{{Short description|Colombian musician}} {{use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{family name hatnote|Bovea|Fandiño|lang=Spanish}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Julio Bovea | birth_name = Julio César Bovea Fandiño | alias = | image = | caption = | landscape = | background = person | birth_date = 6 or {{birth date|1934|09|08|df=y}} | birth_place = Santa Marta, Colombia | death_date = {{death date and age|2009|09|11|1934|09|06|df=y}} | death_place = Bogotá, Colombia | genre = vallenato, paseo{{r|ml}} | years_active = 1940s–2009 | label = }}
'''Julio César Bovea Fandiño''' (1934–2009) was a Colombian musician and songwriter. As leader of the trio '''Bovea y sus Vallenatos''', Bovea helped to develop and popularise the Colombian folk music genre of vallenato, particularly the compositions of Rafael Escalona.
==Biography== ===Early life and education=== Julio Bovea was born in Santa Marta, Colombia, on either 6 or 8 September 1934.{{r|dm|radionacional-2019}} His father was Julio Bovea, a composer, {{lang|es|tiplista}}, guitarist, and stringed instrument maker; his mother was Josefina Fandiño.{{r|mc}} Bovea left high school after only one year, due to the death of his father.{{r|mc}} Before beginning his career in music, Bovea worked as a barber.{{r|tiempo-2009}}
===Music career=== Bovea first played guitar in the ensembles of Guillermo Buitrago and Abel Antonio Villa, among others.{{r|dm}} In August 1947 at the age of 12 he formed his own band, a trio initially called the Trío Magdalena and later renamed to Bovea y sus Vallenatos, in which he played lead guitar and sang, along with Alberto Fernández Mindiola on guacharaca and lead vocals, and Ángel Fontanilla on rhythm guitar and backing vocals.{{r|mc|dm}} Bovea y sus Vallenatos played a role in the development and popularisation of the Colombian musical genre of vallenato.{{r|dm}} Ignacio Castro Contreras described the typical style of the trio as follows:{{r|dm}} {{blockquote |{{lang|es|Un punteo en guitarra al inicio de la canción, con bastantes trinos y trémolos haciendo la frase melódica principal y cuya ejecución corre a cargo del propio Julio Bovea, luego la voz de Alberto Fernández, con las estrofas de la canción, el estribillo a tres voces, repetición de la frase melódica con la guitarra y estribillo final.}} A guitar plucking at the beginning of the song, with many trills and tremolos making the main melodic phrase, executed by Julio Bovea himself, followed by the voice of Alberto Fernández, with the verses of the song, the chorus in three voices, repetition of the melodic phrase on the guitar, and the final chorus. |multiline=yes }} Bovea y sus Vallenatos are particularly known for their recordings of the compositions of Rafael Escalona, including "La Casa en el Aire".{{r|dm}} Their 1962 album ''Cantos Vallenatos de Escalona'' was the first collection of Escalona's compositions, and was successful in Bogotá, where vallento was at the time poorly received.{{r|surcos}} Bovea also recorded and popularised several songs written by Rafael Campo Miranda.{{r|tiempo-2009}} Bovea's own compositions include "La Mujer Celosa", "El Montañero", and "El Tigre Guapo".{{r|radionacional-2019}}
In the 1950s Bovea y sus Vallenatos toured Argentina and were so well received that they decided to stay.{{r|tiempo-2009}} Fernández and Fontanilla returned to Colombia in 1969, and Bovea formed a new group that released several albums with RCA Victor.{{r|mc}} Later Bovea also returned to Colombia, where he continued to perform until his death on 11 September 2009.{{r|tiempo-2009|colombiano-2009}}
==Albums with Bovea y sus Vallenatos== *''Merengues Colombianos'' (1957, Discos Fuentes){{r|surcos}} *''Los Cantos Vallenatos de Escalona'' (1962, Tropical)
==References== <references>
<ref name=tiempo-2009>{{citation |url=https://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/CMS-6083987 |title=A los 75 años, fallece Julio César Bovea tradicional intérprete de vallenato |trans-title=Traditional vallenato performer Julio César Bovea has died at 75 |language=es |work=El Tiempo |date=2009-09-12 |access-date=2025-04-02}}</ref>
<ref name=radionacional-2019>{{citation |url=https://www.radionacional.co/cultura/diez-anos-sin-julio-bovea |title=Diez años sin Julio Bovea |trans-title=Ten years without Julio Bovea |language=es |website=Radio Nacional de Colombia |date=2019-09-09 |access-date=2025-04-02}}</ref>
<ref name=colombiano-2009>{{citation |url=https://www.elcolombiano.com/historico/murio_el_maestro_julio_bovea-HIEC_59439 |title=Murió el maestro Julio Bovea |trans-title=Maestro Julio Bovea has died |language=es |work=El Colombiano |date=2009-09-12 |access-date=2025-04-02}}</ref>
<ref name=dm>{{cite book |title=Diccionario de la Música Española e Hispanoamericana |publisher=Sociedad General de Autores y Editores |volume=2: Baa – Cancio |year=1999 |isbn=84-8048-305-9 |editor=Emilio Casares Rodicio |language=es |chapter=Bovea Fandiño, Julio César |author=Ignacio Castro Contreras |pages=666–7}}</ref>
<ref name=mc>{{cite book |title=Cultores de la Música Colombiana |publisher=Editorial Ariana |year=1980 |oclc=253182806 |language=es |chapter=Bovea Fandiño Julio César |author=José I. Pinilla Aguilar |pages=87–9}}</ref>
<ref name=ml>{{cite book |title=Música Latinoamericana |publisher=Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag |location=Berlin |year=2001 |isbn=3-89602-282-2 |author=Egon Ludwig |language=de |chapter=Bovea Fandiño, Julio César |page=98}}</ref>
<ref name=surcos>{{cite book |title=En Surcos de Colores: La Historia de la Música Colombiana en 150 Discos |trans-title=In Colourful Grooves: The History of Colombian Music in 150 Records |language=es |edition=1st |publisher=Rey Naranjo Editores |date=November 2024 |isbn=978-628-7589-47-6 |chapter=Bovea y sus Vallenatos – Los cantos vallenatos de Escalona |author=Jaime Andrés Monsalve Buriticá |pages=62–3}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{discogs artist|artist=9857587-Julio-Bovea|name=Julio Bovea}} *{{discogs artist|artist=2312994-Bovea-Y-Sus-Vallenatos|name=Bovea y sus Vallenatos}}
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