Lucho Bermudez
Luis Eduardo Bermúdez Acosta (January 25 1912 – April 23 1994) better known as Lucho Bermúdez, was a Colombian musician, composer, arranger, director and performer. He is widely regarded as one of the most important fiugres in the 20th-century Colombian popular music. He adapted traditional Colombian musical genres such as cumbia and porro into orchestral arrangements that contributed to their emergence as symbols of Colombian national identity from the 1930s onwards.. Bermúdez's approach has often been described through the expressing "dressing porro in a tailcoat" ("Vestir el porro de frac"), referring to his adaptation of a musical genre traditionally associated with working-class and rural communities into the sophisticated arrangements of big-band orchestras. By incorporating orchestral instrumentation and arrangementes associated with ballroom music, he helped bring porro to middle- and uper-class audiences and facilitated its wider circulation throughout Colombia. His work also gained recognition across Latin America. His compositions and arrangements drew heavily on the porros and fandangos of the savanna region of Bolívar and the Caribbean coastal towns of northern Colombia.
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