Gonzalo Benítez

Ecuadorian musician and composer Gonzalo Benítez Gómez, born in Otavalo-Ecuador on January 14th 1915, died September 5th 2005 in Quito-Ecuador (1915 - 2005), he acted as a duo with Luis Alberto Valencia . Gonzalo Benitez and Luis Alberto Valencia were kingpins of the musica nacional movement in Ecuador.

They began singing as a duo in their mid-teens. During twenty-eight years together they recorded more than six hundred songs, for Discos Ecuador, Nacional, Granja, Ortiz, Rondador, Onix, Fuente, Real, Tropical, Fadisa, RCA Victor — and of course CAIFE.
Gonzalo Benitez was the first voice in the Duo Benitez Valencia, along with Luis Alberto Valencia the second voice, they established the Musica Nacional Ecuatoriana in Ecuador with their style of interpretation.

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