Eladio Peguero

Gabriel Eladio Peguero Vega ( Yayo el Indio ; born March 18, 1920 in Juana Díaz , † December 14, 2000 in New York City ) was a Puerto Rican singer.

Peguero, who became known under the stage name Yayo, el Indio, began his professional career as a singer at the age of sixteen on the radio with the Orquesta Pilot . At the same time he also performed with the singer Ruth Fernández . His first recording, the title Bésame Otra Vez , was made in 1940 with the Orchestra of the Casino de Ponce .

After the end of the Second World War he went to the USA in 1945 and worked there on American-wide programs on CBS and NBC . In the same year he joined the Celso Vega quintet and appeared in programs by Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby . The El Buen Vecino program, which is broadcast throughout the USA , presented him alongside Latin American musicians such as Néstor Mesta Chayres , Pedro Vargas , Carlos Ramírez and Carmen Miranda .

In 1949 Yayo became a member of the orchestra of Miguelito Valdés and Roberto "Tito" Mendoza . At the Teatro Hispano he was given the opportunity to appear for two years with the orchestra of Alberto Socarrás , from 1952 he was engaged for two years at the Teatro Apolo . He then returned to Puerto Rico and founded his own orchestra there, with which he undertook concert tours throughout Latin America.

In 1961 he went to New York again. There he worked alongside Dioris Valladares , Cheo Feliciano , Willie Torres , Victor Velásquez and Heny Álvarez on the albums of the Alegre All-Stars and worked with Joe Quijanos and Charlie Palmieri's Cesta All Stars . In Mexico he recorded with the Pedro Flores quartet . In Puerto Rico he then joined Roberto Angleró's group. In the 1960s he was the singer of Lito Peñas Orquesta La Panamericana . With Bouffartique y su Charanga , the orchestra of the Cuban pianist Oscar Muñoz Bouffartique and the singers Frank Souffront and Tony Molina , he recorded the album The New Latín Dance Craze - Charanga Pachanga in 1965 .

In 1971, Yayo joined the legendary Sonora Matancera , which was run by Rogelio Martínez at the time . He undertook numerous concert tours with the group through the USA, Latin America and Europe and recorded 44 titles with her as a soloist and numerous others as a choir singer, including the Guaracha El Gallo, La Gallina y El Caballo , the song La Vecina by Raúl Marrero , the Duo Traidora with the Cuban singer Wuelfo Gutiérrez and Maní Tostao . He took part as a solo singer at the celebration of the 65th anniversary of the founding of Sonora Matancera in Carnegie Hall in 1989.

In 1993 the last album by Yayo and Sonora Matancera, De Nuevo México , was made, on which the salsa singers Frankie Vázquez and Adalberto Santiago as well as Willy "El Baby" Rodríguez participated. In 2001 he was next to Libertad Lamarque , Pete Rodríguez , Rita Montaner , Juan Morel Campos , Julio Jaramillo , Alfredo Valdés, Sr. , Sylvia Rexach , Felipe Pirela , José Mangual, Sr. , Toña la Negra , Pedro Vargas , Javier Solís , Antonio Mesa , Don Azpiazú , Luis Carlos Meyer , Pedro Infante and Antonio Machín posthumously inducted into the International Latin Music Hall of Fame . The Cuban singer Graciela Grillo Pérez, as well as Héctor Casanova , Ruth Fernández , Cándido Camero , Carlos "Patato" Valdés , Wilfrido Vargas , Armando Peraza , Francisco Aguabella , Tata Güines , Tite Curet Alonso , Vitín Avilés , Raya Romero , Maso River performed at the ceremony and Rafael Solano .

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SURNAME	Peguero, Eladio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pefuero Vega, Gabriel Eladio; Yayo el Indio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Puerto Rican singer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 18, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH	Juana Díaz
DATE OF DEATH	December 14, 2000
Place of death	New York City