Aquiles Báez

Aquiles Alejandro Báez Reyes (March 1, 1964 – September 12, 2022),[1] better known as Aquiles Báez, was a Venezuelan musician, arranger, and composer.

Biography

Báez studied and grew up in the Venezuelan capital, but spent a significant part of his childhood in La Vela de Coro. His childhood trips were to a 17th-century house owned by his family, near the site where Francisco de Miranda first raised the Venezuelan tricolor flag in 1806. This house is known as "La Casa Azul" (The Blue House). Aquiles Báez composed a song of that name, which was included on his third album and catapulted him to fame.

He became interested in music thanks to his older brother, Julio, who taught him to play the cuatro. He then took lessons in viola, mandolin, and percussion.[2]

His life ended while he was on a tour called the Europa Tour September 2022, performing new songs and planning to visit 10 cities in countries such as Spain, Switzerland, France, Germany, and Portugal.[3] Additionally, Báez had planned to release a book of her musical compositions and another of songs and guitar pieces.[1]

Báez released seventeen albums, more than 200 recordings with other artists, and participated in concerts with musicians such as: Aquiles Machado, Carlos Aguirre, Dawn Upshaw, Ed Simon, Ensamble Gurrufío, Farred Haque, Giora Feidman, Ilan Chester, John Patitucci, Lucia Pulido, Luciana Souza, Luisito Quintero, Marco Granados, Mariana Baraj, Mike Marshall, Nana Vasconcelos, Oscar Stagnaro, Paquito D'Rivera, Raúl Jaurena, Richard Bona, Simón Díaz, and Worlds of Guitars, among others.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Fallece el músico venezolano Aquiles Báez este lunes en Alemania". El Universal (in Spanish). 2022-12-09. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
  2. ^ Pinton, Cambur (2014-03-20). "Aquiles Báez - TuCuatro". CamburPinton (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-09-12.
  3. ^ "Muere guitarrista y compositor venezolano Aquiles Báez". Infobae. 2022-09-12. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  4. ^ "Aquiles Báez". www.aquilesbaez.net (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-09-12.

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