Eduardo Larbanois is a guitarist

Guitarist

A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...

, songwriter

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 and singer Uruguay

Uruguay

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an of popular music

Popular music

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, best known for integrating the duo Larbanois - Carrero

Larbanois - Carrero

Larbanois – Carrero is a duo of Uruguayan folk music integrated by Eduardo Larbanois and Mario Carrero.Created at the end of 1977 and with a history that stretches to the present, is concerning artistic several generations of Uruguayan musicians .- History :...

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The Eduardos

In the early 1970s, Larbanois along with Eduardo Lago, a native of Tacuarembó

Tacuarembó

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, created the duo The Eduardos. At that time, the group started playing in various localities of the department and other cities in the interior of Uruguay. Since its discipline integrated a cultural movement that was called "Tacuarembó Group which also belonged", Washington Benavides

Washington Benavides

Washington Benavides is a Uruguayan poet and musician.-Writing career:During the 1950s he collaborated on the review Asir. In 1955 he published his first book, Tata Vizcacha, a satire of various personalities in his native city...

, Eduardo Darnauchans, Héctor Numa Moraes and Carlos Benavides among others.

Until the dissolution of the duo in 1977, the artists recorded 3 LP and achieved some regional recognition, touring Uruguay and part of Argentina

Argentina

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Larbanois - Carrero

After the separation of Edward Larbanois meets Mario Carrero

Mario Carrero

Mario Carrero is a Uruguayan musician, best known for his work with Eduardo Larbanois in the duo Larbanois - Carrero.-Biography:From an early age he moved to Montevideo and developed his artistic career as a solo act...

, who had years before, and the duo decided to create Larbanois - Carrero

Larbanois - Carrero

Larbanois – Carrero is a duo of Uruguayan folk music integrated by Eduardo Larbanois and Mario Carrero.Created at the end of 1977 and with a history that stretches to the present, is concerning artistic several generations of Uruguayan musicians .- History :...

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This duo became an important reference of Uruguayan popular music, with a history of over 30 years of performances and editing more than 30 long play s. It has also given concerts in places like Australia

Australia

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, New Zealand

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, United States

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, Canada

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, Cuba

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, Paraguay

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, Brazil

Brazil

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 , Argentina

Argentina

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, among others, and has shared the stage with a wide range of Uruguayan and foreign artists, among which are: Santiago Feliú, León Gieco

León Gieco

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 Paco Ibáñez

Paco Ibáñez

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, César Isella

César Isella

Cesar Isella , argentinian singer and songwriter of folk music. He joined Los Fronterizos from 1956 to 1966, was one of the main figures of the "Movement of the New Songbook", and in the 1990s he discovered and sponsored the singer Soledad Pastorutti...

, Joan Manuel Serrat

Joan Manuel Serrat

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, Daniel Viglietti

Daniel Viglietti

Daniel Alberto Viglietti Indart is an Uruguayan folk singer, guitarist, composer, and political activist. He is one of the main exponents of Uruguayan popular song and also of the Nueva Canción or "New Song" of the 1960s and early 1970s.He founded, in 1971, along with other musicians like José...

, Alfredo Zitarrosa

Alfredo Zitarrosa

Alfredo Zitarrosa Alfredo Zitarrosa Alfredo Zitarrosa (b. March 10, 1936, d. on January 17, 1989 in Montevideo, Uruguay; a Uruguayan singer, composer, poet, writer and journalist...

, Carlos

Carlos Mejía Godoy

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 and Enrique Mejía Godoy brothers and Pablo Milanés

Pablo Milanés

Pablo Milanés Arias is a Cuban singer-songwriter and guitar player. He studied at a conservatory in Havana. He is considered one of the founders of the Cuban nueva trova, along with Silvio Rodríguez and Noel Nicola...

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Larbanois - Carrero

• See: Larbanois - Carrero Discography

Soloist

• Trovas por Leandro Gómez (collective album with Carlos Maria Fossati, Carlos Benavides and Julio Mora. 1978)
• Cuerdas desatadas (Strings unleashed) (2003)

External links

• Larbanois Official Website - Carrero