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Quilapayun

The chilean band Quilapayun

About Me

Our band was founded in 1965 in Chile by Eduardo Carrasco. Leaded by Victor Jara, untill 1969 Quilapayun became wellknown very soon after the begining because of its vocal strength its original style and political comittement. . In 1970, Salvador Allende, the new elected President of Chile, named our group as Cultural Ambassadors. Persecuted by the chilean junta after the military coup of General Pinochet that overthrowned Allende, our group got f political asile in France while Victor Jara was killed in Chile. Our country has recovered democracy, three of ours members live now a days in Chile and five of us are living in France. We have perfomed in more than 35 countries and published about 32 long play records. Recently we published 3 CDs DVD, "El Reencuentro", sort of report of our tour in Chile in 2003, "La Vida contra la Muerte", a compilation of very ancients never published songs and "Inti+Quila", a live CD DVD of the show produced whith our friends of the famous group Inti Illimani leaded by Horacio Salinas. 2005 has been the year of our 40th anniversary. We celebrated it at the Trianon theater in Paris. It was a tremendous 3 hours show with Inti Illimani and other friends. Other concerts for our anniversary took place in Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Italy and Holland. In 2006, we had 2 shows in October at La Cigale in Paris. We've recorded a new CD; "Siempre"; that issued on July 2007 in Chile and South America, and may issue on 2008 in Europe. We've been back to Chile in August and November, in which tour we played with young orquestras. In November we made a tour in Canada. In January 2008 we made 9 shows in France, and we came back to Sweden. I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

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Member Since: 9/13/2006
Band Website: quilapayun.com
Band Members: Eduardo Carrasco, Carlos Quezada, Hernan Gomez, Hugo Lagos, Ricardo Venegas, Guillermo Garcia, Ruben Escudero. Young members: Ismael Oddo (Willy's son. Our group mate Willy was murdered in 1992 in Chile)and Sebastian Quezada, Carlos's son.
Influences: As Violeta Parra, Victor Jara, Atahualpa Yupanqui, Luis Advis in musics. Pablo Neruda, some surrealist poets and the painter Roberto Matta, they have an important influence in our poetic and creative work.
Sounds Like: In fact is very particular style. That depends on the song or instrumental piece we perform. Our style is identified by the coral perform (3 or 4 voices, counterpoint, canons, imitations... ) and the use of folk instruments in our arrangements.
Record Label: Warner Music Chile
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Concierto en Nicaragua!

Hola amigos!Fuimos invitados en Nicaragua para un homenaje a Salvador Allende. El concierto es el sabado 19 de julio
Posted by Quilapayun on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:33:00 PST

Show in Palestine!!

15 years after the first launch, we have been invited by the Palestine International Festival to participate in this event the 12th of july. It's an honor for us to participate once more in this Festi...
Posted by Quilapayun on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:36:00 PST

Nuevas canciones, nouvelles chansons

Hola! Hemos puesto 3 nuevas canciones en nuestro myspace:- Quita Hurpillay, de nuestro ultimo album "Siempre"y 2 mas antiguas y emblematicas- El Forastero, del album live "El reencuentro"- La Muralla,...
Posted by Quilapayun on Mon, 05 May 2008 10:19:00 PST

Reencuentro con México

Hola Amigos Despues de 25 años, haremos una gira en México del 27 de junio al 6 de julio. Podemos ya anunciar un concierto el jueves 3 de julio en el Teatro Metropolitan. Otras fechas estan por confir...
Posted by Quilapayun on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:22:00 PST

advertencia, warning, attention

Les aconsejamos informarse correctamente antes de asistir a los conciertos de Quilapayun. Músicos pertenecientes a otras formaciones anuncian actividades bajo nuestro seudónimo en infraccion de&n...
Posted by Quilapayun on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:47:00 PST

Sweden show!

The show will take place the 24th february in the Uppsala Konsert & Kongress . We're very happy to come back to sweden after so many years.
Posted by Quilapayun on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:06:00 PST

Concierto se puede descargar

Hemos puesto a  disposición de nuestos amigos el registro integro de la Cantata Santa María de Iquique, presentada en el Teatro Caupolicán el pasado 25 de Agosto de 2007, con acompañami...
Posted by Quilapayun on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:25:00 PST

gira chilena, canada’s tour, tournée française

Hola amigos! Con mucho emocion, volvemos a fin de mes a chile, en continuacion de nuestra ultima gira de agosto. Esta vez vamos por el norte. Orquestres juveniles nos acompanaran de nuevo para to...
Posted by Quilapayun on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:49:00 PST

Nuevo disco, gira, articulo

Hola amigos! Nuestro nuevo disco "Siempre" salio el 24 de Julio en Chile! Tambien la gira chilena de agosto se confirmo. Las fechas son en nuestra pagina. Aqui es un link para un articulo que fue publ...
Posted by Quilapayun on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 01:34:00 PST