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Gusi Andrés Acosta - Biography
Born in Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela, on 22 of April 1984, his family moved
from an early age to Bogotá where he resides since then. His love to the
vallenato music came to him very early, when his grandfather Carlos
Arturo Acosta, a native of Villanueva Guajira, transmitted the feeling of
vallenato, sounding the songs of the greatest minstrels.
Gusi, composer and musician by profession, took his first steps in music
since childhood and continued to show artistic inclination throughout his
teenage, participating in different bands of which was part in the Colegio
Andino de Bogota. Later he studied music at the Javeriana University and
advanced independently workshops of classical guitar, and he was
singing with important Maestros of the music.
In his career he had the opportunity to record independently and to belong
to different groups. He stated his professional career as vocalist and
percussionist with the band La Cosmica Charanga, a group of the
Javeriana University; continued as vocalist and percussionist with Zona de
Tambora (founded by Ernesto "El Teto" Ocampo, Guillermo Vives and
Gilbert Martinez); as singer with La Banda de El Sitio de Santiago Cruz;
and as guitarist and
chorister with Fanny
Lu.
Today, Gusi has an
alternate career as a
composer. He has
written songs for all
albums of Gusi &
Beto and also for
other artists like Luis
Enrique on his latest
album "Soy y seré"
(Al fin), and Fonseca
in his latest album
"Ilusión" (Baila esta
última), among
others.