Placido Acevedo

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Placido Acevedo Sosa ´ (born June 23, 1904 in Aguadilla , † February 27, 1974 in San Juan ) was a Puerto Rican trumpeter , orchestra conductor and composer .

Acevedo learned to play the trumpet in his youth and played in bands at circus and silent film screenings. In the mid-1920s he went to New York. There he met the musician Manuel Jiménez , with whom he later worked on the Los Reyes dr la Plena . In the early 1930s, he joined the group around the Cubans Antonio Machín , Daniel Sánchez and Alejandro Rodríguez (later replaced by Cándido Vincenti ) as the successor to trumpeter Mario Bauzá . He recorded several records with the group that made Moisés Simóns El manicero popular in several Latin American countries before he returned to Puerto Rico in 1937.

There he first appeared again in circus orchestras before joining the Trio Los Ruiseñores Criollos (with singer Félix Rodríguez, guitarist Paquito Sánchez and Manuel Jiménez as second singer and guitarist). The group had such great success with the title Mayarí that in 1938 it renamed itself Plácido Acevedo y su Cuarteto Mayarí . Acevedo no longer only acts as a trumpeter, but also as the songwriter of this group.

From 1941 onwards, recordings such as Borinquen tierra de flores , Anamú , Pipí Gongolí and Dorotea la parrandera were made , and after Jiménez was replaced by Claudio Ferrer , Mi despedida , Yo soy del llano , La carta perdida and Déjame en paz . Acevedo's ability as a lyricist contributed not least to the success of the more than 200 recorded songs.

The Mayarí Quartet toured Central and South America and the Caribbean and was signed by the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña . In the forty years of its existence it has performed with musicians such as Chiquitín García , Perín Vázquez , Tito Henríquez , Payo Flores and Rafael Hernández Fanta .

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SURNAME Acevedo, Placido
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Acevedo Sosa, Placido (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Puerto Rican trumpeter, orchestra leader and composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Aguadilla
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1974
Place of death San Juan (Puerto Rico)