Jairo Varela
Bandleader and co-founder Jairo Varela Martínez was born on December 9, 1949 in Quibdó, Colombia, the son of merchant Antonio Varela Pedro Restrepo and writer and poet Teresa de Jesús Martínez Arce; Varela remembered her as a woman of great strength that gave his life character.
His first contact with music occurred when he was eight years of age in a "barrio" called Roma de Quibdo where he formed the group "La Timba", essentially composed of musicians playing only the flute, bongos, maracas and güiro.
At the age of 62, Varela was found dead in his Cali home on August 8, 2012, apparently from heart failure.
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