Guaco
Guaco is a tropical music and salsa band from Venezuela.
Career
Guaco was founded in Maracaibo in 1968 by Mario Viloria and Gustavo Aguado. It started out as a folkloric Gaita Zuliana group. In the 1970s, Guaco increasingly took up elements of salsa, such as the use of wind instruments. Today Guaco plays a mixture of salsa, pop, jazz, funk, rock and roll and Colombian vallenato. It is one of the style-forming groups of Tropical Music. Guaco has toured the USA , Europe and Japan several times .
Discography
- El Obrero (Conunto Los Guacos del Zulia) (1968)
- Maracaibo Cuatricentenario (1969)
- Los Guacos (1970)
- Esta gaita si está en algo (1972)
- Gaita a todo color con los Guaco (1973)
- Guaco 73 (1973)
- No diga que no los ha escuchado ni los ha visto (1974)
- Guaco 75 (1975)
- Guaco 76 (1976)
- Grupo Guaco 77 (1976)
- Criollo y Sabroso (1978)
- Guaco 79 (1979)
- Guaco 80 (1980)
- Guaco 81 (1981)
- Guaco 82 (1982)
- Guaco 83 (1983)
- Guaco's Guaco (1984)
- Guaco 85 (1985)
- Tercera Etapa (1986)
- Maduro (1987)
- Dejando Huella (1988)
- Betania (1989)
- Atracción Fatal (1990)
- Guaco 90 (1990)
- Guaco 91 (1991)
- Guaco 91 (1991)
- Guaco 92 (1992)
- Guaco 93 (1993)
- Triceratops (1993)
- Guaco Clásico I
- Guaco Clásico II
- Guaco Clásico III - Sabroso
- Archipiélago
- Amazon
- Cómo era y cómo es (1999)
- Guaco's Guaco (2000)
- Equilibrio (2001)
- Galopando (2002)
- El Sonido de Venezuela (2005)
- Equus (2006)
- Guajiro (2010)
occupation
- Juan Carlos Salas: musical director, trumpet
- Gustavo Aguado: founder, director and singing
- Luis Fernando Borjas: vocals
- Ronald Borjas: Singing
- Alexis Moreno: Charrasca
- Yonis Flores: percussion
- Vladimir Quintero: Congas
- Julio Rivera: Timbales
- Humberto Casanova: percussion
- Gustavo Molero: bongos, bells and percussion
- Julio Flores: tenor saxophone
- Norman Cepeda: Trumpet
- Edepson González: Keyboard
- Rafael Querales: bass
- Carmelo Medina: guitar
Notes and individual references
- ↑ Name probably comes from the plant Mikania guaco , which is used in South America as an antidote for snake bites
- ↑ Spanish Musica tropical, Afro-Caribbean Latin American music style, includes directions such as salsa, merengue , cumbia and bachata
- ↑ Gaita: Folk music from the province of Zulia with strong percussion accompaniment
- ↑ Japanese version
- ↑ Compilation by Universal Masters Collection Label
- ↑ Rhythm instrument for salsa