Lorenzo Morales (96) - here with the Golden Colombia team in Valledupar! - was the greatest accordeon player in vallenato from the late 1920's. In the late 1960's he retired from the musical scene to live as a farmer in La Serranía de Perijá. Leandro Díaz was disappointed that no one in Valledupar seemed to miss him or even wondered what had happened to him. So he wrote the song La Muerte de Moralito (The death of Moralito) reproaching the lack of interest in the fate of Morales in Valledupar.Below Leandro's son, Ivo Díaz interpretes the song spontanically at a forum on the lives of the two Maestros Tuesday.
La última página quedó de su recuerdo
cuando cantaba muy alegre en la región
en El Errante sus palabras se murieron
como petalos de rosa destrozado por el sol
si fuera un mexicano quien dejaba de morir
corridos o rancheros todo el mundo cantaría
pero murió Morales, ninguno le oyó decir
murió poeticamente dentro de la serranía
(The last page left of his memory
when he was singing happily throughout the region
El Errante, his words died out
like rose leaves whithered by the sun
if it was a Mexican who had passed away
corridos o rancheros, the whole world would sing
but Moralito died, and noone talks about it
he died, metaphorically, up in the mountains)
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