Andrés Gil (musician)

Andrés "El Turco" Gil
Also known as
  • El Turco
  • El Rey del Disonante
Born
Andrés Eliécer Gil Torres

(1948-10-30) 30 October 1948
Villanueva, Colombia
GenresVallenato

Andrés Eliécer Gil Torres (born 1948), also known as El Turco Gil, is a Colombian musician, songwriter, and teacher. Gil is the founder and head of the vallenato school Academia de Música Vallenata in Valledupar, and created the children's vallenato band Los Niños del Vallenato. In 2015 Radio Nacional de Colombia wrote that "Gil's work has for the past 15 years focused on helping displaced children, children who have suffered Colombian violence in some form, to reintegrate into society."


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