16 Facts About Guillermo Anderson

Guillermo Anderson was one of the best known Honduran musicians.

Guillermo Anderson was born in La Ceiba, Atlantida, Honduras, February 26,1962, to Jorge Guillermo Anderson Sarmiento and Ida Aviles Sevilla.

Guillermo Anderson grew up exposed to the mixture of Garifuna, North American, British, and Caribbean cultures characteristic to the Northern coast of Honduras, which later provided the basis for his artistic style.

Guillermo Anderson attended the primary school at the Escuela Mazapan, in La Ceiba.

Guillermo Anderson attended secondary school at the Instituto San Isidro, in La Ceiba.

Guillermo Anderson was introduced to composition and performance in the theater at the university.

Guillermo Anderson graduated from Santa Cruz in 1986 and subsequently worked in theater with "El Teatro De La Esperanza" in San Francisco, California, and El Teatro Campesino with Luis Valdez.

Guillermo Anderson first received widespread recognition with his acoustic guitar and two Garifuna drummers.

Guillermo Anderson created La Ceiba COLECTIVARTES, an artist movement with other group of artists, and invited other artists from Europe and USA to perform different works on La Ceiba.

Guillermo Anderson often traveled to forest areas of Honduras, among them, La Mosquitia a kind of Central American Amazonia where he recovered their musical traditions.

Guillermo Anderson's music was and continues to be heard in Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, United States of America, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Argentina, Cuba and the Dominican Republic.

Guillermo Anderson was inspired by both materials to create a new compact disc with ambient sounds and songs, among them his first bolero.

Those who know this artistic composition of Guillermo Anderson think that it is a work of great intellectual depth, with much feeling and nostalgia, to such a degree that some of the songs that comprise it, such as Morazan's complaint that politics has distanced his love from Mary Josefa, his wife, caused tears in the auditorium, in 1992.

Guillermo Anderson made a complete production on this topic and from this work people and governments began to pay attention to the Rio Platano environment.

In November 2015 Guillermo Anderson was diagnosed with anaplastic thyroid cancer.

Guillermo Anderson died in company of his family on August 6,2016, at the Hospital D'Antoni in La Ceiba, Atlantida.