{{Short description|Peruvian singer and charango player (1933–2018)}} {{family name hatnote|Guardia|Neyra|lang=Spanish}} '''Jaime Guillermo Guardia Neyra''' (10 February 1933 – 16 July 2018) was a Peruvian singer and charango player. Considered a master of the Ayacucho regional style of traditional Andean music, he performed and recorded as a solo act and with the group Lira Paucina. He was born in Pauza, Parinacochas Province, department of Ayacucho.
== Collaboration with Manuelcha Prado == When Manuelcha Prado reached Lima he searched pampas and mountains to listen to the wise advice of Jaime Guardia as a popular artist. Manuelcha Prado recalls: "He has always been a guide for all traditional music artist and has showed warmth to everyone". A modest Jaime Guardia said that he had not done anything, that only showed how little he knew: "I have never refused to give what little I know.
==External links== * [http://www.jaimeguardia.com/ Jaime Guardia - El Charango del Perú] * {{YouTube|3JidEZHChWs|Jaime Guardia - Carnaval de Tambobamba}} * {{YouTube|5sJeDfzu6mA|Charango maestro: Jaime Guardia, 60 años}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20171017145512/http://manuelcha.com/ Manuelcha Prado - The Saqra of the Guitar]
{{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Guardia, Jaime}} Category:1933 births Category:2018 deaths Category:Andean music Category:20th-century Peruvian male singers Category:20th-century Peruvian singers Category:People from the Department of Ayacucho
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