Jorge Maronna

Jorge Maronna (Bahía Blanca, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 1, 1948) is an Argentine composer, guitarist and comedian, member of the group "Les Luthiers".

Biography

Born in Bahía Blanca on August 1, 1948, he started playing the guitar at the age of 13. When he finished high school he moved to Buenos Aires to study medicine, a career that he abandoned shortly after to begin studying composition at the Argentine Catholic University, which he later completed with Francisco Kröpfl.

He studied guitar with María Luisa Anido, and later with Miguel Ángel Girollet and Víctor Villadangos. At the end of the 60s he joined the early music ensemble Ars Rediviva and was an accompanist for singers, including María Elena Walsh .

He composed vocal and instrumental works that were performed, among others, by Susanna Moncayo, the Coral Singing Group, Lucía Maranca, Miguel Ángel Girollet, Claude Delangle, Marie Kobayashi, the Coral Cantiga, Judith Mok, Adriana de los Santos and the Chamber Choir of the Province of Córdoba.

He also composed music for theatrical shows, such as Yerma, by Federico García Lorca, Androcles and the Lion and Man and Superman, both by George Bernard Shaw, the latter directed by Norma Aleandro.

He collaborated with Daniel Samper Pizano in the script for Leche, a humorous soap opera broadcast in Colombia in 1996, and composed the thirty songs in the series.

He is the father of five children.

Les Luthiers

Maronna was part of the group I Musicisti, which emerged in 1965 in the choir of the Faculty of Engineering of Buenos Aires from the creation of the Cantata Modatón (later Laxatón), by Gerardo Masana.

At the age of 19, in 1967, together with Gerardo Masana, Marcos Mundstock and Daniel Rabinovich, he separated from the group to found Les Luthiers.

With Masana he composed, among others, the music for Les Luthiers tell the opera (the group's first show), Angelito el kidnapado (comedy by Leal Rey) and the television program We are all bad people.

In 1971 he began his creative collaboration with Carlos López Puccio, with whom, over several decades, he would write numerous works for Les Luthiers. Currently, during the creation of the ensemble's shows he is also in charge of organizing and directing the rehearsals.

As an instrumentalist he specializes in the execution of stringed instruments, both conventional (guitar, double bass, bass, banjo, sitar) and informal (cellato, nomeolbidet, barríltono, legüero cello and electric chair).

In 2007, together with his colleagues from Les Luthiers, he was distinguished as an Illustrious Citizen of the City of Buenos Aires and decorated with the Order of Number of Isabel la Católica, awarded by Juan Carlos I, King of Spain.

In 2017, she won the Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities, along with the other members of Les Luthiers.

In November of that same year, he was awarded (also with his colleagues from Les Luthiers) with the Honoris Causa Doctorate awarded by the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).

Books

He has written five humor books, in collaboration with other authors, and published a book of photographs:

• Singing under the shower (with Daniel Samper Pizano)
• Sex post/Memories of a sperm (with Daniel Samper Pizano)
• The emotional fool (with Daniel Samper Pizano)
• Parapa (with Daniel Samper Pizano)
• Copyright (with Luis María Pescetti).
• Les Luthiers' private life. Pictures of the group in their moments of intimacy, taken over 50 years by Jorge Maronna (with texts by Daniel Samper Pizano).