Ángel Medardo Luzuriaga

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Medardo and the second or maternal family name is Luzuriaga.

Ángel Medardo Luzuriaga (14 September 1935 – 19 June 2018) was an Ecuadorian musical artist, precursor of the Andean cumbia.[1]

Biography Medardo was born in Loja on 14 September 1935,[2] and in his music he extolled the beauty of the Ecuadorian territory, especially that of the province of Manabí. On 11 September 1967, he founded the orchestra "Don Medardo y sus Players", a group with which he had a record production of 105 albums. He died on June 19, 2018, at the age of 82 in the city of Quito[3] [4]

References

1. Adiós a "Don Medardo", un ícono de la música nacional (in Spanish)
2. Biografia de Don Medardo y sus Players (in Spanish)
3. Fallece Ángel Medardo Luzuriaga, fundador de Don Medardo y sus Players (in Spanish)
4. Don Medardo Luzuriaga, el precursor de la cumbia andina, falleció este martes 19 de junio (in Spanish)