Venezuelan musician and composer José Enrique chelik Sarabia (Asunción, Isla de Margarita, 1940), a reference in the popular song of Venezuela and recognized for his work throughout Latin America, has died in the city of Lechería, Anzoátegui State, in the coastal east of the country, at the age of 81 .
Sarabia is remembered for being the author of Anxiety, a Venezuelan passage that he composed at the age of 15 and with a meteoric journey in the Spanish-speaking world, covered countless times. The song has been translated into several languages and performed by figures such as Nat King Cole, Lucho Gatica, Sara Montiel, Alfredo Sadel, Olga Guillot, Javier Solís, Dyango or María Marta Serra Lima.
Sarabia had gone to Caracas in the 1950s, still very young, from the San Tomé oil field, in the east of the country, with the intention of studying music. At that time he composed his first theme, Janet and Santome.
Thanks to her unusual talent, Chelique Sarabia managed to open the doors of television and local entertainment relatively quickly. In the 1960s he was accepted into the command of talent scouts and promoters on the national scene, and was an authority on the confines of the art world and music appreciation.
At that time, in spaces such as El Club Musical, and Ritmo y Color de Venezuela, Sarabia captured and projected to the entertainment industry a group of performers and talents then on the rise, idols of the audience later, such as José Luis Rodríguez, the sisters María Teresa and Rosa Virginia Chacín, Henry Stephen, the group Los Impala and Cherry Navarro. She sponsored several of them in her first recording projects. Some time later, he debuted as presenter and host of the space Half an hour with Cheliquebroadcast by Radio Caracas Television.
Sarabia developed a discography in which popular Latin American genres go hand in hand with Venezuelan rhythms, and which had its moment of greatest splendor in the sixties. The Society of Authors and Composers of Venezuela, Sacven, treasures more than 2,000 of his works, including songs and jingles promotional, as he himself confirmed on several occasions. Some of them are part of a well-founded local contemporary cultural tradition: Chinita from Maracaibo, hymn to friendship, When I don’t know about you, The Stone Curlew and My soul is hurting.
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Man also linked to the advertising industry, personally close to Democratic Action [el partido fundador del sistema democrático de 1958]Sarabia is well known for being the author of several jingles and spots linked to political marketing and electoral struggles in the placid years of civil governments in the country, linked to the oil boom at the end of the 20th century. Most especially, That man does walk, composed for the first presidential candidacy of Carlos Andrés Pérez, in 1973; andwho are you with, companion? for the electoral campaign of Luis Piñerúa Ordaz, which are part of the auditory memory of generations of Venezuelans.
In 1984, he unanimously wins the contest for the composition of the anthem of the city of Caracas, in collaboration with the teacher Tiero Pezzutti; and some time later he receives the task of composing the anthem of the Urbaneja municipality, Anzoátegui State, where he lived and where he died.
Although from the 1980s his record releases began to be spaced out, his prolific legacy has been cultivated and treated with enormous respect for decades by local and international critics. In 2015, Chelique Sarabia received a Latin Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement in recognition of her contribution to Latin American popular music of all time.
“I am a man of faith and I believe in destiny. Everyone comes to this world with his script under his arm, with a program that is fulfilled as the years go by, “he said in an interview with the portal The Stimulus about six years ago. “Simply, one comes to this world to purify the spirit with respect to some problem from previous lives. But you also need a bit of luck and, by the way, I’ve had it. In addition to genetic information, a bit of luck is always necessary to know how to take advantage of opportunities, and I think I have taken advantage of them.”
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