
BILLO'S CARACAS BOYS en Barranquilla 2009. Concierto en el Hotel el Prado, Sabado 21 de Febrero 2009. Luis María Frómeta was born in Pimentel, Provincia Duarte,Republica Dominicana, on November 15, 1915; he would move with his family to San Francisco de Macorís some years later. The school he attended there had compulsory music lessons, so he learned much of his musical training there. Frómeta and his orchestra arrived in Venezuela in December 1937 with his orchestra to play regularly in a dance club in a Caracas, the Roof Garden. The Santo Domingo Jazz Band did well, but the club owners didn't think the name would stick- so they had Frómeta change it to something more marketeable. Frómeta went along, which got him barred from ever returning to his native Dominican Republic as Trujillo considered the change- "Billo's Caracas Boys"- an insult. Frómeta would continue to play in Venezuela until the fall of Marcos Pérez Jiménez in 1958. Accused of being a supporter of the regime, he was barred by the Asociación Musical de DF y Estado Miranda from ever playing in Venezuela again. Following this, he moved to Cuba to play with a Cuban band there. In 1960, a special session of the National Assembly was convened in Caracas. The purpose was to lift the ban passed on Billo in 1958, which was by then considered to have been unfair. That very same year, Frómeta returned to Venezuela. Last years On April 27, 1988, he suffered a stroke while rehearsing with the Venezuela Symphony <b>...</b>
BILLO'S
CARACAS
BOYS
en
Barranquilla
2009
Salsa
Fania
Colombia
Venezuela
Concierto
Fiesta
Hotel
el
Prado
Luis
María
Frómeta