JUANES

Juanes, the Colombian born singer in Medellin, takes his pen name as an abbreviation of his real name, Juan Esteban.Juanes began in the world of the music with only seven years. He was the leader of the group Ekhymosis, with which it recorded five discs in eight years, up to his dissolution. Inside the group he was the singer and guitarist.In 1998 it is going to be lived to The Angels. There it soaks in the music and of the environment that is lived there. The fruit of hisstay is a qualified disc ' Notice well ', realized under the supervision of the Colombian producer Gustavo Santaolalla.The disc turns out to be a bomb explosion and Juanes turns into the musical surprise of the year with 3 nominations to the Latin Grammy.His musical style is a merger of the paces with which it grew, as rock, vallenato and Andean music. From 7 years Julio Jaramillo, Silvio Rodríguez fell caught in the music, with early influences like the tangos of Carlos Gardel, Led Zeppelin, the music arrabalera, Metallica, Diomedes Díaz, U2, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Eminem, Vicente Fernandez, Soda Stereo and Seru Giran, nothing less. It had six teachers of guitar: his dad and his five brothers (Javier, Luz, Gang, Jose and Jaime), that taught him so soon that Juanes does not remember when it learned to tear it. The majority of his songs were written in hotels, planes and dressing rooms during previous tours. His first topic arose in a hotel in Ámsterdam. Juanes shares his life with the quoted model and Colombian actress Karen Cecilia Martínez, with whom it had his daughter Luna in 2003.

Paulo