"Life is nothing more than a story of encounters, reunions and farewells." The previous phrase was uttered in 2019 by the Canarista, because he was a lover and disseminator of all traditions of the islands, the director of the Municipal Music School of the San Bartolomé de Tirajana City Council, Noé Peña Rodríguez. Peña's death occurred in the middle of the road blockade due to the Maspalomas rally. He collapsed before relatives who tried to revive him.
He was a pioneer in the study of the songs of the sharecropping women in Maspalomas, Juan Grande and El Tablero in the packaging warehouses. He always remembered that the San Fernando festivities served as a farewell to the sharecroppers who returned to their homes in other parts of the islands and that he was the embryo of the Canarian talent to manage the service sector, defending the quality of the destination. He was a great student of dances, legends, stories, crafts and superstitions. Precisely, given his excellent state of health, in Tunte this weekend everyone who knew and admired him was wondering about the bad luck of this 46-year-old young man precisely when he was beginning a process of family and professional maturity.
In addition, a great teacher loved on the island of Gran Canaria, this "maspalomero", as he defined himself, was a great defender of traditional island music. The son-in-law of El Pichi, the historic defender of traditional Canarian games and master of the spinning top, was the son of Cristóbal Peña and Paula Rodríguez. Her father was an employee in the tourism sector and she was a highly sensitive educator of hundreds of boys and girls from the sharecroppers of the south of Gran Canaria. He was raised between the old town of San Fernando and El Patronato.
Peña always felt special interest in knowing the career of Juanita Delgado, Los Tenderetitos, El Instituto, Arenas Rubias, Los Parrandilleros, Los Maspalomas, Guanache, Faro de Maspalomas, La Cucaña, La Descamisá, Asentaos y Tumbaos, Azaygo and las Parrandas de Dorita and Manolito or the promotion of the APAS of schools such as Maspalomas I, Oasis and Maspalomas IV. He always remembered the role of the musical masters José Cazorla Quevedo, Juan Carlos Quintana and Nely Franchy, Bernardo Santana and Agustín Trujillo (Tinito) from San Fernando de Maspalomas, El Tablero and El Castillo del Romeral, to the Fataga guitarist José Cazorla Quevedo, who He was its first teacher since the times of the APAs and currently a teacher at the Mogán Music School; the timplist and guitarist David León Suárez, and also the professor of Vocal Technique at the Santa Lucía School of Music, Manolo Matos or the neighbors Carmelo Suárez Franco and Antonio Martín Gómez Godoy.
