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Azucar a granel camilo azuquita biography
Camilo ‘Azuquita’ - A Black Man from Panama - ()
In Colón, Panama, on February 18, , Luis Camilo Argumédez was born to parents who were both singers of Cuban son and Panamanian tamborito (an African-derived music form).
Camilo showed a gift and passion for music from an early age and began to sing and compose as a teenager.
Camilo participated in a contest for amateur singers run by RPC Radio twice, winning the second time and, by the s, he was performing boleros and guaguancó with local orchestras such as Raúl Ortiz, Universal, Alegría de Chachi Macías and René Santos y su conjunto.
The word soon spread about the Panamanian with a bewitchingly versatile and delicate voice and, at the age of 15, Camilo signed his first professional contract to sing internationally with the Enrique Lynch orchestra in Peru.
With a reputation that preceded him, the gifted singer soon made his way to Puerto Rico in the mids where he made his first international recording as lead vocalis