- Rolando Chaparro
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birthname = Rolando Chaparro Benítez
birthdate =August 2 ,1965
location =Asunción ,Paraguay
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nationality = Paraguayan
field = Musician, Composer, Guitarist
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works = "Polcarera de los lobos" (1989, "Un misil en mi ventana" (1991)
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website = [http://www.rolandochaparro.com/ Official website]Rolando Chaparro is a
Paraguay anmusician , born inAsunción ,August 2 ,1965 . Son of Rolando Chaparro (professional photographer) and Celia María Benítez (actress )First steps
He was very interested in
music since an early age and at the age of 9 he made of the guitar his main instrument. He studied with Kuki Rey and initiated in the jazz studying by 4 years withCarlos Schvartzman . He formed later with Carlos Schvartzman, Remigio Pereira and Mario Rodríguez an experimental musical quartet with jazzy tendencies.Career
In 1984 he grouped with
Berta Rojas andCarlos Noguera .in 1985 he joined to “Síntesis” (Synthesis), a jazz-fusion and folkloric projection group, performing in many places of Asunción.
Between 1987 and 1991 worked with Ñamandu (the duet of Alejandrino “Chondi” Paredes and Ricardo Flecha), forming a folkloric tendency trio, touring and recording in many Latin American countries.
In 1991 joined back to Síntesis, this time with new people. Parallelly, he also joined the jazz-fusion and folkloric projection band of the saxophonist William “Palito” Miranda, performing in the international festivals of
Posadas ,Argentina ;Viña del Mar ,Chile andSao Paulo ,Brazil .In May of 1994 he performed with Síntesis in the Memorial of
Latin America ofSao Paulo and inBuenos Aires . Later that year he definitively left Síntesis to form a new band “Krhizya”, with rock tendency.With Krhizya he records an album in which could be found a classic in the Paraguayan folkloric music, "Reservista Purahéi", but in a blues version, something never done before. This way, Rolando Chaparro marked a hit referring to rock covers of Paraguayan folkloric music.
As a
composer he's one of the most outstanding. His production is of about a thousand pieces including jazz-fusion, folkloric projection, music for theater plays, commercial jingles, music for TV shows, among others. He also developed soloist projects, like “Guitarreros”, withEfrén Echeverría ,Juan Cancio Barreto andBarni Chaparro , performing in various theaters of Paraguay.He played in a concert with the harpist
César Cataldo , obtaining very positive critics from the press.He performed many times with the Symphonic Orchestra of the City of Asunción in very important concerts, recording two discs due to the amazing success of them. He participated in the soundtrack of the Paraguayan film “Miramenometokéi” with a song of his own “Espinas del alma” and with a version of the Paraguayan popular music “Soy algo fácil de olvidar” (I'm something easy to forget).
He was awarded many times by the radio show The Lost Flare.
Work
Discography: all of them include music made by him
Rolando Chaparro performed in countries like
México ,Perú ,Uruguay ,Chile ,Brazil ,Argentina , among others, many times and with different styles.Actually he's teaching at the National Conservatory of Asunción.
He might be considered as the most diverse instrumentalist in the new generation of Paraguayan musicians.
Some of his most famous works:
References
* [http://www.luisszaran.org/DiccionarioDetalle.php?lang=es&DiccID=183#titulo Luis Szaran]
* [http://www.pilsenrock.com.py/show_artist.php?id=11&id_grupo=11 Pilsen Rock]
* EVP - Wikipedia
* [http://www.evp.edu.py/index.php?title=Portada Enciclopedia Virtual Paraguaya - Portal]
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