Alfredo Sadel

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Alfredo Sadel (born February 22, 1930 in Caracas ; † June 28, 1989 there ; actually Manuel Alfredo Sánchez Luna ) was a Venezuelan singer and actor.

Life

Sadel studied music theory, harmony, piano and singing at the Escuela Superior de Música José Ángel Lamas , directed by Vicente Emilio Sojo . At the age of sixteen he recorded the song Desesperación on Radio Caracas , but it was not broadcast. He made his first appearances on the radio show Caravana Camel , and his first successful recording was a pasodoble dedicated to the torero Diamante Negro , which was sold 20 thousand times and with which he became known in Venezuela.

This was followed by further recordings and an offer for the first Venezuelan feature film Flor del Campo (1951). He appeared on the show Fiesta Fabulosa with compositions by Billo Frómetas , Eduardo Serranos and Manuel Enrique Pérez Díaz 'and recorded Conny Méndez ' Déjame and Aldemaro Romero's Me queda el consuelo in 1952 . In the same year he traveled to the USA. Here he appeared at the Jefferson Theater and (with Lola Flores ) at the Teatro San Juan in New York and was a guest on the Ed Sullivan Show , the Colgate Comedy Hour and the Show Chance of a Lifetime .

With the establishment of Radio Caracas Televisión in 1953, he was also present on Venezuelan television in programs such as El Show de Víctor Saume (with Lucho Gatica ) and El Show de Renny . After stays in the USA and in Cuba, where he appeared with Beny Moré , among others , he played in a number of Mexican films: Tú y la mentira , El ratón , El buena suerte , Martín Santos , El llanero , Un venezolano en México and Tres balas perdidas .

In 1957 he took on Escríbeme by Guillermo Castillo Bustamante , who was imprisoned under the regime of the dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez at the time. In the same year he founded the Asociación Venezolana de Artistas en Escena (AVADE). In 1958 he was the first Venezuelan artist to get a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , where he was supposed to replace Mario Lanza . The plates Sadel a media voz , Sadel canta a Agustín Lara and Caminos de mi tierra were created .

As an opera singer Sadel made his debut in 1962 at the Teatro Municipal of Caracas in the Zarzuela Los Gavilanes . This was followed by appearances in Yugoslavia, Hungary, Switzerland, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, the Soviet Union and New York's Carnegie Hall . With the parents of Plácido Domingo , the Zarzuela singers Plácido Domingo Ferrer and Pepita Embil , he went on a tour of Latin America.

On another trip to Europe, Sadel performed at the Munster Municipal Theaters and sang roles from Carmen , La Boheme , Tosca and Don Carlos in Sankt Gallen . In the Soviet Union he sang Tosca , Rigoletto , La Traviata , Lucia di Lammermoor and Madame Butterfly . Almost a year before his untimely death in 1988 he performed at the Teatro Teresa Carreña with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Venezuela . on. In total, Sadel recorded more than two thousand songs and released more than two hundred records.

Alfredo Sadel, who is now considered one of the most important and popular singers in Venezuela, died in 1989 at the age of 59 from bone cancer.

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personal data
SURNAME Sadel, Alfredo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sánchez Luna, Manuel Alfredo (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Venezuelan singer and actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Caracas
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1989
Place of death Caracas