Jairo Varela

Writer

Date of birth : 11/09/1949

Date of death : 08/08/2012

City of birth : Quibdó, Colombia

Jairo is the son of merchant Antonio Varela Pedro Restrepo and writer and poet Teresa de Jesús Martínez Arce. His first contact with music occurred when he was 8 years of age in a "barrio" called Roma de Quibdo where he formed the group "La Timba", essentially composed of musicians playing only the flute, bongos, maracas and güiro.