The singer -songwriter’s car collided with a bus, according to images that circulate on Facebook.
With a style that fuses rock, ballad, jazz and son, a mixture of novelty and improvisation, its MusicA represents the expressiveness of the Cuban, the Ecured site reviews. His music also evokes popular roots, creativity and current sonorities that make it unique
His musical preparation began at 18 at the Ignacio Cervantes Conservatory of Music, where he received clarinet classes and caught the attention of the teachers for his voice, which is why he changed his specialty for the song. And did it by Luis Carbonell.
He acted in the Cabarets of the National Hotel and Del Capri, where director Adalberto Álvarez discovered his talent and made him part of his orchestra, with which he toured several stages.
He was one of the founders of the Dan Den orchestra, directed by Juan Carlos Alfonso, a group that in his first year of launch conquered awards and a main place in the popularity lists on the island. Popularized with Alfonso The smoke of life (ash and butt). It was from that moment that he was known as Paulito FG.
In 1989, he recorded his debut album with Opus 13, directed by Joaquín Betancourt. Most of the songs of that first album are of their authorship, thus showing his talent as a composer, Ecured said.
It was with that group Rque ealized his first international presentations, at the Finland Winter Festival and then in Mexico.
Fundo Paulito FG and his elite, shortly after his return to Cuba. In 1993, he recorded You don’t calculate methe first album with its own group, which was released in the Cuban capital and Tokyo. Production was a musical success in Cuba and Japan thanks to the collaboration of producer Ryu Murakami with Sony. He then signed with the Magic Music label and consolidated among the favorite artists of the Cuban public.
He was one of the protagonists of the so -called “salsa boom” on the island in the 1990s, and for more than three decades of artistic career, Cuban music led to stages of about twenty countries, including Colombia, Spain, France, Italy, Mexico and the United States.
He published 13 salsa, boleros and Timba albums, an evolution of the sauce with greater rhythmic complexity, among them “you do not calculate me”, “stifling you”, “the good is me”, “illusion”, “a little of to (everything) and” open what I go. “
In 2022, he recorded his most recent musical production, Keep singing Celinaa tribute to singer of peasant music Celina González (1929-2015), baptized the “Queen of the fields of Cuba”.
Born on January 11, 1962 in Havana, Paulo FG had the artistic influence of his mother, Cary Gall, who was a poet, writer and art teacher.
The news of Paulo FG’s death has dismayed the world of music. Rosa Marquetti, musicographer, manifested before the loss.
“You will have to spend time for the impact of your death to sediment deeper ideas about what Paulo Fernández Gallo, Paulo FG, has meant in the dance music of the last 35-40 years. Today I prefer enjoy!), From a convenient distance, the raising of that tall, thin girl, Dress to Kill (Dress to kill), and with a voice and a “attacker” way to make them anchored in the memory where the big ones, Cuní, Barroso, Embale, Benny, but that brought the freshness of his generation and the handsome of the neighborhood resonated. I loved Paulito. It was like him Latin Lover Timbero From my necessary silence, I was fascinated to see his dialogues with Francis Cabezas Osuna, the owner and founder of the Magic Music label, who, just that is, always saw his extraordinary potential and worked to spread it and project it internationally. I loved seeing how Paulito defended what, in music, wanted to do, how he didn’t want to lose a millimeter of his career control, from what he was: a safe guy of his talent and his unique paths to “stick” always from music, “he said.
Also, Marquetti highlighted the artist’s skills and talent.
“A leader on the platform, capable of enervating to the climax to a crowd the same in the tropical than in the canoe, of hit how much choir he would imagine, to quell a whole country and put him to sing already dance at will. A tremendous improviser, a versatile singer, excellent the same in the timba as in the boleros (where sometimes, with that handsome he Postmodern laserie); My sauceits spectacular and “speculator” arrival at Backstage in the first concert of Team Cuba that closed part of the Havana Prado; With Manolín, the doctor of the salsa, in his legendary and prolonged duel of image, songs, inspirations, puyas and provocations as one of the many history of today’s string, set melee that never knew if they were real or invented, but that without a doubt, because we are as we are, they joined as one more element to the popular worship at that stage where the suffocator of Havana was one kings. I know that it is always said that someone dies, although sometimes it is not true, but to all that Paulo added to be a very good person. I was already preparing to see a show of his, after so long, when it was presented, as it was already announced, in Madrid on April 26. It will not be. Only his music will remain and the memory of the times when we were happy with him. Rest in peace, in Son, Timba and Music, dear Paulo “
