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El Carrao de Palmarito, (born Juan de los Santos Contreras; April 7, 1928 - December 10, 2002), was a Venezuelan llanero singer. He took his stage name from the limpkin (Spanish: Carrao, Latin: Aramus guarauna), a bird which has a piercing call.
He was born in Palmarito, Apure state to Juan de Mata Laguna and Carmen Cecilia Contreras. He passed his childhood working in a farm near his hometown, and started to sing from very young, performing at the celebrations and parties of Palmarito. In 1955 started to live in Barinas. His first performance as a singer was on the radio station Radio Barinas in the program Fiesta Criolla. He acquired the pseudonym El Carrao de Palmarito at the suggestion of Luis Eduardo Camejo, a presenter of the station.
At this city obtained contract as singer in the Llano Alto hotel, acting during nine months, after this he travels to Caracas, appearing at the stations Radio Rumbos and Radiodifusora Venezuela, the presenter Alfredo Acuña Zapata add the nickname Clarín de la Llanura to Contreras. One successfully at the media, make tours around Venezuela, for the projection of his career. Represented Venezuela in several international events, participating at the film Más Allá Del Orinoco (Beyond the Orinoco), next to the Mexican artist Javier Solís. Also at the Venezuelan production, Agua y Sangre, next to the actor Carlos Olivier. In 1965 along with José Romero Bello, records La Leyenda de Florentino y El Diablo (The legend of Florentino and the Devil) based on the poem of Alberto Arvelo Torrealba, with this interpretation Juan de los Santos Contreras consacrates like artist. For 1976 the governments of the states Apure and Portuguesa, made a tribute to him, revealing a bust of the artist at the town of Palmarito.
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