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This Saturday, February 12, the teacher Julio Erazo died, who will be remembered for composing the popular song “Adonay” and 350 other compositions. Apparently the musician would have died of a cardiorespiratory arrest in Magangué, Bolívar.
Julio Erazo ventured into different musical rhythms, from paseos, joints, tangos, to rancheras, merengues and boleros. But his musical taste was perhaps influenced by his parents: Carmen Cuevas Vallarys and José Ignacio Erazo Paris, because in his house artists such as Gardel, Guillermo Buitrago and even musical groups such as the Trío Matamoros were heard. .
He went from singing songs composed and performed by others, to being the author of his own lyrics. “I simply make a song because it comes to me, I never take a piece of paper, a pencil, to write some lyrics, but rather it flows spontaneously”, commented the musician in “Julio Erazo: El Mester De La Juglaría Pocabuyana”, written by John Carlos Pedrozo.
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Erazo was a member of “Los Corraleros de Majagual”, for whom he came to compose around fifty songs and with whom he was present on at least ten albums. Also, he sang alongside Edmundo Arias, Pacho Galán, Lucho Bermúdez, Los Rufinos, Andy Russell and Consuelo Velásquez.