Effective period / Period of releases: 1969 - 1985

Members: Ricardo Suntaxi, Gustavo Velásquez, Medardo Luzuriaga, Mario Rojas (2), Mauricio Luzuriaga

Group from Ecuador: Created in 1967 and led by Don Medardo with his many "Players" and their contagious and infectious rhythms. In the decade of the 60s the young Medardo had graduated from the National Conservatory of Music in Quito, he was a composer and musician known even taught at several colleges and visited his native holidays Loja, where he was struck by the melodious sound of an orchestra.

Medardo Luzuriaga, Chief Don Medardo and his Players, says: "I was in the park when I hear a band that sounded good, I say is playing very well and I went to there is called The Players, I went and I was met with great fanfare, after two months we were in Quito and the orchestra. "