The Soledad Mayor’s Office regretted the sensitive death this Saturday of the teacher Rafael Campo Miranda.
“A true and inescapable ‘Shipwrecked Lament’ mourns the people of Soledad today, and destiny surprised their countrymen in the midst of the traditional festivities in honor of Saint Anthony of paduawith the sad news of the departure of a “golden soledeño” as he was and will be forever, the teacher Rafael Campo Miranda“, reads the published statement.
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They also expressed: “His memory and work will be forever linked to the month of June, along with San Antonio and the traditions of his town.”
Likewise, the Mayor’s Office of Soledad stated that the maestro constituted a true pillar for the cultural and musical heritage of the Caribbean region, leaving as a legacy some of the most important pieces of Colombia’s musical repertoire.
Topics like ‘Yellow Bird’, ‘Beach, Breeze and Sea’, ‘Among Palm Trees’ and ‘Shipwrecked Lament’among many others, are part of this melodic treasure that fills its native municipality with pride.
His compositions, together with those of Francisco ‘Pacho’ Prince, They give Soledad an enormous status as a musical city, consolidating this territory as a cultural emporium of the Colombian Caribbean.
The mayor Alcira Sandoval Ibáñez sHe pointed out that his administration places the life and work of the teacher Rafael Campo Miranda as an example worthy of imitation by the present and future generations of Soledeños.
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Rafael Campo Miranda
Born in Soledad, Atlántico, on August 7, 1918, at the age of 12 he was taken to live in Barranquilla, where he used to escape to return to his childhood homeland and soak up the music of the Atlantic festivities.
His journey led him to become a composer from the beginning of the 40s, precisely with a first song that he called ‘Beach’, and that other performers later renamed ‘Beach, breeze and sea’.
Later, Rafael Campo Miranda increased his prestige with his famous song ‘Lament Castaway’ originally called “Shipwrecked Memories”. It was one of the anthological songs of Colombian folk and popular music recorded by renowned orchestras of the time such as the Sonora MatanceraBillos Caracas Boys, Lucho Bermúdez, Pacho Galán and La Playa and modern singers such as Juan Carlos Coronel, among others.
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His third international success was the merengue-joropo ‘‘yellow bird’composed in the plains of San Martín (Department of Meta) in the 1960s. Others successes What stands out are: Palm Trees, Green Wind, Traveling Cloud, One for All, The Comet, Valley Breezes, El Embrujao, Valley Sun, Green Plain, My Delirium, Female, Morena y Gitana and Volaron las garzas.
*With information from the Mayor’s Office of Soledad
