Gustavo Adolfo Palma
Gustavo Adolfo Palma ( born August 31, 1920 in Jutiapa, Guatemala, † December 1, 2009 in Guatemala City ) was a popular tenor of Guatemala, who was also called at the height of his career, " The tenor of Central America ".
Life
Palma was born the son of Cecilio Palma y Palma and Piedad Recinos. When he was 7 years old, the family moved to Guatemala City, where Palma spent his school years.
At the age of 14 he entered the theater ' April ' in programs that have been compiled by Guillermo Anleu, as a singer on. In 1936 he made his radio debut and was heard every week in the transmitter TGN, which belonged to Miguel Angel Mejicanos radio program. At 17, occurred Palma ( The Voice of Guatemala ) on the transmitter and TGW was a year later, in 1938, taken for 4 years from the national tobacco industry under contract to exclusively every Saturday afternoon for TGW to sing.
At age 19, he received singing lessons from Martha Bolanos de Prado, one of his time known singing teacher.
In October 1944, at age 24, he won the competition 'Journey to Mexico ' and was honored by the Mexican singer Pedro Vargas. Then Palma Fixed Radio Singer of the Mexican station was NEW ( ' voice of Latin America '). There he sang together with Jorge Negrete and was accompanied by well-known radio orchestras.
Although the contract in Mexico was originally supposed to only run one month was Gustavo Palma arrested for his success with the public for 10 months as an exclusive artist under contract and made recordings with the Columbia Records company and Musart.
Palma continued his career in Guatemala, where he sang in 1947 with Pedro Infante. In 1955 he played in the movie "The Black Christ " by Raul Martinez and Rosa Carmina with, which was shot in Guatemala by the Spanish producer Jose Baviera.
Later, in 1956, he was elected in the competition of the newspaper Mundo Libre ( free world ) for most popular singers. In 1964 he participated in the Central American Song Festival in El Salvador, where he my love of Marco Tulio Cordon won a prize with the song that night. In October 1970 he was guest of honor of the first song festival in Central America and the Caribbean in Panama, which was organized by the brothers Rigual together with the government. He sang the original song with you and was accompanied by an orchestra under the direction of Jorge Sarmiento. In this festival, he sang along with Pedro Vargas.
His last record was the title of yesterday, today and forever and came out in 1971 under the name Palma. 1982, at the age of 62 years, Palma participated at the Festival Broadway 82, which took place at the National Theatre. There seemed to Ricardo Arjona, who was not known internationally at this time still early in his career and.