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bolero Agustine Velez, patriarch boleros collectors admired

By Jose Emilio Castellanos
from Puerto Rico

Allan The day he arrived home from Caguas his grandfather was filled with emotion as if before the birth of their first child. Immediately had to solve another issue. Without thinking went out in a short time was back with a giant truck cava. Then came the hard task of moving what was in the room to take his grandson, one of the most valuable and comprehensive collections of Latin American popular music on the Continent. Thus was born Study-library-disco on wheels. (In the graph, Agustine Velez, Jose Emilio Castellanos.)

's grandfather is not given to write, but when he speaks becomes a captivating writer, a kind of oral historian in the field of popular music American. It would be difficult to find information with strict order and keep his memory conceptualization: dates, characters, anecdotes, in a monologue that flows with the excitement of a professor before his disciples.

So are the games at home, surrounded by guitars, stories, great figures of the past 50 years, members of famous trios filled with stories and music to a whole continent. Or legends of the stature of Blanca Rosa Gil.

These Agustine Velez Jimenez, who had the good fortune of meeting in the International Latin Music Conference which addressed the issue of Bolero, held at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, 2002. Were present, among other figures, two legends of the song, Olga Guillot and Ruth Fernandez, figures of the stature of Chucho Avellanet, Rafael Basurto Lara, and a group of academics and scholars. Everything went behind closed doors in a basement near the main castle.

Augustine is a native of Arecibo, and grew up in Manati and Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. To not get in trouble say that I was born after World War II but before ... His passion for music comes from his father, a teacher, who had been living between harmonies and rhythms of the time, tangos, paso dobles, Couples, waltz ... and boleros.

will soon publish an interview he recently did to Augustine Velez in Puerto Rico. For now, we know his passion in his own words, to respond to the thesis of Montenegro Orlando Rolon, who believes that the bolero is heading into oblivion. The two papers it showed them in the previous pages.