Lorenzo Humberto Sotomayor

Lorenzo Humberto Sotomayor Lishner was a notable Peruvian pianist, author and composer of Creole music, born on August 10, 1915 in Lima. The music involved him so much that he decided to abandon his studies of letters at the university. He directed the group "Los Chalanes del Perú" in the 40's, which was made up of Gonzalo Barr, Manuel Campos, Ernesto Samamé, José Ladd, Samuel Herrera and Lorenzo Humberto Sotomayor on piano. In 1945 he composed the waltz "Corazón", which would become one of the classic songs of our Creole songbook. Jesús Vásquez made a memorable recording of “Corazón” with the piano accompaniment of Lorenzo Humberto Sotomayor, until now one of the favorite songs in Jesús Vásquez's repertoire. Lorenzo Humberto Sotomayor also owns the waltzes: “Si me amaras”, “Cariño mío”, “Burla”, “El solo”, “Pasión”, “Lima de mis amores”, “Mi Tesoro” and “Mi pain". With the Argentine musician Rodolfo Coltrinari he composed “A Waltz and a Memory”, which served to immortalize the performer Néstor Chocobar. He died on Saturday July 26, 2008 of acute pneumonia.