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Los Jaivas
Los Jaivas, August 15 1972
Los Jaivas, August 15 1972
Background information
OriginViña del Mar, Chile
GenresFolk, folk rock, avant-garde, progressive rock, Latin music, indigenous music
Years active1963–present
MembersJuanita Parra

Claudio Parra
Mario Mutis
Carlos Cabezas
Alan Reale

Francisco Bosco
Past membersGabriel Parra †

Eduardo "Gato" Alquinta †
Eduardo Parra
Ankatu Alquinta
Julio Anderson
Pájaro Canzani
Alberto Ledo †
Florcita Motuda
Marcelo Muñoz
Fernando Flores
Eloy Alquinta †

Aurora Alquinta

Los Jaivas is a Chilean musical group who perform in folk, rock, and progressive rock styles.

History

Los Jaivas appeared in Chilean music in 1963 as a progressive-rock-andino group, mixing rock with South American ancestral music. The Parra brothers met Mario Mutis and Eduardo "Gato" Alquinta (gato is the Spanish word for cat) in their childhood and joined to play music. They acquired fame in Viña del Mar, by playing at diverse parties and shows.

The band took refuge in Argentina after the military dictatorship took over in Chile. In 1977, they headed to France, where they resided for a long time. The first major change in the band occurred in 1988 when Gabriel died in Peru in a car crash. His daughter Juanita took his place behind the drums.

In January 2003, the main singer, Gato Alquinta, died in Coquimbo, Chile, of a heart attack while swimming in the sea. Gato's three sons soon joined the band to replace him: Ankatu (guitar), Eloy (saxophone) and Aurora (vocals). Aurora left shortly after, and Eloy died of a heart attack in 2004 [1]. Ankatu, however, is still a member of the band.

Name

The original name of the band, proposed by Rolando Fuentes (a friend of founding member Claudio Parra during high school) was High-bass[1]. At that time in Chile, it was customary to use English names for musical bands.[citation needed] Another source indicates that the name is a reference to the members differences in height, since the word in Spanish for bass guitar is the same as that for short (bajo). Another source explains the name as a reference to the bass guitar played at a very high volume compared to the other instruments.[citation needed]

They quickly realized that an English-sounding name was not appropriate for a folk band, so they changed it to Jaivas (HIGH-BASS), a "Chileanized" pronunciation of "high bass" which ignores the fact that bass (the musical instrument) rhymes with base and lace in English, as opposed to the word bass (the fish) which rhymes with cass and lass, which is how the syllable vas is pronounced in the band's name. The spelling of Jaivas is a misspelling of the word jaibas, which means crabs in Spanish.[2]

Homage

A homage was made to Los Jaivas on the occasion of their 50th anniversary, at the Festival del Huaso de Olmué realised in Olmué, Chile, on 23–26 January 2014.[3]

Members

Former members

Discography

External links

References

  1. ^ This version was told by Claudio Parra and Rolando Fuentes to the audience during a concert in November 4th, 2017 at Colegio Sagrado Corazón de Apoquindo, Santiago, Chile
  2. ^ http://etimologias.dechile.net/?jaiba Template:En icon
  3. ^ http://www.tvn.cl/especiales/olmue2014/artistas/los-jaivas-1043460
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