WJosé Vinicio Adames Piñero was a Venezuelan musician, and director of choral groups. He performed as a member of popular group Adames Trio with his sisters Yolanda and Shirley. He led a number of choral groups, including the UCV University Choir, the Chamber Orchestra of the Central University of Venezuela, the Chamber Orchestra of the University of Carabobo, the Panama Symphony Orchestra, the Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra of Caracas, the Shell Choir, the Choral of the Social Security, the Metropolitan Choral Group and the Central Bank of Venezuela Choral. He also wrote original choral pieces and arranged folk music. After his 1976 death in an airplane accident in the Azores Islands, he was honored in Caracas with a park in his name.
WFrancisco de Paula Aguirre was a Venezuelan composer. He wrote many popular waltzes; his most important works include "Claveles de Galipán", "Que bellas son las flores", "Dama Antañona" and the joropo "Amalia". He died in 1939.
WFulgencio Aquino, was a Venezuelan musician and popular composer, the author of the song El gato enmochilao.
WReinaldo Armas Enguaima, better known as Reynaldo Armas, is a Venezuelan llanero singer and composer.
WHuáscar Barradas is a Venezuelan flautist and Professor of flute at the "Instituto Universitario de Estudios Musicales" in Caracas. As a flutist he has represented Venezuela at a range of international festivals and as both soloist and symphonic musician plays a wide range of music types. Barradas was the principal flute of Orquesta Filarmónica Nacional. As teacher previously has worked at the National Youth Orchestra of Venezuela and taught his course "The art of performing the flute" at different Conservatories in and out of Venezuela.
WJosefina Benedetti is a Venezuelan-American composer, musicologist and choral director.
WHugo Blanco was a popular Venezuelan musician. He is best known as the author of "Moliendo Café" and other songs like "El Burrito Sabanero", "Leche Condensada", "Luces de Caracas", "Sierra Nevada" and "Mañanita Zuliana". "Moliendo Café", written in 1958 when Hugo Blanco was only 18 years old, has become one of the most recognized Venezuelan songs in the world.
WAugusto Bracca was a Venezuelan folk composer.
WEvencio Castellanos Yumar, was a Venezuelan pianist and classical musician.
WVidal Colmenares was born on February 14, 1952 in Caño de Indio, a neighborhood in Barinas, Venezuela, deep inside the Llanos.
WSimón Narciso Díaz Márquez was a Venezuelan singer and Grammy Award-winning composer of Venezuelan music.
WMaría Luisa González Gragirena de Escobar was a Venezuelan musicologist, pianist, composer, and caricaturist, who founded the Caracas Athenaeum in 1931. She also served as President of the Venezuelan Red Cross.
WAntonio José Estévez Aponte, was a Venezuelan musician, composer and conductor.
WPedro Eustache is a Venezuelan born multidirectional soloist flautist, reed player, world woodwind player, wind synthesist, researcher, composer, lecturer, and instrument maker with extensive academic studies and more than 40 years of professional experience. He has more than seven years of symphonic experience and a collection of around 600 instruments from all over the world, many of which having been designed, built and/or modified by himself.
WHeraclio Fernández Noya (1851–1886), was a Venezuelan musician, best known for the composition El Diablo Suelto.
WIgnacio Ventura Figueredo, was a Venezuelan folk musician and harpist.
WLino Gallardo (1773–1837) was a Venezuelan composer, conductor, and string player, and was among the musicians who participated in and contributed to the Wars of Independence.
WHernan José Gamboa Alexis, better known as Hernan José Gamboa Alexis was a Venezuelan musician, composer and singer. He was a member of the Venezuelan fold music group Serenata Guayanesa, and later released separate albums.
WPedro Elías Gutiérrez was a Venezuelan musician who is mainly remembered for the song Alma Llanera, whose music he composed for the zarzuela of the same name.
WRházes Hernández López was a Venezuelan composer and flutist born in Caracas June 30, 1918. He died in Caracas in 1991.
WEnrique Hidalgo is one of the most influential popular musicians, children's poets and authors from Venezuela. Hidalgo's work includes more than 500 songs, notably "Barcelonesa”, “Presagio”, "Ladron de tu amor", '“La Carta” among others, more than eight children's educational books, and many musical productions written and arranged by himself. Enrique Hidalgo is an accomplished musician and multi-instrumentalist. His compositions have been interpreted by artists such as Gualberto Ibarreto, Quinto Criollo,, ,, , (Urbanda),, ,(Arabella),, , among others. Enrique Hidalgo is currently working in different cultural and musical projects in Miami, Florida.
WCarlos Eduardo Lopez Avila is a Venezuelan singer and songwriter, better known as Jeremias. His songs include a wide spectrum of genres, including pop, ballads and tropical music; all infused with romantic lyric that reflect human emotions, Latino culture and love.
WLuis Alfredo Laguna (lah-goo'-nah) was a Venezuelan musician and songwriter.
WLuis Alfonzo Larrain , was a Venezuelan composer, music director and producer, sometimes known as the Magician of the dancing Music.
WLasso, is a Venezuelan singer / composer.
WÁngel Custodio Loyola, was a Venezuelan singer and composer, known as a pioneer in the joropo genre. He wrote many popular songs, including "El Gavilán", "Tierra Negra", "Carnaval", "Sentimiento Llanero", "Catira Marmolereña", "Faenas Llaneras", and "Puerto Miranda". He is considered to have been one of the greatest exponents of llanera music.
WGustavo Matamoros is a Venezuelan composer, interdisciplinary artist, community organizer and educator who has established his residence in Miami, Florida, US, since 1979.
WLaudelino Mejías, b., d., was a Venezuelan composer, best known for the waltz Conticinio.
WArmando Molero was a Venezuelan musician known as El Cantor de todos los tiempos. He was considered Maracaibo's greatest singer.
WMiguel Ignacio Mendoza Donatti, better known as Nacho, is a Venezuelan singer and political activist. Born in Lechería, Anzoátegui, Venezuela. Currently lives in Miami, Florida, United States. He is a member of the duo Chino & Nacho.
WDaniel Alejandro Morales Reyes, known by his stage name Danny Ocean, is a Venezuelan singer, songwriter and record producer born in Caracas, Venezuela. He began his professional music career in 2009 with the creation of his YouTube channel.
WJuan Bautista Plaza Alfonso was a classical composer. He began studies in medicine at the Central University of Venezuela but, with time, left in order to dedicate himself to music. His first teacher was Jesus Maria Suárez. He studied in Rome from 1920 and 1923 and obtained the title of professor of sagrada (sacred) composition. After his return to Venezuela he was named Master of Chapel at Caracas Cathedral and carried out this position until the year 1948. In the Caracas Superior Music School he taught music history and appreciation to composer Antonio Lauro and singer Morella Muñoz.
WAlí Rafael Primera Rosell was a Venezuelan musician, composer, poet, and political activist. He was born in Coro, Falcón State, Venezuela and died in Caracas. He was one of the best known representatives of Nueva canción in Venezuela – his songs "condemning exploitation and repression, and celebrating resistance, struck a chord among a wide public," and he is popularly known in Venezuela as El Cantor del Pueblo. In 2005, the government of Venezuela declared his music to be an example of the national heritage of Venezuela.
WPancho Prin was a Venezuelan musician, singer, and composer. His better known songs include El Gavilán pollero, Canto al Amanecer Tuyero, La Madrugada llanera, El Aguardiente, Atardecer Mirandino.
WVictor Guillermo Ramos Rangel was a Venezuelan classical musician.
WPedro Antonio Ríos Reyna was one of the most important Venezuelan classical musicians.
WDiogenes Rivas is a dedicated Venezuelan composer as well as a researcher of contemporary music. Additionally, he devotes time to teaching and the training of young composers. Rivas is the co-founder and Artistic Director of the Festival Atempo – Caracas and Artistic Director of the Paris Nuit d’Atempo.
WLuis Mariano Rivera (1906-2002) was a Venezuelan singer, composer, poet, and dramatist.
WAldemaro Romero was a Venezuelan pianist, composer, arranger and orchestral conductor. He was born in Valencia, Carabobo State.
WIván Pérez Rossi is a singer and musician born in Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela, August 3, 1943. He was a part of the musical group Serenata Guayanesa.
WJesús Chucho Sanoja, was a Venezuelan musician, pianist, composer, music director and arranger. Sanoja was survived by his grandson, Jesús Alfonso Sanoja Soulés, an audiovisual producer.
WJesús "Chuchito" Bernardo Sanoja Soteldo is a Venezuelan composer, arranger and producer.
WÁngel Sauce,, was a Venezuelan composer, violinist and conductor. He was founder of multiple choirs and orchestras, and for more than twelve years he directed the Venezuela Symphony Orchestra. He received two National Music Prizes in Venezuela, one in 1948 for his composition Cecilia Mujica and one in 1982 for general achievements in his lengthy career.
WEduardo Valentín Serrano Torres, was a Venezuelan popular musician, conductor and composer. He composed many important Venezuelan merengue; one of his most important works was the song Barlovento. He won the National Music Prize in 1988. He died on October 13, 2008, at the age of 97.
WVicente Emilio Sojo was a Venezuelan musicologist, educator and composer, born in Guatire, Miranda.
WRafael Suárez Mujica was a Venezuelan composer, conductor, and arranger.
WJuan Vicente Torrealba was a Venezuelan harpist and composer of popular music. In 1947 he founded the group Los Torrealberos with his brother Arturo and his son Santana, playing with passion and rich nuances the traditional music of the plains, which is distinguished by feeding on the experiences of the peasants, the cattle-raising tasks, the singing of the birds, the melody of the rivers and the trot of the horses.