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The predecessor of the Venezuelan cuatro is the four-string Spanish renaissance guitar which disappeared in the 16th century after a short period of surging popularity. In the 1950s, Fredy Reyna documented the evolution of the renaissance guitar into the current Venezuelan Cuatro, and reinvented the cuatro as a solo instrument, equally capable ...
The cuatro is a family of Latin American string instruments played in Colombia, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and other Latin American countries. It is derived from the Spanish guitar . Although some have viola -like shapes, most cuatros resemble a small to mid-sized classical guitar .
Fredy Reyna (April 3, 1917 - March 26, 2001) was a Venezuelan musician, arranger and performer, regarded as one of the two masters of the Venezuelan cuatro, which he elevated to the level of a concert instrument, and one of his country's most important cultural figures in the 20th century.
Cheo Hurtado (born May 2, 1960) is a Venezuelan musician, one of the most celebrated virtuoso performers of the cuatro, whose extremely agile strumming technique is currently believed to be unsurpassed. He also plays mandolin, bandola and guitar.
Jose Miguel Velasquez was born in 1967 in Caracas, Venezuela. As a child, he sang in his school’s choir and learned to play piano, drums and the traditional Venezuelan guitar known as the cuatro. From age 13 to 20, he worked as a DJ in several local clubs, and at age 16 was keyboard player and composer in the punk rock band Toque de Queda.
Venezuela portal The main articles for this category are cuatro (instrument) and Music of Venezuela . This set category contains articles about Venezuelan musicians who play the cuatro .
Not only does Venezuela not share law enforcement data, but it has also largely refused to take its nationals back on deportation flights. Some Venezuelans can be removed from the U.S. by land ...
Venezuelan-cuatro players (2 P) Pages in category "Venezuelan musical instruments" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.