MEXICAN GUITAR PLAYERS

A website dedicated to the dissemination and promotion of Guitarists in Mexico and to publicize their projects and events. The largest Directory of Mexican Guitarists.

Alejandro (Alex) Otaola
CDMX

Alex Otaola

Es un ejecutante y compositor mexicano, conocido por su trabajo al lado de Santa Sabina, agrupación a la que pertenece desde 1994, y del grupo de rock La Barranca, a la que se integró en 1998 y se separó en 2007; ese mismo año edita su primer trabajo (multimedia) solista Fractales. En el 2008 es invitado al XV Festival Internacional de Video Arte en Casablanca, Marruecos. Es el primer guitarrista mexicano cuya música ha sido incluida en el cd-sampler de la revista española ‘Guitarra Total’. Actualmente se encuentra integrado al grupo de rock San Pascualito Rey, además de estar promoviendo y distribuyendo gratuitamente su segundo disco solista “El hombre de la cámara” un trabajo grabado en vivo en el 2010 en la Cineteca Nacional durante el ciclo “Bandas Sonoras a Ritmo de Rock”. Es guitarrista de la banda tapatía Cuca después de la salida de Galileo Ochoa en el 2014; con dicha banda ha realizado 3 álbumes.… Read more

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Miguel Alcázar
CDMX

Miguel Alcazar

Guitarrista, maestro, musicólogo y compositor; ha grabado varios discos, entre los que destaca la serie “La historia de la guitarra”, que incluye obras y estilos de los siglos XVI al XX. Obtuvo el primer lugar en el concurso de composición de las Asociaciones Guitarrísticas Mexicanas, también ganó el premio Beryl Rubinstein Scholarship in Composition del Cleveland Institute of Music. Además de concertista de guitarra, Miguel Alcázar compuso la ópera “La mujer y su sombra”, que fue estrenada en 1981 en el Palacio de Bellas Artes y ganó el concurso de la Fundación Morales Estévez.… Read more

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Robbin Blanco
Yucatan

Robbin White

In his hometown of Mérida, Yucatán, he began his studies of electric guitar with the teachers Lorenzo Esquivel and in classical guitar with Ricardo Vega and Miguel Uc at the José Jacinto Cuevas Music Center. He graduated as a concert performer at the Escuela Superior de Música at the Centro Nacional de las Artes in Mexico City with the teacher Josefina Robles to later carry out his master's studies with the teacher Álvaro Perri at the Université Laval in Quebec, Canada, in where he graduated with the highest honors.… Read more

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Tecuhtli CEMICAN
Jalisco

tecuhtli

Guitarist, Vocalist and Founder of CEMICAN. In 2008 a band emerged in Mexico that highlights the glory and greatness of an ancestral and ancient Mexico: CEMICAN. A perfect combination of Metal with pre-Hispanic music. His presentations with dances and the cult of death is something that attracts a lot of attention, total mysticism. They have been performing throughout much of Europe and with plans to return. CEMICAN is a Folk Metal band with a successful fusion of pre-Hispanic roots and Metal.… Read more

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Paco Herrejón
CDMX

Paco Herrejon

Currently sponsored by Blackstar, D'Addario and the Harman group. Member of the group Anxiety. He has collaborated with jazz artists such as Pepe Hernández, Alex Gómez and Jorge Brauet and worked with pop artists such as Sasha, Benny and Erik, Ana Torroja, Ha-Ash and Flans. A pedagogue for 10 years, he has worked in some of the most important academic institutions. He is currently part of the teaching staff at The Contemporary Music School.… Read more

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Manuel López Ramos
CDMX

Manuel López Ramos (1929-2006)

Manuel López Ramos was born in Buenos Aires in 1929 and settled in Mexico in the fifties, his entire guitar career was developed in Mexico, promoting his international career and training most of the country's guitarists, which is why he is included as part of this section of Mexican guitarists since all his life on the guitar and the most important thing in his career was for Mexico.… Read more

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Daniel Segovia
Veracruz

Daniel Segovia

Based in CDMX since he was 8 years old, musical studies at ESTUDIO CONTEMPORANEO DE GUITARRA by Juan José Lavín (RIP), has formed different original music projects since 1988, played in different local stages, competing on several occasions and winning a a demo at Oz de La Castañeda's studio and a scholarship at Martell, currently in the band CUARTO PULSO whose first album is on all digital platforms, under the name CAYO DE CANTO, and now with a new single, ETERNIDAD , which will be part of the second album, 30 years of career already, in national rock.… Read more

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