Alfonso "Pompo" Aguado
Venezuelan percussionist. At the beginning of the sixties, a group of young maracuchos led by Alfonso Aguado began to meet and perform rehearsals to form a gaita group. In their majority, they were neighbors of the urbanization Sucre in the La Limpia sector of Maracaibo, who played the traditional gaita. They wanted to compete with the leaders of the genre at that time: Estrellas del Zulia, Rincon Morales, El Saladillo and Cardenales del Éxito. They were called: "Los Guacos Student Group of Zulia". The guaco is a nocturnal bird, a kind of white owl, which according to the Marabina tradition, announces death when singing. These young people resorted to a dark symbol to attract attention and compete with another set of the same neighborhood called "Los trece Pavosos" . Alfonso Aguado "El Pompo" as his brothers called him, the eldest son of a prominent insurance agent who loved the gaita, executed the furro and had leadership skills. Soon he surrounded himself with talented gaiteros, who guaranteed him a good sound quality in his incipient group
