Juan Francisco Ordóñez (born 4 October 1961) is a guitarist from Santo Domingo,

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. His music combines blues, rock, and jazz.

Career

Ordóñez graduated high school from Colegio Dominicano De la Salle and later earned a degree in economics from the

Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo The Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD) () is a public university system in Dominican Republic, with its flagship campus in Ciudad Universitaria (lit. University City) neighborhood of Santo Domingo and regional campuses in many citi ...

. He began his guitar studies with Blas Carrasco and later continued on his own. He learned formal music composition from Sonia de Piña at the Dominican National Conservatory. From 1976 to 1977, he took part in the folk group Convite. In the early 1980s, he and Luis Días formed the rock group Transporte Urbano. Ordóñez was Transporte Urbano's lead guitarist for almost 25 years. In 1985, Ordóñez traveled to Moscow in the old U.S.S.R., performing several concerts with Patricia Pereira and Luís Días. Ordóñez started the band OFS with Transporte Urbano drummer Guy Frómeta and Transporte Urbano bassist Héctor Santana. In 1986 they traveled to Peru with Dominican singer Sonia Silvestre to perform at the Festival de la Nueva Canción Latinoamericana. In the 1990s, he started the Caribbean fusion trio Trilogia with Héctor Santana and percussionist Chichí Peralta He is music director for La Vellonera, a band which accompanies Dominican singer Víctor Víctor.

Professional work

Ordóñez has also led a solo career and has worked as an arranger and director of commercial jingles, music for films (as in the short ''Frente al Mar'' about a story of the Dominican writer

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's ''Bitter Sugar''.) Ordoñez has been a popular sideman for musicians in the Dominican Republic, Latin America, and Spain. He has participated in jam sessions with

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Discography

* ''Trilogía'' (Tercer Mundo, 1988) * ''Cabaret Azul'' (1989) * ''Radio Recuerdo'' (Madora Foundation, 2001)

References

This article is a translation of the homonime article in the Spanish Wikipedia :es:Juan Francisco Ordóñez

External links

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