Alberto Rey

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Alberto Rey (aka Luis Alberto Alzócar Alzócar ; born June 16, 1915 in Curicó ; † April 15, 2001 ) was a Chilean harpist.

Rey began his musical career in Santiago as a member of Los Huasos de Chincolco , one of the first folk music groups in Chile to make recordings. In 1935 he founded a duo with the guitarist Sergio Silva , which lasted fifty years. One of the duo's first recordings at RCA Victor was A las cuatros de la manana , a composition by Rey based on a text by Carlos Ullao Diaz in 1935 .

In 1943 he made his debut at a festival at the Teatro Baquedano in Santiago, he made his debut as a harpist. On a tour of the duo Rey / Silva 1945-46 through Argentina, Rey learned about the Paraguayan harp from the composer Félix Pérez Cardoso . In 1948 Rey and Silva met the singer Mario Catalán Portilla , with whom they recorded titles such as Aló Aló , Arremángate el vestido , Mi caserita and Desde que vine al mundo . From 1953 the duo, which by then had recorded more than fifty albums with RCA Victor, undertook a two-year concert tour through Latin America. On the album Cuacas con escándalo (1970) the duo united important representatives of Chilean folk music, including Mario Catalán , Humberto Campos , Manolo Santis Caravello , Rafael Andrada , Luís Téllez Viera , Luís Téllez Mellado , Luís Araneda , Raúl Lizama , Emilio Olivares and Víctor Oyarzún . In 1991 Rey founded the Los Paleteados del Puerto group in Valparaíso .

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SURNAME Rey, Alberto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alzócat Alzócar, Luis Alberto (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean harpist
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Curicó
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 2001