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Garzón y Collazos
12+ albums
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In the mid-1930s, Darío Garzón was part of the musical group The Four Merry Boys of Ibagué . In 1937, when one of the guitarists left the group, Eduardo Collazos joined as a replacement. After the dissolution of the group at the end of 1938 and, because of their similar musical Garzón and Collazos interests, they decided to form a duo in which they would play the guitar and the tiple , respectively. In 1950 they moved to Bogotá , where they started recording with the Sonolux record company in its heyday. They also recorded with the companies Lyra, Vergara and Codiscos, amassing a catalog that includes 216 songs. The duo explored different traditional genres of Colombian music, such as the hallway , the bambuco , the guabina , the bunde , the torbellino , the rajaleña and even the waltz . Their wide repertoire included versions of songs composed by José A. Morales , Jorge Villamil , Luis Dueñas Perilla , Rafael Godoy , Adolfo Lara , Pedro J. Ramos , Anselmo Durán , Luis Carlos González , Alberto Urdaneta and Leonor Buenaventura de Valencia . They also worked with songs by foreign composers, such as Enrique del Fino , Mabel Wayne , Guty Cárdenas , Alfonso Esparza Oteo , Ramón Carrasco and Rafael Barros . They toured in Colombia and, several other countries including Cuba , Mexico, Puerto Rico, Honduras , Ecuador, Venezuela , Argentina , Brazil and, Chile. They also performed in the United States , playing at the Carnegie Hall concert hall Due to their popularity they
