Panambi is a municipality in the state Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Coordinates: 28°17′34″S 53°30′07″W / 28.2927777878°S 53.5019444544°W / -28.2927777878; -53.5019444544

Alberto Evaristo Ginastera (Spanish pronunciation: [alˈβerto eβaˈɾisto xinasˈteɾa]; April 11, 1916 – June 25, 1983) was an Argentine composer of classical music. He is considered one of the most important Latin American classical composers.

Ginastera was born in Buenos Aires to a Catalan father and an Italian mother. During the last few years of his life, he preferred to pronounce his surname in its Catalan pronunciation, with a soft 'G' as in 'George' (IPA: [(d)ʒinasˈteɾa]) rather than a Spanish 'J' sound (IPA: [xinasˈteɾa]).

He studied at the conservatory in Buenos Aires, graduating in 1938. As a young professor, he taught at the Liceo Militar General San Martín. After a visit to the United States in 1945–47, where he studied with Aaron Copland at Tanglewood, he returned to Buenos Aires and co-founded the League of Composers. He held a number of teaching posts. He moved back to the United States in 1968 and from 1970 lived in Europe. He died in Geneva at the age of 67.

Among his notable students were Ástor Piazzolla (who studied with him in 1941), Alcides Lanza, Waldo de los Ríos, Jacqueline Nova and Rafael Aponte-Ledée.

Horacio "Chango" Spasiuk (born on September 23, 1968 in Apóstoles, Misiones) is an Argentine chamamé musician and accordion player.

Of Ukrainian grandparents, El Chango had a strong Polka music influence from his early days; Eastern European musical influences were also already present in the chamamé music of the region. He had his first accordion at age 12, which he played at parties, weddings and other events with his father and uncle.

A musical-talent TV show that travelled around small towns opened the door for Spasiuk to perform at provincial festivals. When he finished high school, he went to Posadas, capital of Misiones, to study anthropology, but soon after dropped out. Nevertheless, there he was exposed to other musical genres, and met pianist Norberto Ramos, who convinced him to go to Buenos Aires to study with him. Spasiuk then played in small places in Buenos Aires as well as in some festivals around the country, and even received an invitation to participate of the Eurolatina festival in the Netherlands.

Manuel Ortiz Guerrero (16 July 1897 - 5 August 1933) was a Paraguayan poet and musician

Guerrero was born at Ybaroty, a neighborhood in the city of Villarrica del Espíritu Santo, Paraguay. He was the son of Vicente Ortiz and Susana Guerrero, who died after giving birth. He was raised by his grandmother, Florencia Ortiz. He realized his first studies in a school in Villarrica, characterized by his interest in scholar work.

He was shy and not very social. In Colegio Nacional de Villarrica he evolved as a poet, and developed his first verses. His classmates then started calling him Manú, nickname by which he would be immortalized.

He arrived in Asunción in 1914, where he studied in the Colegio Nacional de la Capital and gained a status of poet and leader of a whole generation.

He published his first poems in the Revista del Centro Estudiantil student centre magazine. Soon, local newspapers showed interest in him and allowed him popularity and audience. One of his best pieces, “Loca”, was published in the magazine Letras. He lived with his friend and also poet Guillermo Molinas Rolón.

Ramón Ayala (born December 8, 1945, in Monterrey, Nuevo León, México) is a Mexican musician, composer, and songwriter of norteño and conjunto music. Known as the "King of the Accordion," Ayala has recorded over 105 albums for which he has received four Grammy Awards. Additionally, Ayala has been featured in thirteen movies. A legend of norteño music, Ayala is one of the most recognized and best-selling artists of this genre of Mexican music, breaking many sales records along the way.

Ramón Ayala, the son of musician Ramón Cobarrubias, began playing his favorite instrument, the accordion at the very young age of six years. Inspired and supported by his parents, he performed in different public places to help his modest family. Ramón Ayala's first band experience was a group called Los Jilgueros de Marin; he later joined Los Pavoreales.

After moving to Reynosa, a border town in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, the talented musician met Cornelio Reyna at a cantina called "El Cadillac" and formed Los Relampagos Del Norte; the group soon made a self-titled debut album which featured the hit single "Ya No Llores." in 1963. For the next eight years, Los Relampagos Del Norte tore up the musical charts by revolutionizing/reinventing norteño music, a genre that was then considered exclusively cantina music. Ramon Ayala and Cornelio Reyna livened the music and lyrics in order to reach and appeal more people. The talented duo recorded a total of 20 albums and leaving behind many classics such "El Disgusto", "Devolucion", "Mi Tesoro", "Tengo Miedo" and many others.