Neneco Norton

Elio Ramon Gonzalez, musician, composer and Paraguayan orchestra director artistically named Neneco Norton. Born in 1923 in Asuncion, capital of the Republic of Paraguay, December 8, the day of the festival of the Virgin of Caacupé, important date for all Paraguayans.

His parents were Apolonio Benitez and Hermelinda Gonzalez.

At present, with his 84 years of life, remains active and engaged in the passion of his entire life: music.

Children and Youth

Neneco began musically en la band of the battalion Rojas Silva of Salesianito with the use of the trumpet. His lessons of the elementary theory and music theory were taken with Father Ernesto Perez, renowned the famous Pa'i Perez. Later, he learned theory and higher sight-reading with maestro Jose de Jesus Villalba, and then followed courses of harmony with Professor Otakar Platill.

Being in the battalion Rojas Silva, he formed a musical group composed by the scouts, being its members, as a singer, Luis Meza Osmer, who later would be the famous Luis Alberto del Paraná, Rubito Medina on guitar and as a clarinetist, Benjamin Cabañas.

First Steps

This musician gets the title of senior professor of theory and music theory at the conservatory Jorge Baez, and insert in the career of music, forms his own orchestra "Los Caballeros del Ritmo" remarkable grouping comprising Rudy Heyn, Chon Duarte, Paco Gomez, Victorio Ortiz and Nelson Mendoza. With the band he conducts tours throughout the entire territory of the Republic of Paraguay, as well as cities in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay.

Trajectory

Neneco Norton is the author of one of the most widespread Paraguayan songs, "Paloma Blanca." The lyrics read between the lines: “Amanóta de quebranto guyramí jaula pe guáicha, porque ndarekói consuelo mi linda paloma blanca”.

This song has been recorded by countless national and international performers, such as Julio Iglesias. This means that Neneco Norton, named artistically, has consolidated his status as a great creator. But this success joined numerous compositions, which in his long career in music, have been widely distributed and accepted.

Neneco Norton has a long career in the field of composition, authorship, conduction and orchestral arranger.

Works made

The Guarania "Aquel ayer," his renowned work, marking his first experience in the field of composition and was recorded by Luis Alberto Paraná, who catapulted it to success. In addition to writing songs, Neneco was devoted to compose musical works for the local theater, called Paraguayan Zarzuela.

This shared creative space with the playwright and journalist Paraguayan Alcibiades Gonzalez Delvalle to create works as Reseda, Naranjera, Ribereña, The Arribeños, La Morena, Del Trigal, El Delegado and Cañaveral. Neneco also worked with the playwright Paraguayan Mario Halley Mora in La Promesera of Caacupé and Mustafa. With Críspulo Melgarejo he shared the authorship of “Marido de Contrabando”,” El Gringo de la Loma” and “Escuela Pyhare”. Rogelio Silverado was the librettist, another creative companion of Neneco Norton. He created the misic for his play “La Candeladria de mi barrio” among many other plays.

For recording labels, live presentations on television, radio or in theaters, singers such as Luis Alberto del Parana, Augustine Barboza Pura Agüero Vera Ñeco Gonzalez, Oscar Barreto Aguayo and many others, sought the direction and arrangements of orchestral Neneco Norton throughout his career

The song "Yo vì un amanecer," with the lyric of journalist Humberto Rubin and with the voice of Niño Pereira, another of his works and represented Paraguay in the Third World Song Festival held in Rio de Janeiro.

Distinction

The Municipality of Asuncion gave Norton Neneco the distinction of beloved son of the city of Asuncion, the capital because it was one of the great inspirations of the work of the author. Neneco Norton currently serves as professor of the area of Paraguayan popular folk music at the National Conservatory of Music and as a teacher in the school of Villa Elisa, Maria Auxiliadora School. In Autores Paraguayos Asociados (APA), this apart from being member of its steering committee teaches writing and structure of the Paraguayan music.

His works

This musician has written more than eighty compositions, including "White Dove", composition which has reached global distribution and whose rights he ceded to others. It also highlights "Buscándote" as one of his that has come to have great success, like "Aquel ayer” and “Tus ojos”, among many others. Singers such as: Luis Alberto del Parana, Samuel Aguayo, Hannibal Lovera, Ramona Galarza, Julio Iglesias, among others; groups such as Indios, the Parana Trio, Los Gomez, Los tres Sudamericanos, as well as great masters of music as Herminio Gimenez, Florentín Gimenez, or instrumentalists as Luis Bordón and Bernardo Avalos, have recorded compositions from Neneco Norton

Buscándote (Looking for you)

Music: Neneco Norton

Lyrics: Neneco Norton

Searching your love that was lost yesterday

Drowning in tears

My dream is away in the gray haze

In his loneliness

Yearning to find you I live

Those moments

From love so happy not forget

Never perhaps

II

In your heart you carried as you left

Every dream

That was born in my soul

With the tenderness of your kiss

Everything went in you, my craving my faith

All my hope

All that remained was happy in my memory

Of the illusion

III

If I could one day

Meet you again

My muchachita

Of fresh look

Return the charm

In those moments

A dry me crying

That comes today for you

Paloma Blanca

Música: Neneco Norton

Letra: Neneco Norton

Amanóta de quebranto

Guyrami jaula pe guáicha

Porque ndarekói consuelo

Mi linda paloma blanca

II

Ajumirô ndorotopái

Aperdetéma la esperanza

Ambyasyvoi rohayhu hague

Ingrata paloma blanca

III

Mi amor tan decidido

Hoy agoniza sin esperanza

Ojukáta tu inconstancia

Mi linda paloma blanca

IV

Na hi`ai chéve asufrive

Tanto tiempo esta tristeza

Ahechaséma la nde promesa

Chendive paloma blanca

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