In the farewell of this Monday, October 21st, the Muerte de la Leyenda del Acordeón was confirmed, Egidio Cuadrado, I was interned at a university for intensive care at the Clínica Colombiana in Bogotá. El artista For Rey Vallenato in 1985.

Your tray will be positioned like a leash The accordion was adopted by the Compañía de Grandes Exponentes like this one Carlos Vives in the La Provincia group.

Nacido en Villanueva, La Guajira, 1953, This accordion has marked an era in the middle of the valley, its music beyond the highest heights in Colombia as in the international scenario.

Her name was heard in the musical ambience of the Caribbean, With an album together with Carlos Vives that Egidio Cuadrado reconstructed the most.

It is a double transformation of the traditional era into a global phenomenon, The music of traditional sounds with the modern sounds that Vives promoted was part of the iconic sounds of “La Gota Fría”, “La Tierra del Olvido” and many more. But Egidio did not just play Carlos Vives' accordion player, but a character who embodied the feeling and culture of La Guajira in her melodies.

Cuadrado learned to begin the accordion of self-taught maneuversfrom a young age, influenced by Vallenato people like Luis Enrique Martínez and Alfredo Gutiérrez. The man who cried in a rural family gave the vallenato the sound band of his day and was delighted by the music he experienced in large scenarios.

Her path to music takes place at festivals and events in Vallenato And so, soon after, I had taken a place because of my innate talent and my ability to hear the music across all the notes.

In 1985, when he met Carlos Vives, I came with an “experiment” musical in which I played guitars, electric guitars and bajos with the accordion and transformed into the Fenome that brought with it the album “Clásicos de la Provincia”.

This disco played much more than just one player, catapulted Carlos Vives not alone, but also Cuadrado, with accordion pasó sonar in the parrandas guajiras and back into scenarios of Europe, the United States and America-Latina.