Juanito Arteta

Juan Arteta Amaigo de Ibero ( Juanito Arteta ; born May 18, 1918 in Madrid ; † November 12, 2008 ) was a Venezuelan trumpeter and arranger of Spanish origin.

The son of the concertmaster of the Sinfónica de la Capilla Real attended military school from the age of ten. He studied solfège at the Conservatorio de Música y Declamación and trumpet for twelve years. In the Spanish Civil War he took part on the republican side in the Regiment Dolores Ibárruri Gómez. As an undesirable foreigner, he was interned in Perpignan, France. There he obtained Mexican papers and fled to Mexico in 1939.

In Mexico he became a member of Luis Arcaráz's orchestra , and in 1940 soloist in the Emisora XEW orchestra directed by José Saber Marroquí . In 1941 he won a competition in honor of Harry James , which earned him the title La trompeta de oro de México . Pérez Prado took him into his orchestra and played with him titles such as Al Son del Mambo . At Cabaret Río Rosa he led his own orchestra and performed alternately with Beny Moré and his group. He also accompanied musicians such as Agustín Lara , Pedro Vargas , Jorge Negrete and Miguel Aceves Mejía .

In 1952 he traveled to Venezuela at the invitation of Renny Ottolina . The two-week trip turned into a lifelong stay. He became musical director of Radio Libertador and Rafiodifusora Venezuela , led the orchestra of Ondas de Lago in Maracaibo and made recordings with Memo Morales , Cheo García and Felipe Pirela, among others . He founded the Orquesta Angostura with Pepe Flores , led the Banda Juan Bautista Dalla Costa and wrote more than four hundred musical arrangements. In Víctor Saume's television program A Control Remotos , he was named Trompeta de Oro de América .

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SURNAME	Arteta, Juanito
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Arteta Amaigo de Ibero; Juan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Venezuelan trumpeter and arranger
DATE OF BIRTH	May 18, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH	Madrid
DATE OF DEATH	November 12, 2008