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Narciso Yepes (1927 – 1997) was a Spanish classical guitarist. Yepes was born into a poor family in Lorca, Spain on November 14, 1927. His father gave him his first guitar when he was four years old. He took his first lessons from Jesús Guevara in Lorca. Later his family moved to Valencia when the Spanish Civil War started in 1936. When he was 13 he was accepted to study at the Conservatorio de Valencia with the pianist and composer Vicente Asencio. On December 16, 1947 he performed Joaquín Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez with conductor Ataúlfo Argenta, which brought him...

Narciso Martínez (Reynosa, Mexico, October 29, 1911 – June 5, 1992, San Benito, Texas, USA) was a conjunto accordionist. Martínez dubbed early on, El Huracan del Valle ("The Hurricane of the Valley"), began recording in 1936, on October 21 precisely, and is the father of conjunto music. The Spanish word conjunto means 'group' and in El Valle de Tejas that means accordion, bajo sexto, and contrabajo (string bass, known locally also as "el tololoche"). Don Narciso, the first widely successful conjunto recording artist, made hundreds of recordings of mostly instrumental dance tunes emphasizing the melody side of the accordion and...

Sebastián Yepes is a Colombian musician, well known as the ex-vocalist of band Sanalejo. In 2009, he released his first solo single "No Me Veré Caer" as the lead single from his forthcoming first solo studio album De Lo Oscuro a Lo Puro. www.sebastianyepes.com .