Real name: Manuel Urbina

Effective period / Period of releases: 1977

Best known as "El Gordo" Manuel Urbina (b. October, 16th, 1954, Caracas-DC - d. March, 30, 2024, Caracas -D.C), was a Venezuelan percussion player and comediant with a large carreer on record studios and venezuelan TV.
Urbina played with groups as Ciruela (1970-1973), Volcán (1973), Los Bonchones (1979), Los Lobin Ejnay (1981), Santa Paula (1984), Un Solo P.O. (1989), Los Serenateros, Ali Primera, Tony Monserrat, Gina Serfaty y Agni Mogollón, Rafael “Fucho” Aparicio, Maria Teresa Chacin, Guillermo Carrasco, between many others. Along side Graterolacho Manuel Graterol Santander, Lumute, Juan Manuel Laguardia and Moisés Daubaterre, was part of the band of the TV Show “La Hora del Camaleón”.