BYOGRAPHY FACUNDO CABRAL BY JUAN ESTEBAN CUELLAR GIL

Rodolfo Enrique Cabral was born on May 22, 1937, in La Plata, Buenos Aires, he had the first name of his father Rodolfo, but his mother called him "Facundo" by Facundo Quiroga, an Argentine leader.

Facundo grew up in Ushuaia the city argentine with sex siblings.

His mother before eating food from the trash, she knelt to thanks God.

Facundo at age 11 was in a reform school because he had stolen two bottles of gin and a bottle of whiskey. There he met a wonderful Jesuit priest who worked there, who led Cabral to sleep in the library because Facundo was very violent.

The Jesuit taught to read and write to Facundo, and then the Jesuit helped him out of the reformatory.

After that, Facundo met a beggar who told him: "You are a prince and son of the King" while the mendicant raised his hand to heaven, your father is God.

Facundo Cabral after hearing that, and believe it, wrote the lullaby "Flying Low"

He walked 3.000 km at the age of nine to look for work to support his mother and six siblings after his father abandoned them. When he left his mother, she told him "This is the second, and last gift I can give you. The first was to give you life, and the second one, the liberty to live it".

He traveled to Mar del Plata and got a job in a hotel where the owner saw him with his guitar and gave him the opportunity to sing.

He wrote music that inspired millions. He met Mother Teresa. He performed in over 165 countries in eight different languages. His earlier artistic name was El Indio Gasparino.

His wife and daughter one year-old were killed in a plane crash in 1978 near San Diego. He was nearly blind and crippled, and was a bone cancer survivor as well and was diagnosed in his twenties, his doctor told him he only had a couple of months to live but he survived much more time and was an inspiration to all.

Murder

Cabral was shot and killed during a tour in Guatemala City while route to La Aurora International Airport on July 9, 2011.

He had left a hotel in the west of Guatemala City, after giving a concert the previous evening in Quetzaltenango, and he was headed to the airport when gunmen attacked his vehicle, a white Range Rover Sport, hitting him with at least eight bullets. He died in the car. The incident occurred at around 05.20 (local time). Cabral initially planned to take a hotel transport to the airport, but accepted a ride from Nicaraguan concert promoter Henry Fariñas.

Cabral was with his agent David Llanos and Henry Fariñas, who were hurt. He was accompanied by a second vehicle carrying bodyguard, but they couldn't protect the singer's vehicle from the bullets. Cabral was riding in a SUV that tried to flee the attackers by driving into a fire station. At least 20 bullet holes were seen in the Range Rover car he was in. The gunmen were in three late-model vehicles, one in front of Cabral's car and two to the right and left. One of the attackers' vehicles was later found abandoned on the road to El Salvador. It was a brown Hyundai Santa Fe with bullet holes and containing bullet-proof vests and an AK-47 magazine. The Argentine consul in Guatemala, Enrique Vaca Narvaja, confirmed the report of the attack. Guatemalan authorities confirmed that the target of the attack was the concert promoter — possibly because of troubles with organized crime. Three suspects have been arrested.