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Memories of America's largest bolerista

As a teen in the 60's, I learned to admire and appreciate the enormous size art the great American romantic singer was Lucho Barrios, listening with sighs Marabou and other boleros that are timeless hymns of love, heartbreak, broken romances, oaths and other sets.

Already in the 70's, when he managed Shows the pages of the defunct newspaper La Tercera, I met him personally in writing, when I interviewed between typewriters, jokes and "flashes" Leoncio chamber Mariscal.

remember the artist Luis Sayan Bridge quickly made him a caricature and it gave her.
"Here I am more pintón, has helped me, I will use in my next record," said the king of boleros.

is that Lucho was a very simple, good-natured, always with a smile on his lips and, yes, the verbal feint very fast, as it was very corner, was born in Callao and later became in the corners of the Barrios Altos criollazos.



That afternoon of the interview I thought I was dreaming, a few years ago, was an idol for me, a romantic hero surrounded by a magical aura, difficult to identify as a man lacking common celebrity.

45RPM With its black acetate discs and a modest player, we gave serenade love with my high school buddies back in the cobbled streets and longed for my Andean town of Cajamarca.

After befriended. Today he has gone to eternity, in the imagination clear see her smiling face, hear your voice and memories of those endless dawns that we shared many times with Pedrito Otiniano, and a host of guitarists, singers and drawers in the old Creole Music Center Union, near the Plaza Castilla.

always dazzled and was a big romantic song in the most modest scenario of a poor neighborhood of Lima, in a remote provincial town, in arenas and stadiums that met crowds.
Still, his virtuosity and his humility shone clear in the most lofty "cathedrals" of the show in Mexico, Chile, Ecuador and beyond in the legendary theater Paris Olympia.

In Ecuador became a close friend of another divine voice singing: Julio Jaramillo.

addition to its unparalleled bolero, Lucho delighted to Ecuadorians as the gods singing halls. That artistic symbiosis only between the large, Jaramillo learned to sing very well our waltzes.

Lucho Barrios, friends, unforgettable contertulio my unrepentant bohemian, you do not fit distances and less redundant. How to say goodbye if you can never leave my heart and soul of your people! Just let me testify and witness to the deep and endearing love that saved audiences forever your beloved Peru and throughout Latin copper.