Hilda Murillo

Date of Birth: December 15, 1951

Biography

He was born in Guayaquil on December 15, 1951. He belongs to a family of artists; his mother, Fresia Saavedra Gómez, is a renowned artist and singer of Ecuadorian music; like his father Washington Murillo, he was a musician; who imitated it in the interest for musical interpretation.

While still a child, she already made her first recording of children’s melodies, such as: “El Ratoncito Miguel”; and the “March of the letters”.

When Doña Fresia Saavedra was already a star of Ecuadorian music, she took her daughter Hilda as a companion to the recording studios, where the girl became familiar with the artistic and musical environment and became interested in recording another song, entitled “La song of Sundays “which was recorded by the ONIX label, whose wish was a great success and constitutes the beginning of a luminous career, where the Little Princess of the Song, as she was baptized by the popular radio man Mr. Rafael Fout in the United States, a country from which Hilda Murillo has traveled frequently to fulfill artistic commitments and make recordings with various record companies that were interested in her musical production.

She was married to the late artistic promoter Pío Cupelo, who together with his wife Hilda Murillo and Mrs. Fresia Saavedra, organized artistic programs and presentations of national artists on national and international stages.

Hilda Murillo, on her own and also with her mother Fresia Saavedra, have made record productions and have recorded numerous songs that have become popular among the Ecuadorian public, in addition to Spain, Italy and the United States with the Ecuadorian community of residents in those countries.