Today February 9 Julio Alfredo Jaramillo Laurido turns 45 years old. On a day like today, the country came to a standstill, radio stations changed their programming to broadcast his songs, and thousands of people in Latin America mourned the departure of their ‘Mockingbird’.
45 years without Julio Jaramillo: These are the 10 most popular songs of the “Ruiseñor de América”
His voice remained for eternity with legendary songs like Our Oath, Doom, Shadows, Cute Girl, among others. In total, he left 5,000 recorded songs and 350 records for history.
Julio Jaramillo, life, song and legend
1. He has 49 of his own songs
In addition to having lent his voice to songs that became a unique icon in the history of music. Jaramillo wrote his own songs, in total there were 49 that are registered in the Society of Authors and Composers of Ecuador.
Some of these songs were recorded on an album that was released under his own name. In this recording they consist of the corridor Elsa, which according to his biographers was inspired by an impossible love. This disc also includes other songs such as My memories and Guayaquileña.
2. He didn’t just sing hall
JJ is often associated with the hallway genre, many have come to believe that it is the only genre he ever played. However, Jaramillo also experimented with other rhythms such as boleros, with songs like If you came back, Let’s talk, Bitter return, among others.
With his voice rancheras were also heard like Ay mexicanita, little messenger bird, like you used to do among others. And he also interpreted tangos like the well-known song Do not tell me.
3. The most listened to on Spotify
According to a report made by this newspaper in 2018, Julio Jaramillo was the most listened to Ecuadorian artist and soloist on Spotify, during that year. The nightingale of America was number one in this ranking with 278,048 daily listeners in Mexico, Colombia, Lima, Chile and Ecuador. It currently has 2’343,487 monthly listeners.
4. His mother did not want him to be a singer
As stated by his mother Polita Laurido (1935-1978), as a child he hit him on the mouth to take away from little Julio that “crazy” idea of being a singer. But like every mother she ended up supporting his dreams, and his first toy was a wooden guitar. To her he dedicated some songs like To my mother, dear Mother, For you little mother, Mother, holy darling, and some others.
5. He had a one-on-one with Olimpo Cárdenas
Have you ever thought that the voice timbre of Olimpo Cárdenas and Julio Jaramillo are similar? In fact, the two greats of music lent their voices to Fatality, one of the most remembered songs in musical history.
Cárdenas and Jaramillo had a heads up in the central theater, and since then they were called the golden duo of Ecuador. The chroniclers report that the mere news of the musical duel was an event. The locations were sold out and hundreds of fans were left out. That night, the audience gave JJ a standing ovation.
6. He did not want to return to Ecuador
One day Julio Jaramillo said that he did not feel valued as he deserved, and a little disappointed in the situation, he left the country swearing never to return. But it was not like that, JJ returned to the city in the middle of a large number that turned to the airport to receive him.
“That night Guayaquil de mis amores sang and the excited people waved handkerchiefs. Some commented that he returned poor and with his voice spent ”, picks up a note from this Diary.
7. He had 27 children
Julio Jaramillo was married five times and it is not a secret that he had many girlfriends from each place he visited. Some dare to say that women were his greatest weakness.
Informally they point out that the artist had 46 children of various nationalities, but he himself in an interview for Radio Cristal said that there were 27. In this same conversation he admitted that he did not want his children to follow the same path in music since it was marked by many without flavors and bitterness. “Being a singer is not glory”he said in what would be his last interview before his death.
His Ecuadorian children: Julio Francisco, Magali del Rocío, Debby Magali, Oswaldo Ernesto, Ninfa Apolonia, Juan Alfredo, Julio Alfredo, Julio Ángel, Juan Alfredo, Julio Alfredo, Marisela Yolanda, Sandra Julieta, Joselito, Ninfa Patricia, Julia Ninosca , Nadia Josefina, Juan Francisco, Luis Alfredo, Katiuska Polita, Ángel Luis and Luis Alfredo; Venezuelan: Julio Alfonso; Mexican: Julia Marina; Peruvian: Ana Lidia; Chilean: Cecilia Augusta; American: Willy Hers and Colombian Julio Alfonso.
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8. He was veiled for three days
Julio Jaramillo He died on February 9, 1978 at the Domínguez clinic in Guayaquil, where he was admitted for gallbladder cramps. According to the medical part, his death was due to cardiac arrest. When the news of his death came out, nearly two hundred thousand people gathered outside the clinic.
The radio stations interrupted their regular programming and began to broadcast their hits from among the 5,000 songs and 350 long-playing records that he recorded during his career.
His remains were veiled for three days in different places such as the facilities of Radio Cristal, the Hall of Honor of the Municipality of Guayaquil and the Voltaire Paladines Polo Coliseum.
That day among those present were: Carlos Rubira Infante, Eduardo Zurita, Hector Jaramillo, and Oscar Guerra. (YO)
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Source: Eluniverso
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