Jose Cupertino Rios

One hundred and twenty years ago, he was born in Camaguán, in the south of the Guárico state, in the middle of the Venezuelan plain, this exceptional harpist and exceptional composer. It comes to the world a day of San Jose, on March 19, 1878, in a historical moment and in a region of the country where the possibility of sound recording was something distant, not to say unthinkable, and where the musical score was a gadget more than useless for a population that barely knew the alphabet. Died in complete oblivion and the most extreme poverty in El Samán, a town in Bajo Apure, on September 16, 1945, José Cupertino Ríos never knew the success that in the years immediately after his death would begin to charge llanera music - and in particular his own music