Puchi Balseiro - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Puchi Balseiro, November 1, 1926 – January 11, 2007 born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, was a "feeling" composer.

Early years

Puchi Balseiro, was born in a district of San Juan

San Juan, Puerto Rico

San Juan , officially Municipio de la Ciudad Capital San Juan Bautista , is the capital and most populous municipality in Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 395,326 making it the 46th-largest city under the jurisdiction of...

, called Santurce

Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Santurce is a district of San Juan, Puerto Rico.-Summary:Santurce is one of the top ten most populated areas of the island holding Miramar, Loíza, Isla Grande, Barrio Obrero, and Condado as main cultural hot spots for art, music, cuisine, fashion, hotels, technology, multimedia, film, textile and...

, and comes from a dynasty of great musicians and composers of different genres. Her late grandfather was the distinguished Puerto Rican waltz

Waltz

The waltz is a ballroom and folk dance in time, performed primarily in closed position.- History :There are several references to a sliding or gliding dance,- a waltz, from the 16th century including the representations of the printer H.S. Beheim...

composer: Rafael Balseiro Dávila, also known as: The King of Waltz. Also, Balseiro's, father was a prominent Puerto Rican composer of danzas

Danzas

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, and boleros: Ramón Balseiro Ramos. She was the first woman in the family to follow their steps in the music, yet in different types of music and genres: Bolero

Bolero

Bolero is a form of slow-tempo Latin music and its associated dance and song. There are Spanish and Cuban forms which are both significant and which have separate origins.The term is also used for some art music...

& Pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

Songwriter

She was a natural composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

and guitarist

Guitarist

A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...

. She described her guitar

Guitar

The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

as her best friend, as she used it constantly to compose her songs. Puchi's best known compositions were: "En La Soledad", (In Solitude) and "Tu y mi Canción" (You and my Song). "En la Soledad", was a hit song in the 1970s in the voice of legendary Puerto Rican singer: Tito Rodríguez

Tito Rodriguez

Tito Rodríguez was a popular 1950s and 1960s Puerto Rican singer and bandleader. He is known by many fans as "El Inolvidable" , a moniker based on his most popular interpretation, a song written by composer Julio Gutierrez.-Early years:Rodríguez , born in Santurce, Puerto Rico,...

, although there were previous versions sung by other singers such as: Chucho Avellanet

Chucho Avellanet

Armando Hipólito Avellanet González , nicknamed "Chucho" is a Puerto Rican singer and comedic actor...

, Julio Angel, and Flor de Loto, among others. In the 1990s, Gilberto Santa Rosa

Gilberto Santa Rosa

Gilberto Santa Rosa, also known as "El Caballero de la Salsa" , is a Puerto Rican bandleader and singer of salsa and bolero.-Early years:...

, recorded and had a hit with this song, and with the help of the digital technology, he performed a duet with the original voice of late Tito Rodríguez. "Tu y mi Canción" was a hit song in the 1950s, in the voices of the Puerto Rican vocal quartet: "Los Hispanos"; this song was also recorded in an instrumental version by the: "Dimartino/Osland Jazz Orquestra", in 2004.

Other talents

She was also a singer, producer

Record producer

A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

, script

Manuscript

A manuscript or handwrite is written information that has been manually created by someone or some people, such as a hand-written letter, as opposed to being printed or reproduced some other way...

writer and host

Presenter

A presenter, or host , is a person or organization responsible for running an event. A museum or university, for example, may be the presenter or host of an exhibit. Likewise, a master of ceremonies is a person that hosts or presents a show...

of various radio & television shows. In 1970, Puchi, originated, produced, and directed the: "Festivales del Filin", (The Feeling Festivals). They were concert events that were presented in different theaters and cruise ships on the island. Many singers of those times, were regulars in these spectacles because of their unusual style of interpretation such as, Lucy Fabery

Lucy Fabery

Lucy Fabery, born Luz Ercilia Fabery Zenón , is a Puerto Rican jazz singer. Fabery is also known as "La Muñeca de Chocolate" in recognition of her dark-skinned beauty.-Early years:...

, Renee Barrios, Lydia Sosa, and Flor de Loto, among others.

Television

From 1993 to 1994, she produced and hosted her own television show, broadcasted by WIPR-TV

WIPR-TV

WIPR-TV is an non-commercial educational, full-power public television station located in San Juan, Puerto Rico transmitting over analog channel 6, digital 43. The station is owned and operated by Corporación de Puerto Rico para la Difusión Pública ...

, titled: Usted y mi Mundo (You and My World). The set was a re-creation of a beautiful Chalet, she owned. It was a very intimate musical show.

Death

On January 11, 2007, she died, and the director of the Puerto Rican Culture Institute, Dr. José Luis Vega, stated:
"...Puchi Balseiro's incalculabe cultural legacy, is part of the history of Puerto Rican and Latin American music, and it will serve as a model and good example for future generations of composers...".

External links

http://www.icp.gobierno.pr/portada/coms/balseiro07.htm
http://www.prpop.org/biografias/p_bios/puchi_balseiro.shtml
http://www.prpop.org/noticias/ene07/puchi_balseiro_ene26.shtml
http://www.icp.gobierno.pr/editorial/libros/mar_05/libro_puchibalseiro.htm
http://www.vocero.com/noticias.asp?n=85786&s=Escenario