Arafo: Don Telesforo León Pérez Fariña

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Our biographer began his working life working, successively, as a farmer, a bricklayer's laborer, and a master bricklayer. At the same time, in his adolescence he entered the academy of the “Nivaria” Philharmonic Society, where he began to play the euphonium. He then provided his military service in the Military Health Company of the Canary Islands,

where the Civil War surprised him and he achieved the job of corporal. Later he joined the Armed Police, being assigned to Barcelona; There he would serve for many years as a flugelhorn player Email Marketing List in the Music Band of said body, when it was created in said city. Simultaneously, in his spare time he worked as a bricklayer and, after his retirement, he did so in a glass and crystal factory in the Catalan capital, where he lived until his death. He was born in Arafo on August 18, 1915, at two in the morning, the son of .



Mr. Telesforo Pérez Marrero and Mrs. Leoncia Fariña Coello, residents of Nueva Street. On October 2 he was baptized in the church of San Juan Degollado by the parish priest Don Hildebrando Reboso Ayala; He was named “ Telesforo León ” and Mr. Federico Marrero Alberto acted as godfather. He was known by his middle name…