‘Embrujo’, ‘El santo cachón’ and eight other famous vallenatos composed by Romualdo Brito

Colonel Jesús Manuel de Los Reyes Valencia, commander of the Cesar Police Department, confirmed that, in the morning hours of this Friday, the Vallenato singer-songwriter Romualdo Brito died in a traffic accident. The musician He was traveling with his 18-year-old son and 28-year-old driver Alex Miguel Montero.

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El Santo Cachón – The Vallenatos Ambassadors

This song achieved international recognition in 1994 by the hand of ‘Los Embajadores Vallenatos’, produced by Discos Fuentes.

Charm – Romualdo Brito

In 1985 this single was released, which marked the musical career of the composer, who in this song is also the interpreter.

In an interview in 2018 by Brito to the ‘youtuber’ Natalí, the musician assured that there are more than 1,500 songs that have been recorded with his lyrics. These are eight other songs that marked a whole generation of artists:

Wife of Mine – Otto Serge

The Dead-Silvestre Dangond

Valley Sunrises-Romualdo Brito

Your husband arrived-Jorge Oñate and Álvaro López

That’s life – Performed by Diomedes Díaz

Ponte chévere – Performed by the Binomio de Oro

Your husband bequeathed – Interpreted by Jorge Oñate

The singing god – Lisandro Meza

Brito was born in 1953 in a village of La Guajira called Treinta Tomarrazón. According to the biography published in Last FM Music always accompanied him in his life, but it was not until his adolescence that he began to compose and it was his uncle, the artist Lisandro Meza, who interpreted what he wrote.

Little by little he began to build a successful career as a composer that made him an important man in Vallenato music. After leaving his town, he settled in Riohacha with his family and from there he began to forge his musical career.

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His songs became more and more known and he said that on some occasion some of his compositions were stolen. “I would get mad, kick and everything. But they arranged with my dad. As the age of majority was 21 years old, my dad signed the songs for me and represented me. But he fixed everything in the parties and it was useless for me to protest “said the composer.

On the death of Romualdo

According to the report provided by the authorities, the truck in which they were traveling overturned on the road that connects the townships of San Roque and Rincón Hondo, jurisdiction of the township of San Roque, located in the municipality of Curumaní, south of Cesar. According to the reports of the authorities, the renowned composer suffered multiple trauma to the body and died at the scene.

“The driver was injured with a fracture in the left upper limb and was referred to the Chiriguaná healthcare center, as for the composer’s son, Romualdo Brito de la Cruz, he had lower limb injuries and was referred to the Curumaní healthcare center”, detailed the Police Commander.

Regarding details of the accident, he added that, at the moment of losing control, the vehicle went off the road and collided with a metal railing and a tree, causing it to roll over.

Friends, family and artists mourned his passing, as he was one of the most prolific composers of vallenato.