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A large room full of music, with paintings and sculptures of famous classical musicians, received visitors in the house that Carlos Pinzón had in Zipacón, Cundinamarca.
The son of a doctor and poet, art came to him from a very young age, as well as solidarity for seeing his father helping the community and his mother Aura María Moncaleano supporting him.
But he did not follow the family tradition of studying medicine, but served as an announcer and presenter during his long life. And his program The TV Club, which was broadcast from Monday to Friday since TV was in black and white, marked an era on the small national screen. In it he dedicated himself to looking for help for the people.
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For the new generations, his name may not be remembered, but it will undoubtedly remain in the history of national television, and it becomes relevant when the news of his death is known on April 30, at age 92.
Carlos Pinzón Moncaleano was born in Choachí, Cundinamarca, on October 24, 1927 and was also the promoter of the Telethon in the country, an annual format of 27 uninterrupted hours of fundraising for people with disabilities. With the resources obtained in the first years, a clinic was built in the town of Chía.
At a time when aid for people with disabilities was not such a defined policy, Carlos Pinzón became interested in this issue, as his brother Leopoldo told La W station, following the request of some athletes with disabilities to help them collect funds to travel to London to some competitions of this category.
Pinzón and Mike Forero, deceased sports journalist, “organized a kind of radioton and got the money. From there he became interested in these people and in a talk with Fernando Gómez Agudelo, from RTI, about the telethon that was made in the United States and Chile, my brother traveled to the latter country to see the entire set-up to bring him to Colombia, ”said Leopoldo Pinzón.
And, most importantly, it put these people in the Colombian reality, gave them options and opportunities for improvement, and helped them tremendously.
Pinzón made 15 telethon, since 1980. “And, most importantly, he put these people in the Colombian reality, gave them options and opportunities for improvement, and helped them a lot,” he added.
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The Pinzón Moncaleano were nine brothers, three of them well known because they dedicated themselves to the media: in addition to Carlos and Leopoldo, Julio Eduardo.
Pinzón began on the radio in Tunja in the 1950s, where his voice began to be educated until it became unforgettable in the media of the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s. From there he went to a station in Tolima, and later to a station in Manizales, before arriving in Bogotá.
“When he returned from Argentina, where he spent two years, he did not know what to do and my brother Julio Eduardo, who knew of his great ability and talent, told him to rehearse on the radio, to see if he channeled everything he had,” he added.
In this way, Carlos Pinzón began his great journey in the media, where there are radio tracks such as his voice in the transmission of the arrival of man on the Moon in 1969, and jingles as famous as that of “Mister announcer, please tell me what time it is,” which is usually put up in La W.
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Edgard Hozzman, another renowned radio and music man, very close to Pinzón, said that the latter was one of the promoters of the jingle in Colombia, after traveling to Mexico and Cuba, countries where he was watching how the radio was done. back in the 60s and 70s, and bring several sung commercials, especially from the island, where there was a great development on this topic.
further He was a promoter of the so-called gogó and rock music in the country, promoting them on the 1020 station and later on on the 15th hour. The Speakers, Lyda Zamora and Óscar Golden, Among other artists, they were his protégés and helped them promote their careers.
The days of The TV Club are also important. During more than 1,800 broadcasts, Pinzón promoted aid for those most in need and their problems (to be seen by a doctor, to get glasses or crutches, to be supported by a lawyer in difficult cases, among many others). Those were the days of a simple television, without much pretense, with a basic scenery that included a small desk from which Pinzón presented.
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His brother Leopoldo also said that he dedicated himself to putting on rumba and bullfighting shows, without much financial success. With Fernando Gómez Agudelo and the late presenter Gloria Valencia de Castaño set up the La Bomba nightclub, It had a capacity for 2,000 people and was attended by young people from the late 1960s who were opening their minds to other musical trends that came from abroad, albeit with a delay, since they were not the days of YouTube.
Artists such as César Costa and Angélica María, among others, performed there.
In recent times, added his brother Leopoldo, his health had been greatly affected, by age and by his heart ailments, and his closest ones awaited his death.
Finch had three children: Norma, María Claudia and Carlos. The first two, residents of the United States, who will not be able to travel due to the pandemic, as well as Leopoldo, who lives in Honda.
But although due to the emergency and due to social distancing controls his funerals are very simple and with few assistants, his name will always be linked to audiovisual and national arts (he even made movies and was a prompter in plays in his youth) and to the solidarity, a word that Carlos Pinzón always carried in his heart.
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