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Charango: Jaime Guardia, Virgenes del Sol

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Jaime Guardia
(1933 - ) is a Peruvian charango player and singer. Considered a master of the Ayacucho regional style of traditional Andean music and one of the world's finest charango players, he has performed and recorded as a solo act and with the group Lira Paucina.
 

The charango is a small South American stringed instrument of the lute family, about 66 cm long, traditionally made with the shell of the back of an armadillo. It typically has 10 strings in five courses of 2 strings each, although other variations exist.

Jorge Bravo de Rueda (1895 - 1940) was a Peruvian pianist and composer. Inspired by the huaynos of Andean music, he composed the internationally popular tune for guitar and pan flutes "Virgenes del Sol", possibly the second best-known Peruvian song worldwide after "El Condor Pasa".
 

 

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