03/11/2021 7:41 PM
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Folklorist
Coco Díaz
, who contributed to the genre as a popular composer, singer and comedian, representative of a traditional style, died this Thursday, March 11
at the age of 85 because of a cancer
that had him abused, informed Télam close to the musician.
Born
Pedro Joaquín Castro in the Santa Fe city of Tostado
, where a square bears his pseudonym, he was the author of hits such as
Del tiempo de mi niñez
,
El mimoso
and
Se burns el rancho
, which led him to sell more than five million records.
The beginnings of his artistic career, at the beginning of 1960, were spent in the group Los cantores de Salavina, where he was the first voice, but in 1966 the EMI Odeón label presented him as a soloist, after several national tours with the group, programs of radio and recordings.
Coco Díaz sold more than 5 million records, throughout her career.
That year he achieved
his first success when he presented in Cosquín con
Pará que tiá conta
, a song he performed for the first time using the pseudonym with which he would be known from then on.
During those years, he received 3 gold records and several other awards that certify the massiveness he achieved in sales, on horseback of stories of knives, drunkenness and chronicles of "skirt issues" unthinkable nowadays.
Numerous national and international tours through the United States, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile and Australia, radio and television programs and
more than 40 recorded albums
were achieving that Díaz's career was taken into account by his peers and by an audience that accompanied him. throughout his career.
Since 1978, and for six consecutive years, Coco had its radio program
El rancho de Coco Díaz
on Radio Colonia, with
its strongest audience in the most popular sectors
, both from the countryside and from urban workers who started their workday in the very first morning.
Artists who were taking their first steps in folklore passed through his program: Viviana Vigil, Hugo Giménez Agüero, Raúl Palma "el chango de Anta", the payo Oroná and many others.
Coco played the music of fellow traditional singers and also that of artists who were just starting out in the world of music.
The respect that his colleagues paid him was reflected in the celebration of his 35 years in music, which he held at the Presidente Alvear Theater with artists such as
Jairo
,
Peteco Carabajal
,
Chango Nieto
, Cuti and Roberto Carabajal, Luis Landriscina, Los 4 from Córdoba, Los Tucu Tucu and La chacarerata from Santiago, among others.
After the turn of the century,
Coco Díaz maintained an intense activity
, mainly in the festival circuit spread throughout the country and on tours that took him to the United States and Australia.
Despite the fact that in his repertoire the chamarritas, rancheras and chamamé occupied the most prominent place,
Díaz encompassed different styles of Argentine folk music
, and had in the chacarera
Del tiempo de mi niñez
one of the high points of his production.
The song, inspired by the childhood days that he lived in Tostado, was recorded by artists of the stature of Chango Nieto, Coco Banegas,
Alfredo Abalos
,
Mercedes Sosa
, Enrique Espinosa, Juanjo Domínguez, Soledad and Chaqueño Palavecino, among others.
In addition to music, Díaz had a stable participation in television cycles of traditional humor and popular music such as
El humor de mi País
,
La spark from my people
and
De lo Nuestro con humor
.
Father of María Eugenia and Juan Martín, who knew how to support the folkloric duo Los Díaz fly by,
Coco's remains will be buried in the Esteban Echeverría cemetery
, in the Buenos Aires town of Monte Grande, where he lived.
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