Gato alquinta wikipedia

Musical artist

Eduardo Fernando Alquinta Espinoza (January 22, 1945 – January 15, 2003), more commonly known by his friends and followers as "Gato" Alquinta, was a Chilean guitarist and vocalist from the folk/progressive rock group Los Jaivas, Chile's longest-surviving group.

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He died of a heart attack while on vacation in Coquimbo, Chile.

Biography

Early years

Son of Carlos Alquinta and Aurora Espinoza Rojas, ,^[1] he began to devote time to music at the age of 12. He learned the songs of Atahualpa Yupanqui without his father noticing him.

He met Claudio Parra at the Guillermo Rivera high school in Viña del Mar, with whom he shared his love of cinema. This closeness turned into friendship with the entire family of Claudio and Mario Mutis, another friend of the clan.

Beginnings in Music

By 1963, the year he began studying engineering at the Federico Santa María Technical University, along with Mario Mutis and the Parra members, they