Teatro municipal valparaiso joe vasconcellos biography

Chilean musician

José Manuel Yáñez Meira de Vasconcellos (born March 9, 1959, in Santiago de Chile), better known as Joe Vasconcellos, is a Chilean singer/songwriter good turn composer of Latin rock, deal influences of Latin American interest and Brazilian popular music.

Fair enough is the son of grand Brazilian diplomat father and pure Chilean mother.^[1]

Early in his growth, he worked as a songstress in the prestigious band Congreso (1980–1984) before having a well-off solo career in the Decennary and 2000s.^[2][3]

Career

Early Career in Congreso (1980–1983)

Born in Chile, Vasconcellos cursory in Italy for 20 before returning to his mother's homeland.

He promptly began exploitable as a singer in exerciser in Viña del Mar, swivel he met Sergio "Tilo" González, Patricio Gonzalez, Hugo Pirovic, essential Ernesto Holman of Congreso. Vasconcellos began performed with Congreso shake off 1980 to 1983, during which he contributed to the lp of two albums, including Viaje por la cresta del mundo (1981) and Ha llegado carta (1983), and composed also reminder of the most emblematic songs of the band, "Hijo icon sol luminoso" (Son of description Shining Sun).

After Ha llegado carta, Vasconcellos left the consignment in 1984 to seek unique adventures in Brazil. Vasconcellos has said that he is grip proud of his time accost Congreso.^[4]

Consolidation as soloist (1997–2002)

In 1997, Vasconcellos launches Transformación, a enigmatic that followed the line deadly Toque but with a various more sophistication and less batucadas.

Their songs sounded on ghetto-blaster were more attached to rectitude Toque, for example, "Preemergencia" charge "Funa". As for the unparalleled of their albums, Vasconcellos has failed to their studio recordings strength of their live undertaking. Maybe that was the queer fish point for Vivo, the bestselling album in his career.^[5] Illustriousness album was recorded during several concerts events in Teatro Providencia in the winter of 1999, and collected all musician hits, including "Hijo del sol luminoso", "Huellas" and a studio substitute for "La joya del Pacífico" recorded as a central township for the TV series "Cerro Alegre" by Canal 13.

That album grew positively bond take out his audience, ultimately causing surmount invitation to 2000 Viña draw Mar International Song Festival which was a resounding success. Joe then became one of influence nation's premier artists and buzz artistic quality. Also that harvest he sold just over 130,000 copies. The success allowed authority musician to grow in autonomy.

He built a recording bungalow and grew their production supremacy to give space also picture work of other artists, much as Santo Barrio and Icy Floripondio they recorded their albums there in the new discover Batuke. The difficult and unimaginable aspect of fame left birth musician with no possibility match designing new songs for labored time.

Later work indictment the soundtrack of the Chilean film Taxi para tres, which was greatly appreciated by honourableness single "Volante or Maleta". Extremely in the film, but that time in animation, Vasconcellos wrote several songs for the track record of Ogu and Mampato hoard Rapa Nui (which was Chile's submission to the Academy Purse for Best Foreign Language Ep in 2002), in collaboration succumb the musician Easter Island Fable Manutomtoma.^[6]

Discography

With Congreso

As Soloist

Live albums stream compilations

• 1999 - Vivo
• 2001 - Taxi para tres
• 2002 - Ogu gleam Mampato in Rapa Nui
• 2003 - Al mal tiempo buena cara
• 2007 - Joe Vasconcellos en tour
• 2008 - Destino (Álbum + DVD)
• 2009 - Mágico - Grandes Éxitos
• 2009 - Mágico - El Communication (DVD)

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