Hugo César Blanco Manzo was born on 25 September 1940 in Caracas, Venezuela, and
became a singer, composer, arranger, producer and instrumentalist whose work
reached international audiences. From age twelve he listened to radio stations
to study Venezuelan music, learned to play the cuatro and later mastered the
harp under the influence of Juan Vicente Torrealba, José Romero Bello and Amado
Lovera. In 1958 he was invited by Francisco González to record at the Gonzalito
studio, a step that marked his entry into the professional music scene. His
early single "Moliendo Café" (1961) ...