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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Gabino Ezeiza |
| Born | February 3, 1858 |
| Origin |  Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Died | October 12, 1916 (aged 58) Córdoba Province, Argentina |
| Genres | payador |
| Occupations | Musician, Songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar |
Gabino Ezeiza, nicknamed "Black Gabino" or "Don Gabino" (February 3, 1858 – October 12, 1916), was an Argentine musician.
Early life
Gabino Ezeiza was born February 3, 1858 in the district of San Telmo, in Buenos Aires. Little is known about of his Personal life.
Career
The second half of the nineteenth century was the birthplace of payadores, poets and artists. The poet and musician Ezeiza Gabino was one of the most recognized payadores. For its surprising ease for improvisation became famous as a popular singer. He composed over 600 compositions. He had a wonderful ability to make verses. The improvised at the time and had a perfect ear for the measure, cadence and rhyme, he came out perfect.
Their exploits were known and frequent encounters with other payadores and challenges. To cite some examples, in 1891 held a payada with Nemesio Trejo who was memorable as it lasted three nights. In 1912 faced with Betinotti Jose, who later became his disciple, in a circus that operated in Venezuela and Maza, in the neighborhood of Boedo. Francisco Pi and Suñer wrote: "It was the troubadour of the pampa. In those days of very small population that Argentina lived the life of the pastoralists, was the wandering bard and vagabond who would mess with his guitar in ranch and pulpería in pulpería, glossing the most notable events, recalling the high deeds of famous men, carrying everywhere palpitations national soul. Son of people and raised among the people, identified with the clothes, with men of the people and poetic and solemn way he sang his cuitas and their joys, their hopes and aspirations. "
Until the emergence of Gabino Ezeiza singing of payadores is characterized by being anonymous. The payada of counterpoint, difficult art based on pure improvisation, was cultivated by very few elected who left their ballads from town to town. Sarmiento wrote in Facundo: "The singer walks payment payment, tapera warehouse in singing their heroes prosecuted, the widow cries of the Indians who stole their children malón in a recent defeat and death of the brave Rauch The catastrophe of Facundo Quiroga and the fate that he quota to Santos Perez. "
Gabino Ezeiza is remembered as one of the most famous in the art of pay, both in his homeland as Argentina in Uruguay. Their counterpoints passed into history. Always remember which stood at Paysandu (Uruguay) with mentado eastern Juan de Nava on July 23, 1884. That encounter was witnessed by a large auditorium and to the state side to him publicly eastern improvised there which would be the song "Heroic Paysandu." In memory of that pay, in Argentina is celebrated on July 24 as the Day of payador.
In addition to tour the villages in the interior with his art and his guitar. he did also with a circus of their property: the so-called "Argentine Pavilion", who lost in a fire in the year 1893. Recorded discs, and collected his poems in the booklet "Songs to the Fatherland." Both Gardel as harrison Razzano knew him in the political committees at the beginning of last century, as almost all payadores of the time. That knowledge was treated friend in the wheel of the popular "Cafe de los Angelitos," Rivadavia and gamers. A plaque placed at Blue 92, in the neighborhood of Flores, reminds the black Gabino Ezeiza.[1]
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