Singer Juan “Corazón” Ramón, emblematic artist of the romantic song of the early 1960s, died this Thursday, July 30, at the age of 80, as a result of pneumonia associated with a severe picture of dehydration, complicated by chronic gastritis. His career was characterized by his successful performances of themes by Charles Aznavour and Doménico Modugno, at the beginning, and a romantic repertoire that also knew how to have its festive side.
His strength was interpretation and a clear intuition to dive into the world of song and find those themes that easily fit his fresh style, with a sweet and singing voice. In a report she confessed: “I discovered songs like that success Dance Dance that I recorded in Argentinean style and became a Gold and Platinum Record and I can assure you that it was pure intuition ”.
His first success was Aline, a song by the French singer Christophe in which he was accompanied by the orchestra of maestro Horacio Malvicino. Later songs like Whenever you want love, The earth, If you want let me, Oh my lord, Dominique, In my world, See how I sway, The brick dance and Taste of salt they were immediate successes.
Juan ‘Corazón’ Ramón built a career of more than 50 years, around the romantic song.
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When, in 1961, Juan Ramón teamed up with composer Ben Molar, a writer with a deep nose to create hits with simple but very well orchestrated songs, and of course together with Malvicino with his orchestra, the hits in his voice were trending.
Sixteen albums in the ’60s reveal not only a prolific career but also an abundance of rare hit songs. Somehow he was a pioneer in marketing.
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Works like Juan Ramón with youth (1962), Young … young (1963), Juan Ramón always with youth (1963) and Juan Ramón alone (1964) had a specific destination in times when rock began to have a strong predominance of sales in Argentina.
Juan Ramón knew how to catch a youth that felt comfortable with the romantic song, his performances in programs like Rhythm and Youth, from Channel 11, the famous Circular Saturdays, by Pipo Mancera, or Casino They were pillars to build a career that reached its peak when it added the term “Heart” to its stage name.
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A career of more than 50 years, with around 50 albums releasedThey are the reflection of an entrepreneurial spirit where he did not always lie on romantic repertoires. Towards the 80s she added to her vast repertoire – she recorded around 1200 songs, among which Cariñito and Tobacco and rum rang out a thousand times throughout its trajectory– to tropical music; and he even cheered up being outside with some tangos.
Ellery Guy Rech was born on January 13, 1940, in Cañada de Gómez, Santa Fe, although with just a little more than a year, the family moved to Campana, where he grew up and even made his first musical forays with a neighborhood orchestra, in Zárate. He entered the Law School, a career he abandoned shortly after to pursue his musical vocation, which only matured over time.
In the 1960s, Juan Ramón also had his moment in cinema.
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As he himself described it in an interview. “Sincerely, I never thought that I was going to be a singer and that I was also going to be lucky enough to record so many albums and having such huge audiences for so many years. Actually, I always thought what I was doing was natural; I had failures until I reached a success, but I took everything naturally, I felt that it came from the hand of God ”.
In the 70, Juan Ramón moved to Panama where he lived for a time and then moved to Colombia to Peru, where he lived until 1983, when he returned to Argentina where he regained his previous popularity and released ten albums in just five years. The singer remained very active until 2010, during which he toured the country to celebrate his 50 years with music.
