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Fundamental Figures Of Chilean Music
Fundamental figure of Chilean music, or "Figura fundamental de la música chilena", is an award presented annually by the Sociedad Chilena de Autores e Intérpretes Musicales (SCD), recognizing Chilean artists who have had important influence and legacy in the country's musical history. The selection is made by the organization's board of directors. Past recipients of the honor are: * 1987 José Goles * 1988 Luis Aguirre Pinto * 1989 Francisco Flores del Campo * 1990 Vicente Bianchi * 1991 Donato Román y Ester Soré * 1992 Valentín Trujillo * 1993 Margot Loyola * 1994 Gabriela Pizarro * 1995 Antonio Prieto * 1996 Dúo Rey-Silva * 1997 Los Jaivas * 1998 Hernán "Nano" Núñez * 1999 Sonia y Myriam * 2000 Fernando Rosas * 2001 Luis Advis * 2002 Los Ángeles Negros * 2003 Isabel y Ángel Parra * 2004 Patricio Manns * 2005 Lucho Gatica * 2006 Buddy Richard * 2007 Silvia Infantas * 2008 Los Huasos Quincheros * 2009 Palmenia Pizarro * 2010 Tito Fernández * 2011 Cecilia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Goles
José Goles Radnic (March 10, 1917 - June 8, 1993) was a Chilean composer and songwriter active from 1939 to 1987. He was the son of immigrants from Yugoslavia and grew up in Antofagasta. His most famous songs include "El paso del pollo", "Simbad el marino", “Póngale que póngale”, “Así es el amor”, “Evocacion”, “Sureña linda”, “Paloma torcaza” and “La gallina francolina ". He also organized the Chilean composers union to recognize and enforce the rights of songwriters in their compositions. In 1987, he was the first person to be honored with the designation as fundamental figures of Chilean music. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Goles, José 1942 births 1993 deaths Chilean musicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabel Parra
Violeta Isabel Cereceda Parra (born 29 September 1939), better known as Isabel Parra, is a famous Chilean singer-songwriter and interpreter of Latin American musical folklore. Early years Parra was born in Chile in 1939 and began her career in music at the age of 13 when she made her first recording with her world-renowned mother, the folklorist Violeta Parra. She has since interpreted and recorded the songs of some of the most famous Latin American folk singers. Career After the 11 September 1973 Chilean coup d'état she lived in exile in Argentina and France for many years. She returned to Chile when democracy returned to her country. Parra has toured extensively during her career and was a distinctive figure in the Nueva Canción Chilena (New Chilean Song) movement. Isabel Parra is also the sister of the famous folk singer Ángel Parra and the niece of the famous poet Nicanor Parra. Discography *''Isabel Parra'' (1966) *''Isabel Parra, vol II'' (1968) *''Cantando por ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gastón Guzmán (singer-songwriter)
Gastón Guzmán Muñoz (c. 1937 - August 28, 2019) was a Chilean singer-songwriter. A native of Angol, Chile, he was a founder, with his brother Eduardo (1940-2012), of the Chilean musical group, Quelentaro. Quelentaro recorded approximately 20 albums, telling stories, usually in the first person perspective, about the lives of workers, peasants, students, women, and settlers. In 2015, he was honored with the designation as a fundamental figure of Chilean music. Discography Quelentaro albums * 1967 - ''Coplas al viento'' * 1968 - ''Huella campesina'' * 1969 - ''Leña gruesa'' * 1969 - ''Coplas libertarias a la historia de Chile, Vol.1'' * 1970 - ''Judas'' * 1972 - ''Cesante'' * 1972 - ''Coplas libertarias a la historia de Chile, * 1975 - ''Quiebracanto, tiempo de amor'' * 1976 - ''Tiempos de amor'' * 1977 - ''Qué de caminos'' * 1979 - ''Buscando siembra'' * 1982 - ''Lonconao'' * 1983 - ''Reverdeciendo'' * 1985 - ''Aquiebracanto'' * 1988 - "En Vivo" (grabado en 1985, en vivo, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Lecaros
Roberto Lecaros Venegas (11 August 1944 – 29 April 2022) was a Chilean jazz musician and composer of music for film, theater, and popular music. He played wind, string, and keyboard instruments, including the violin, double bass, trumpet, cornet, flute, piano and accordion. He was one of the patriarchs of the Lecaros family of musicians. Biography At the age of three, he began studying violin and at the age of five, he entered the National Conservatory of Music of the University of Chile. In 1958, he discovered jazz when he saw the Goodway Jazz Band play at a university dance. Its director, the clarinetist Juan Sillano, invited Lecaros to play the tuba, initiating him into jazz. Lecaros ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando García (composer)
Fernando García (born July 4, 1930 in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean composer. Active since 1956 he has done orchestral music, chamber music, etc. He studied with Juan Orrego-Salas and Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, among others. His style is strongly influenced by serialism and aleatoric procedures. He also played a role in the beginnings of electroacoustic music in Chile, after a trip he made to France in the early 1950s where he heard ''musique concrete''. He worked for the Instituto de Extensión Musical of the University of Chile, and in 1962 he premiered his most important piece, the cantata ''América Insurrecta'', which won an award at the Chilean Music Festival. After the Chilean coup-d'état, he was forced into exile, first in Perú (1973-1979), and then in Cuba (1979-1990). He returned to his country in 1989 and joined the Faculty of Arts of the University of Chile where he taught musicology until 2009. In 2002, he received the National Prize for Musical Arts. And in 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calatambo Albarracín
Calatambo Albarracín (September 21, 1924 – September 5, 2018), born Freddy Albarracín Iribarren, was a Chilean composer and folklorist identified with the music of northern Chile. He was born in 1924 in Santa Laura in Chile's Tarapacá Region, an area known for nitrate mining. He began composing at age 16 and moved to Santiago in the early 1950s.He worked to popularize the musical rhythms and instruments of northern Chile, including zampoñas, pusas, sikus, quenas, sikuris and lichiguayas. He also performed and recorded with his group, Los Calicheros de Sierra Pampa. His notable compositions include "Trote Tarapaqueño”, "Navidad del desierto", "El huachitorito", “El cachimbo de Tarapacá”, “Caliche”, “Camanchaca”, “Adiós Salitrera Victoria”, “Tamarugal”, “Cueca San Lorenzo” and “La Tirana chica”. In 2012, he was the recipient of the fundamental figures of Chilean music Fundamental figure of Chilean music, or "Figura fundamental de la música c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecilia Pantoja
Mireya Cecilia Ramona Pantoja Levi (21 October 1943 – 24 July 2023), better known simply as Cecilia or Cecilia la Incomparable, was a Chilean singer-songwriter, and a member of the '' nueva ola'' music movement. Pantoja was considered by some critics as the greatest teen star of the mid-1960s and the most prominent and influential act of the nueva ola movement. Biography Beginnings Mireya Cecilia Ramona Pantoja Levi was born in Tomé on 21 October 1943 at 10 pm. She was the daughter of Fernando Pantoja Rubilar and Luisa Levi. She was the youngest of the family made up of her brothers Marietta and Fernando. She attended highschool at Liceo de Tomé. She was called simply as ''Cecilia'', as she was always called by her family and friends. Cecilia began singing at the end of the 1950s in the band ''Los de Tomé'', a melodic quartet originally formed by three González brothers and whose name is attributed to the city of origin of its members. After the recording of a first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tito Fernández
Humberto Waldemar Asdrúbal Baeza Fernández (9 December 1942 – 11 February 2023), also known as Tito Fernández, El Temucano, was a Chilean singer-songwriter and folklorist. He recorded and released more than 40 albums from the 1970s to the present. Fernández was born in Temuco but moved to Santiago as a teenager. In his 20s, he began singing in pubs and bars in the north of Chile, Peru, and Bolivia. He was imprisoned during the battle between the Bolivian army and Che Guevara's guerrillas. Fernández returned to Chile in 1971. He moved to Santiago where he recorded his music and shared the stage several times with Victor Jara. He was also active with the Juventudes Comunistas de Chile. However, unlike other singers of the Nueva Canción Chilena, Fernández also had followers within the military and right-wing. After the military coup in 1973, he was assigned to deliver Victor Jara's wedding ring to his widow. Fernández was himself detained by the military after the coup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palmenia Pizarro
Palmenia del Carmen Pizarro González (born 19 July 1941), better known as Palmenia Pizarro, is a Chilean singer. Biography Palmenia Pizarro was born in San Felipe, Valparaíso Region, in the neighborhood of El Almendral. She discovered her taste for music in childhood. Her parents and her teacher motivated her to start a long career, full of difficulties, at age seven. When she was eleven, she moved to Santiago to try her luck as a singer. At sixteen, her talent was recognized by some radio stations, and she was awarded as "Best Folkloric Performer". Her participation in the Así Canta Perú radio contest in 1962 led the EMI label to hire her. In 1963, songs like "Mi Pobreza" and "Amarga Experiencia" achieved spectacular sales. Her shows were blockbusters, achieving the recognition of both critics and the Chilean public. It was with the song "Cariño Malo" by Peruvian composer Augusto Polo Campos that Pizarro achieved her breakthrough. However, a series of events, exacerbated b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Huasos Quincheros
''Los Huasos Quincheros'' (also known as ''Los Quincheros'') are a popular Chilean folk musical group, first formed in 1937. It currently consists of the musicians Antonio Antoncich, Jose Vicente Leon and Rafael Prieto. Official site musicapopular.cl, retrieved 9 October 2013 The group was nominated for an International Music Prize in 1970. History The original group was formed in April 1937 by Carlos Morgan, the brothers Pedro and Ernesto Amenábar, and Mario Besoaín. The four friends, who at the time were students at the in |
Silvia Infantas
Sylvia Elvira Infantas Soto (14 June 1923 – 19 June 2024) was a Chilean singer, actress, and folklorist. Early years Infantas was born in Santiago in 1923. She was the daughter of Tenor and Jorge Infantas, and grew up in the El Almendral neighborhood of Valparaíso. Singing career She began her singing career in 1942, performing on various radio stations. She was chosen as the best "melodic singer" of 1943 by Radiomanía magazine and eventually became recognised for her performances of Chilean folk music leading the groups "Silvia Infantas y los Baqueanos" (1953–1959) and "Silvia Infantas y los Cóndores" (1960–1969). In 1962, she participated in the third annual Viña del Mar International Song Festival; her performance of "El loro aguafiestas" (with backing from Los Cóndores) won the first place in the competition. Infantas was a central figure in Chilean folk music from 1942 to 1970. She made international tours of Argentina, Uruguay, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buddy Richard
Ricardo Roberto Toro Lavín, also known as Buddy Richard (September 21, 1943, Graneros) is a Chilean singer-songwriter known for his ballads. He began performing as part of the " Nueva ola" ("New wave"). He first recorded in 1962, recording his own songs and singing in Spanish. He signed to Caracol and released his first single, ''Balada de la tristeza'', which became a hit in the summer of 1963. The following year he signed with Arena and released his most well-known songs, ''Cielo'' (as a way to say "Honey", a cover of the Bobby Hebb song '' Sunny''), ''Despídete con un beso'' ("Say goodbye with a kiss") and ''Si me vas a abandonar'' ("If you are going to leave me"). His 1969 live album, '' Buddy Richard en el Astor'', was broadcast live on Chilean television and radio, one of the first live broadcasts in the country. His 1975 song ''Tu cariño se me va'' ("Your love leaves me") and his 1982 song ''Mentira'' ("Lie") (made popular by the Nicaraguan singer Hernaldo Zúñiga) beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
