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F l o s s Eff i e
Lawrence Vernon
Casaverde, Flix (19472011), guitar player, composer, arranger, and musical director, was born in
Lima, Peru, on 23 April 1947, the son of Luis Alberto
Casaverde Ardiles, a professional musician, and Feli
cita Maria Vivanco Vivanco, wet nurse for Chabuca
Grandas younger brother and later housewife.
Flixs father split his time between studying radio
broadcasting and performing at private parties for
the elite of Lima in the 1950s, and was skillful with
the guitar, accordion, and piano and knowledgeable
on diverse music styles played for ballroom dances.
Luis transferred his artistry to Flix, who soon
became a versatile music interpreter for different
types of audiences. During his high school studies
and still an adolescent, Flix Casaverde formed a
band called El Sexto Poder (The Sixth Power), its
name inspired by the black power slogan coined
by black social movements in the United States in
the 1960s. The members of Casaverdes band were
six black friends, and they interpreted the music of
a particular generation of Puerto Ricans established
in Harlem, New York, by the mid-twentieth century,
such as the Palmieri brothers, the Lebron brothers,
Richie Ray, Boby Cruz, Gilberto Miguel Calderon,
and Jos Cheo Feliciano.
In 1969, during the military government led by
General Juan Velasco Alvarado, Casaverde joined
the air force. He worked as a mechanic on airplane
motors and later was commissioned to perform investigations that led him to discover a series of illegal
practices involving high-ranking officials. He was
asked to disregard these findings, but refused to obey,
so he was imprisoned at a military detention center.
In 1973 the penalty was revoked, and Casaverde abandoned his military life and returned to his civil, professional, and family lives. In 1975 he married Sabina
Ramos, with whom he had two children, Luis and
Yaninha. Casaverde lived in different countries, but
it was Mexico where he lived the longest outside
ofPeru.
Flix Casaverde collaborated as guitar player with
the renowned Peruvian composer and singer Cha
buca Granda between 1974 and 1977. Together, they
recorded the album Tarimba Negra (Madrid, 1978),
on which Casaverde performed for the first time one
of his most popular compositions, Cuatro Tiempos
Negros Jvenes (Four Young Black Rhythms). This
piece was composed in the form of a suite for one
Casimir, Lumane
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