Juan Azúa

Juan Azúa (born November 17, 1938 in Santiago de Chile , † December 14, 2006 ibid) was a Chilean conductor.

Azúa studied saxophone and was a member of the Orquesta Cubanacán from 1956 to 1962 . He then founded Los Bronces de Monterrey , with whom he appeared in the television shows El show de Luis Dimas and Sábados Gigantes between 1966 and 1971 . Musicians like his brother, the saxophonist Kiko Azúa , the drummer Carlos Figueroa , the pianist Pancho Aranda and the trumpeter Ricardo Barrios played in the ensemble .

In 1974 he directed the first performance of a Broadway musical, El hombre de La Mancha , in Chile. The performance included Mickey Mardones (clarinet), Héctor Tito Reyes (trombone), Jorge Okington (trumpet), Guillermo Rifo (percussion) and Carlos Corales (guitar). After the great success of the piece at the Teatro Municipal in Santiago and throughout Chile, he was invited to the Festival de Viña del Mar in 1975 as a conductor . In the same year he released his first LP Juan Azúa y su orquesta .

He then received a contract with the studios of Canal 13 and worked with his ensemble until 1981 as a background musician for the shows Esta noche es fiesta , Aplauso and Lunes gala . With a new big band (including Marcos Aldana and Alejandro Vásquez , saxophone, Alejandro Olejnick , piano, Vladimir Groppas , guitar, Pablo Lecaros , bass and Raúl Aliaga , guitar), he accompanied the TV show Éxito from 1984 .

In 1994 he set poems by Gabriela Mistral , Vicente Huidobro , Pablo de Rokha and Nicanor Parra to music , which appeared on the album La salsa y los poetas with the voices of Humberto Lozán , Juan Rodríguez and Rachel . In 2000 Azúa founded the big band The Universal Orchestra , with which he recorded three albums.

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SURNAME	Azúa, Juan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chilean conductor
DATE OF BIRTH	November 17, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH	Santiago de Chile
DATE OF DEATH	December 14, 2006
Place of death	Santiago de Chile