Jorge "Lobito" Martínez

Jorge Eladio Martínez Ayala
Background information
Birth name Jorge Eladio Martínez Ayala
Also known as Lobito
Born (1952-05-11)May 11, 1952
Asunción, Py
Died January 10, 2003(2003-01-10) (aged 50)
Asunción, Py
Occupation(s) Musician
Associated acts

“Canto para tí” “Que más da” “Carola”

“Juego de niños”

Jorge "lobito" Martinez is a Paraguan musician. He was born in Asunción, Paraguay’s capital, on May 11, 1952, son of the singer, guitarist, composer, and folklorist Eladio Martínez and Aida Ayala.

First steps

He studied piano with Margarita Morosoli de Picardo from age 6 to 11, and then with Nelly Jimenez, Pedro Burian and at the Leonor Aranda's High Pianistic Studies Institute. His harmony teachers were Luis Cañete and Carlos Schwartzman.

From age 22 and until 1983 he was part of the pop group “Los Aftermad's;” with them he recorded many albums, including songs written by him. In the 80s he was part of the jazz group “Opus 572,” and he mostly offered classic piano recitals on his own.

Career

Year Stand out activity
1986 He spent a week in a musical clinic in Buenos Aires, from the Berkeley College of Music, making a decisive impression to get a scholarship to continue his studies in the central of this World Wide famous music institution in Boston, United States
1988 A Fulbright scholarship allowed him to study at the Berkeley College of Music in Boston, where he graduated in jazz performance, composition, arrangements and improvisations.
1991 He was assigned headline teacher of the Berkeley College piano department, where he developed the subject of “Music with Latin rhythms” for two more years. He was awarded the “Count Basie” From the Argentina’s Berkeley Summer School award.
Middle 90’s He came back to Paraguay, where he offered piano recitals, and dedicated to teaching and composition.
1997 He directed orchestras for the national editions of the OTI Festival (Iberoamerican Television Organization). He also coordinated and directed the release of CDs of Paraguayan music made by the prestigious Paraguayan morning newspaper ABC Color.
1998 At the request of the Sower Group (main referent of the movement called “New Popular Paraguayan Song book”), the Philomusical Orchestra directed by Luis Szarán and the Paraguayan Choir directed by Luis Luccini Rivas, he was part of a memorable recital cycle in the CPJ (Paraguayan Japanese Center) in Asuncion. As a result of having “Lobito Martínez” as main musician, the journal ABC Color released many thousands of copies of a CD called “En las colinas del alma” (in the soul hills) commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Sower Group. “En las Colinas del alma” was a very anthological review of the popular Paraguayan songs of all times.

Discography

Among his main works:

Last years

He died at the age of 50, murdered, in January, 2003.

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