He was Basque and born in Spain, although when and where exactly is nowhere to be found, and also his career start has not been
documented so far.
In any case, he was another of those tenors who tried a career in the wake of Luis Mariano, and
failed. At one point, he even shared a role with Mariano at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris; and he took over Mariano's
operettas for instance in Charleroi – efforts on which Claude-Pascal
Perna commented (I'm translating from French): "When he replaced Mariano and Hirigoyen at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, it was a disaster.
Vocally inferior, no musicality, and leaving a lot to be desired as far as musical preparation. The voice in and of itself interesting, but
devoid of any technique..."
De Murguia settled in Brussels, where he taught voice from the 1970s.
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