Background
Silva was born in Guayaquil on February 9, 1931 and his father Fermin Silva de Louisiana Torre, was a violinist and orchestra director, and the founder of the first Big Band of Ecuador.
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He is considered the first saxophonist of Ecuador. At the age of 12 he would accompany his father on gigs to wedding parties where he played violin. But Silva wasn"t motivated by the violin, and made his first instrument out of wood, something resembling a saxophone.
He also spent time painting images of saxophones.
Seeing his interest in the saxophone, his father enrolled him in the Santa Cecilia Academy of the Philanthropic Society of Guayas. At the age of 13 he was taught by a teacher named Bolívar Claverol, and at the age of 15 he joined the orchestra group Costa Rica Swing Boys.
Having rented saxophones up to this point, he purchased his first saxophone at this time and joined the orchestras of Blacio Junior. and the Sonora Rubén Lema. He would also do street serenades in Guayaquil for money.
In 1983 the television program of the orchestra director Freddy Ehlers used one of his songs as its opening theme song, a jazz melody he performed with a saxophone.
Silva is one of the most recorded instrumental artists of Ecuador. He plays the saxophone, clarinet and flute.
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