Los Huasos Quincheros
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Los Huasos Quincheros is a popular Chilean
folk musical group, first formed in 1937. It currently consists of the musicians Benjamín Mackenna, Antonio Antonich, Ricardo Videla and Patricio Reyes. There were nominated for a World Music Award in 1970.
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
folk musical group, first formed in 1937. It currently consists of the musicians Benjamín Mackenna, Antonio Antonich, Ricardo Videla and Patricio Reyes. There were nominated for a World Music Award in 1970.
Members
- Carlos Morgan, voice and guitar (1937-1965)
- Mario Besoaín, vocals (1937-1938)
- Ernesto Amenábar, voice and guitar (1937-1941)
- Pedro Amenábar, voice and guitar (1937-1942)
- Hernan Velasco, voice and guitar (1938-1957)
- Raul Velasco, voice and guitar (1941-1944)
- Javier Campos, vocals and guitar (1942-1952)
- Hannibal Ortúzar, voice and guitar (1944-1957)
- Jorge Montaldo, voice and guitar (1952-1965)
- Gerardo Rios, voice and guitar (1957-1958)
- Alfredo Sauvalle, voice and guitar (1957-1960, 1965-1994)
- Benjamin Mackenna, voice and guitar (1958 -)
- Sergio Sauvalle, voice and guitar (1960-1967, 1995-2005)
- Ricardo Videla, voice and guitar (1965 -)
- Eduardo Riesco, voice and guitar (1966-1975)
- Patricio Reyes, voice and guitar (1975-1986, 1994 -)
- Hector Inostroza, voice and guitar (1986-1994)
- Antonio Antoncich, voice and guitar (2005 -)
Discography
- Chile Canta (1959)
- Recuerdo de Chile (Souvenir of Chile) (1960)
- Tonadita Chilena (1961)
- Canciones de América Morena (1961)
- Nosotros (1961)
- De Mañanita (1963)
- De La Cordillera Vengo (1964)
- Voces de tradición (1965)
- Micelaneos (1966)
- Chile en una tonada (1967)
- Nicanor Molinare (1968)
- Las tonadas del recuerdo (1968)
- Si vas para Chile (1970)
- Las canciones de Pancho Flores (1971)
- Soy de la Caballería (1973)
- Las memorias de patito (1977)