuela with the llanero musical group "Copleros del Mar y Llano", along with his friend and harpist Germán Rangel. At the beginning of the 1960s, José Carpio went to Caracas in search of the projection of his career, at the TV program "Brindis por Venezuela", directed by Juvenal Sarmiento, is baptized like José "Catire" Carpio.

José Romero Bello helped Carpio record his first 45 rpm album, "Flor de Apure", on which Bello also played the harp. José "Catire" Carpio was made famous by the songs, "Cantadores de mi patria, Guayaba verde, Hágame caso, compadre" and "La mula". He appeared at the festivals, "I Torneo Internacional del joropo," celebrated in Villavicencio, Colombia, in 1965. "Maracaya de Oro", in Maracay, Aragua, 1973, "El Florentino de Oro", 1974, among others.

On the evening of June 26, 2006, Carpio died in Caracas of a heart attack when he fell down the stairs of a clinic where he was visiting his wife.

See also

*Joropo
*Venezuela
*Venezuelan music