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Adolfo Mejia
7+ albums
columbian
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Adolfo Mejía Navarro (San Luis de Since, February 5, 1905 - Cartagena de Indias, July 6, 1973) is considered one of the most important musicians and composers in the musical history of Colombia. Born in the municipality of San Luis de Since , then Municipality of the Department of Bolívar and which is currently in the department of Sucre in Colombia . He is the son of Adolfo Mejía Valverde , treble player, juggler, goldsmith and artist, and Francisca Navarro. He is taken by his parents to the city of Cartagenaat the age of 11 years. Mejía Navarro had contact from an early age with live music played by his father and other Since musicians. She lived her childhood and adolescence in the walled neighborhood of San Diego where her love for Cartagena began to flourish, which was later poetically portrayed in the renowned bolero Cartagena. Likewise, she began to discover her talent for musical composition. He entered the Normal School of instructors. Later he participated in the choir of San Pedro Claver and in 1918 he began his professional studies at the University of Cartagena in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. He initially belonged to the Estudiantentina Revollo with Victor Turpín, then he played in the Eureka Orchestra ., and later belonged to the so-called first Colombian jazz orchestra, the Jazz Band Lorduy Orchestra. He spoke Arabic, Greek, German, French, Italian, and English, in addition to his mother tongue, Spanish. Adolfo Mejía was a bohemian man. In his spar
