Bogota, Oct. 21 (EFE). – The Colombian singer Carlos Vives announced this on Monday at the end of the band La Provincia, when he was recently heard by his accordionist Edigio Cuadrado, who performed on Monday in Bogotá.

“Murió la provincia,” written by Vives in a published message at the table of

He later told Blu Radio that he suffered the fall of his inseparable comrade, who was in a clinic in Bogotá at the age of 71, marking the end of an era from the “Natural Province with them”.

Recording the band’s origins at the age of 90, Vives explained: “The provincial was the music of the young rock musicians from Bogota with the musical pieces of the province (…) the music of all my farmers with many urbano”.

“With the death of my comrade Egidio, I cannot say that this moment in history is true,” he added.

Vives, who internationalized the music with the band’s first album entitled “Clásicos de La Provincia” (1994), said she was “selling even more” on the future of their joint musical.

“I think this name is different (…) I think with the Muerte of my comrade Egidio, definitely my Banda deja de lamarse así,” said the author.

Egidio Cuadrado, born in 1953 in the Villanueva area, in the Caribbean department of La Guajira, was admitted a few days ago to the Colombian Clinic in Bogotá because of a case of neumonia, having been admitted a few years ago.

“I had difficulties years ago because of the pandemic,” Vives wrote about his accordionist’s health.

When he was crowned at the Festival de la Leyenda Vallenata of 1985, he was asked to exit, and a few years later Carlos Vives was asked to accompany him in the province.

“The Fundación Festival de la Leyenda Vallenata laments the fall of Rey Vallenato 1985, Egidio Rafael Cuadrado Hinojosa, and sends its condolences to his girlfriend Fanny Maldonado, his friends José Luis and Katerine, his friends, relatives, his comrade Carlos Vives,” publishes Im In connection with X, the organization of this festival, music is the most important.

In 1993, Vives was the protagonist of the telenovela “Escalona”, inspired by the life of the composer Rafael Escalona, ​​​​as he accompanied him on the accordion and the following year read “Clásicos de La Provincia”, a new version of songs that he had incorporated into the ESA transformed music from northern Colombia into a window of the country’s winds and fire.

On this album you can hear, among others, classic songs such as “La gota fría”, “El cantor de Fonseca”, “Alicia adorada”, “Amor sensitive” and “Matilde Lina”, which catapult themselves into the province.

Luego vino otra docena de álbumes, like “La tierra del olvido”, “Tengo fe”, “Clásicos de La Provincia II” and “Corazón profundo”, among others and the pareja de Vives y Cuadrado, accompanied by the dusk And the Mochila Arhuaca that needs it is accompanied by the scenarios of the world.

Together with Carlos Vives, he received several Grammy Awards and Grammy Latinos.

Egidio Cuadrado was at home the next morning in a cemetery in northern Bogotá. EFE

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