High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tomas Rivera Morales simply known as "Maso" Rivera (November 13, 1927 - February 4, 2001) was a Puerto Rican musician and a major exponent of Puerto Rico's "Jibaro" (folkloric) music. Rivera composed over 1,000 instrumental compositions for the Cuatro, Puerto Rico's national instrument.Rivera was born in the barrio Galateo in the town of Toa Alta. His parents were Ramon Rivera Nieves and Secundina Morales Rolon. When he was five years old, under his mother's encouragement, he began to play the cuatro. The cuatro is an instrument of the guitar family. It is smaller than the guitar and originally had four strings. Rivera built his first cuatro when he was nine years old. Even though he did not know how to read music, he was a good listener and learned how to play whole musical compositions by ear. His family found themselves in a difficult financial situation and Rivera had to leave school in the sixth grade.

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