Gato alquinta biography of alberta

Musical artist

Eduardo Fernando Alquinta Espinoza (January 22, 1945 – Jan 15, 2003), more commonly get around by his friends and multitude as "Gato" Alquinta, was cool Chilean guitarist and vocalist take from the folk/progressive rock group Los Jaivas, Chile's longest-surviving group.

Earth died of a heart assail while on vacation in Coquimbo, Chile.

Biography

Early years

Son of Carlos Alquinta and Aurora Espinoza Rojas, ,^[1] he began to set aside time to music at blue blood the gentry age of 12. He judicious the songs of Atahualpa Yupanqui without his father noticing him.

He met Claudio Parra file the Guillermo Rivera high nursery school in Viña del Mar, shrivel whom he shared his affection of cinema. This closeness foul-smelling into friendship with the full family of Claudio and Mario Mutis, another friend of dignity clan.

Beginnings in Music

By 1963, the year he began wrapped up engineering at the Federico Santa María Technical University, along steadfast Mario Mutis and the Parra members, they formed a hot combo called The High & Bass that animated parties.

In the group, no problem was the guitarist and acquaintance of the vocalists in nobility band. Later, he dropped ardent of engineering to study framework, a career that he would share with Mario, and put off he would not finish either.^[2] In 1968, he began feign believe that the tropical air that the band performed was incompatible with the ideals consider it they were trying to inform to the public.

For that reason, he traveled to indefinite countries in America together down his wife, to search espousal new ideas and inspirations far establish a new musical element. Later, when he returned put up Chile, he suggested to position band that they should rectify more original and be life-threatening to break with the mighty schemes to make their scrupulous known.

The idea was on top form received, so they adopted primacy name of Los Jaivas infant 1970. Before the appearance be in the region of their first official work, righteousness studio albumEl volantín, from 1971, made the recordings that were later released in 2004 bind a five-disc set called La Vorágine.^[2]

Los Jaivas

After the coup d'état in 1973, the entire buckle decides to flee to Argentina, where they continue with their musical career.

Soon after, by reason of of the repression of probity military regime in Argentina, they had to leave for Author. They settled there in 1977, in the city of Paris.^[3] From there, Los Jaivas experimented with music, through the functioning of imagination and inspirations. Alquinta declared on one occasion lose concentration the song Mira Niñita, was inspired while traveling by car on Viana Street, so like that which they got to the Parra members, they made the trade mark, being one of the swell popular of the band.^[3] Ulterior in 1981, Los Jaivas actualized their most famous and main album, Alturas de Machu Picchu, where several of their songs were inspired by the romantic work of Pablo Neruda.

Put out of misery the years, while Los Jaivas were innovating in various harmonious genres such as progressive boulder, Latin American fusion and custom, they were acquiring progressively betterquality fame. Apart from being glory band's guitarist and vocalist, Alquinta also dedicated himself to scrawl the lyrics for several famed band songs such as interpretation aforementioned 'Mira Niñita', 'Pájaro Errante','Nubecita Blanca', 'Indio Hermano', among distinct others, which is why filth became the best-known figure etch the band.^[2] During an catechize for Revista Vea in 1981, Alquinta declared that he was also dedicated to making euphonic instruments, such as zampoñas, trutrucas, flutes with reeds collected both in Chile and in Argentina and Bolivia.

Additionally, he put into words that he considered himself selected kind of mentholatum within nobleness band because he constantly denaturised instruments.^[2]

Death

While on vacation with authority family at the Mistral voyager complex, on La Herradura strand in Coquimbo, Gato Alquinta departed his balance on some rocks and fell into the o where he remained for indefinite minutes.

When he was pulled out of the water, prohibited was unconscious, so he was transferred to the San Pablo de Coquimbo Hospital, but in spite of efforts to revive him, prohibited died on January 15, 2003, at 6:45 p.m., at the trick of 57 years old. Funding an autopsy by the Permitted Medical Service, they determined drift his cause of death was heart attack.

More than fin hundred thousand people attended potentate funeral in the streets light Santiago de Chile, while realm name became one of primacy most iconic figures in Chilean music. ^[4]

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