Ángel Custodio Loyola

Ángel Custodio Loyola (September 4, 1926 – September 24, 1985), was a Venezuelan singer and composer, better known for being pioneering at the diffusion of joropo and the popular music of the Venezuelan plains, also for being defender of the country’s folklore, and his work for the masification of Venezuelan music, popularizing and being author of songs like: El Gavilán, Tierra Negra, Carnaval, Sentimiento Llanero, Catira Marmoleña, Faenas Llaneras, Puerto Miranda, among others.

Life and career

First years

<!-- Deleted image removed: -->Been born at the Mata Arzolera, a small village of El Socorro, Guárico, Venezuela, from very young starts at the farm work, circumstance by which only study until the fourth grade of primary school at Calabozo, in 1940 starts to hear the music of the Venezuelan plains, being fan of singers like Eliseo Flores, Juan de la Cruz Perez, Ricardo Acevedo, Ramón Delgado and Ángel Acevedo. From that, his primordial interest was being interpreter and singer, leaving his home without the consent of his father, to go to Calabozo, where he would initiate his career as folk singer. After informal and occasional presentations, at the age of 18 sings for the first time like guest, at the Oliveros ranch. Some years before this, several singers and harpists seen Loyola in a presentation at El Berraco, in Barinas. His discoverers were Germán Fleitas Beroes, Pedro Azopardo, Rafael Hurtado Rondón and Mariano Hurtado Rondón, who heard...
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