Gustavo Orellana

Gustavo Adolfo Orellana Magallanes (Guayaquil, 1941 – 2 April 2020), was an Ecuadorian teacher and singer, who dedicated almost fifty years of his life to teaching in the National College Vicente Rocafuerte and the last years of his life to music.

Biography

During the government of Jaime Roldós, Orellana was Secretary of Sports and Recreation.

He started doing music in 1996, at age 55; in the same year, he participated in the OTI Festival with the song Canción de amor al viento, which was among the chosen songs. After this, he focused entirely on singing. On October 18, 2015, the Conaviro Foundation held a football championship in honor of three teachers, including Orellana, who was the one who began the inauguration of the championship, as the division championship 40–46 years was in his honor. In August 2016, another tournament was held in his honor and that of Enrique Salcedo Arce, on the fields of the Carlos Pérez Perasso Sports City.

He obtained a diploma in Higher Education and worked as a teacher at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Guayaquil until September 2012.