Pacheco Y Melón - Don Toribio

Luis Angel Silva Nava, in the musical world known as Melon , thank you so nicknamed the Fufu , playing the conga and whom I disliked him
Sitting at a table in a restaurant of the Historical Center -of which customer is everyday-and accompanied by Roberto Millan Cruz, his contemporary and admirer, melon bag opens its vast memories and memories emerge that bring the same seriousness and laughter to some ocular sweat.

While addressing a steaming broth of vegetables, recalls its beginning in 1949, with the peasants of the Caribbean , a stay of 12 years in the United States, where he alternated with big of a movement that many refuse to give that name, but the vox populi has called salsa, although it is nothing but a variation of the son.

Also recalls his glory years with the late Carlos Daniel Navarro, with whom he formed a combination that was actually sextet, as four other musicians integrated group that unforgettable Lobo and melon over 13 years, and who popularized classical themes considered, as Amalia Batista , Johnny Trucupey and fog stream , to mention just three of a large file.

Naranjo in the street of Santa Maria la Ribera, nearly 80 years ago came into the world this man born to sing, as recited in tenth; he studied in the schools of course, played football with teams of the caliber of the colony, as Oviedo, in which another value of the song, José Alfredo Jimenez, also raised dust in the Ranger sport.

While piling fork into a potato, melon says the son of a barber who a fluke changed her life to hit a top prize of the lottery. The still Luis Angel aspiring bookkeeper, worked in a nail factory before we become deeply sonero singing, when the capital's nightlife seethed for all social sectors, from pomadoso Ciro's on today Reform abandoned hotel until cabarets neighborhood, where already sounded strong Afro-Caribbean rhythms.

In one of those places, Macao , on the corner of Bolivar and Inns, Melon began his musical adventures. Hence came stays with other groups as Devils tropical , whole Cuban Juan Bruno Tarraza; Chucho Rodriguez orchestras and Ray Montoya. He also did some backing vocals on RCA Victor recordings until Carlos Castillo, an employee of the recorder house, passed through the streets of Humboldt and heard a harmonious, catchy sound that flowed from the building marked with number 8, den where Wolf and Melon and dancer attracted the parish.
Source - http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2009/07/31/espectaculos/a40n1esp