Aldemaro Romero

About Aldemaro Romero

Aldemaro Romero was one of Venezuela's most important composers and arrangers, a pianist and conductor who moved fluidly between popular and concert music. In the 1950s his Dinner in Caracas albums brought Venezuelan songs to a sophisticated international audience, and in the 1970s he invented onda nueva, a fusion of joropo, jazz, and bossa nova that gave the country its own answer to the Brazilian sound. His orchestral works like Fuga con Pajarillo turned the folk rhythms of the plains into symphonic art.