Luis Laguna

Luis Alfredo Laguna (lah-goo'-nah) (May 1, 1926 – August 1, 1984)

Luis Laguna
was a Venezuelan musician and songwriter.[1]

Born in the tiny city of Guacara, Carabobo, Laguna moved at an early

age with his family to Maracay, Aragua, where he grew up and
started his education. Largely self-taught, he excelled as a gifted
guitarist and prolific songwriter, while creating a distinctive style of
his own by using contemporary harmonies and rhythms as well as
gorgeous melodies in his works. Author of significant Venezuelan
waltzes and joropos, he also had a strong predilection for the
merengue caraqueño. Some of his most popular songs are Al poeta,
Criollísima, Golosinas criollas, El saltarín, El tramao, Mi merengue,
Nathalia, Serenata, S.O.S. and Un heladero con clase, among
others.[1]

Laguna died in 1984 at his home of Maracay at the age of 58,

following complications from diabetes.[1]
Born May 1, 1926
Guacara, Carabobo,
Sources Venezuela

1. Peñin, José; Guido, Walter. (1998). Enciclopedia de la Died August 1, 1984

Música en Venezuela. Fundación Bigott, Caracas. (aged 58)
ISBN 978-980-6428-03-4. Maracay, Aragua,
Venezuela
External links Occupation Musician, songwriter

Official website (https://web.archive.org/web/20151222121256/http://www.luislaguna.com/Biogr

afia.html)
Sheet Music List (http://www.musicanet.org/cgi-bin/epeios.cgi?_target=gesbib&_skin=Musica&
_session=&_language=es&List=19&ApplyQuery=&Pattern.16=$17365&$Profile=S&composite
ur=Laguna,%20Luis)

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