Post n°6: Latin-American musicians and creators

Do you know any Latin American musician?

I will talking about a Latin American musician, Eduardo “Gato” Alquinta

Gato Alquinta was a musician of a Chilean band called “Los Jaivas”, he played the electric guitar mainly and other instruments, and he also was the lead singer.

Gato was born at 1945 in Valparaiso, Chile, was a very important musician in Chile, founder member of “The High Bass” on 1963, in that band,  he played the guitar and sang. Years later in 1971 the band changed its name and was called “Los Jaivas” is a band that plays Latin-American fusion music until this days. The band mixes the latin American music with instruments like the drum, the bass guitar, the electric guitar, synthesizers, etc. in the first years of Los Jaivas, the sound of the music that Gato composed, was influenced by the “hippie sound”. Gato, in that band, was the composer of the music of the band, and sometimes he wrote the lyrics of the songs. Regrettably, he died on 2003, he had a public funeral, full of music.

I like the music the he composed, because he did can mix things that hadn´t been created before, like the Latin-American music and rhythms, with an electric guitar for example, like in the song “Mambo de Machaguay”. I think that is the best style of music that was played in Chile, and Gato, one of the best musicians in Chile.