Jorge "Lobito" Martínez

Infobox musical artist
Name = Jorge Eladio Martínez Ayala


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Background = Songwriter
Birth_name = Jorge Eladio Martínez Ayala
Alias = Lobito
Born = birth date|1952|05|11
Asunción, Py
Died = death date and age|2003|01|10|1952|05|11
Asunción, Py
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Occupation = Musician
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Associated_acts =“Canto para t픓Que más da”“Carola”“Juego de niños”
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Born in Asunción, Paraguay’s capital, on May 11th, 1952, son of the singer, guitarist, composer, and folklorist Eladio Martínez and Aida Ayala.

First steps

He studied piano with Margarita Morosoli de Picardo since he was 6 until he turned 11 and then with Nelly Jimenez, Pedro Burian and in Leonor Aranda's High Pianistic Studies Institute.His harmony teachers were Luis Cañete and Carlos Schwartzman. Since he was 22 years old and until 1983 he was in the modern and dancing music group “Los Aftermad's” with whom he recorded many compact discs that included songs written by him.In the `80 he was in the jazz group “Opus 572” and he mostly offered classic music recitals as a piano solo.

Trayectory

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Works

Among his important creations:
*“Canto para ti” (I sing for you) y “Que más da”(Whatever), recorded by “Los Aftermad’s”,
*“Carola”, recorded by Andrés Boiarsky in Buenos Aires, in 1986;
*The movie sound track of the movie “El portón de los sueños” (the dream gate), of the filmmaker Hugo Gamarra about Augusto Roa Bastos` life;
*“Juego de niños” (children game) gives its name to an excellent compact disc leaned to the folkloric music with an obvious jazz influence presented in 1995, in which he shows more of his creative talent (“Avy`a jave” and “Navidad”) and recreations of Paraguayan classics of all times, for example “Asunción” by Federico Riera dedicated to Paraguay’s capital.

Last years

He died tragically, murdered in January, 2003. he was 51 years old and lots could’ve been hoped of his talent, the contemporaries of his static proposal and his overflowing creativity.

References

* Diccionario Biográfico "FORJADORES DEL PARAGUAY", Primera Edición Enero de 2000. Distribuidora Quevedo de Ediciones. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
* EVP - Wikipedia
* [http://www.evp.edu.py/index.php?title=Portada Enciclopedia Virtual Paraguaya - Portal]

External links

* [http://www.musicaparaguaya.org.py/jlmartinez.htm Música Paraguaya]
* [http://www.vivaparaguay.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=657 Viva Paraguay]
* [http://www.cabildoccr.gov.py/index.php?pagina=vernovedades&idnovedad=4 Centro Cultural de la República El Cabildo]