Abilio de Abreu

The family at the helm

Abilio was not alone at the head. On the circuit the operation is remembered as the work of “los hermanos Abreu” —also written D'Abreu—, without any source so far having pinned down their names. Under that leadership Hot Music lived through what the protagonists themselves describe as its greatest heyday: it went up against Infierno and La Máquina at the Club Militar in Ciudad Bolívar and the Club Náutico in Ciudad Guayana, with Manuel Vielma and Carlos Dickson among the best remembered discjockeys (now DJs) of those years.

The stage closed between the end of 1996 and the beginning of 1997, when the Abreu brothers sold Hot Music to Manuel Miranda “El Portugués,” who already had his own —Sono Power— and would take the crew into a national stage.

Today

Abilio de Abreu lives today in Florianópolis, in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, where he works in digital marketing under the name De Abreu Marketing. Far from the speaker stacks of Manoa, but with the same head as the man who put up the capital and the strategy behind one of the longest-running minitecas in Guayana.

What remains to be documented

The names of the brothers who ran the crew with him are not on record, nor are biographical details beyond his role in the miniteca. A testimony from the San Félix circuit also places Abilio and his family as owners of a motel called “El Sandra,” now gone: for the moment it rests on a single voice and is recorded as such. Nor has a photograph of him been located, or social media that belong to him — those circulating under his name belong to much younger namesakes, with no connection to the movement.

Social media

• · Facebook: Abilio de Abreu

Credits and sources

• · Entry for the Miniteca Hot Music in this Archive: the 1980 merger, Abilio de Abreu's arrival at the end of 1986 and the leap that earned it the nickname “La Fuerza.”
• · Testimony of César “Matute” Hernández Ruiz, one of Hot Music's pioneers: Abilio came in as the money partner and ended up buying out Yépez and Pinto.
• · Testimony of Enrique Rojas: he sold his share in Hot Music to Abilio de Abreu at the end of 1986, on leaving the miniteca world.
• · Testimonies from the Ciudad Guayana and San Félix circuit: the leadership of “los hermanos Abreu,” the crew's heyday, the clashes with Infierno and La Máquina, and the sale to Manuel Miranda between the end of 1996 and the beginning of 1997.
• · Portrait of Abilio de Abreu, identification of his personal account and his life today in Florianópolis (De Abreu Marketing): primary source of the CMTK Archive and his own public profile.
• · Photographs of the era preserved in the CMTK Archive; the lettered truck, courtesy of MF Publicidad.
• · Under documentary verification: the names of the Abreu brothers and the “El Sandra” motel, at present held up by a single testimony.