DARIO GARZON CHARRY

major contributions to your field

Director serveral investigations about folkloric expressions

Music, chorns and folkloric instruments teacher during 50 years

Folk songs composer and arranger

Former president of Sayco a society of Colombian authors composer

Recorded with the Garzon and Collazos Duett more than 60 LP´S

Founder of macol a movement of Colombian artists

He composed the music that would be the most precious legacy of the traditional pentagram of the region, resulting in songs like Soy Tolimense, Las lavanderas, La subienda, A ti madre del alma, cariño eterno

brain power

professional profile

Musician

Studies: Attended Tolima, music conservatory pedagogic university, Bogota. Mastered: Bandola and other Instruments

Professional guitarist

personal profile

he was born in Girardot, Colombia, on January 1915

He died in 1986

Why did you choose this person

Because he was the maximum representative of Colombian folklore

Folklorist - master in music - investigator - university teacher arranger - composer - garzon and collazos duett founder - chrus director - music teacher fols music events jury

I choose this person because of his legacy to our Colombian culture, roots and folklore.

His master interpretacoin with Garzon Collazos duett of classic Colombian pieces has ben an important point of reference for musicians of all tendencies