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.

Juan Helguera
Yucatan

Juan Helguera (1932-2020)

Mexican guitarist, composer, chronicler and researcher. Considered a true diffuser of the guitar in Mexico and the world. An essential figure in the musical field. His radio program "La Guitarra en el Mundo" had more than three decades of success. ... Read more

Read more "
Miguel Alcázar
CDMX

Miguel Alcazar

Guitarist, teacher, musicologist and composer; He has recorded several albums, among which the series "The history of the guitar" stands out, which includes works and styles from the 16th to the 20th centuries. He obtained first place in the composition competition of the Mexican Guitar Associations, he also won the Beryl Rubinstein Scholarship in Composition award from the Cleveland Institute of Music. In addition to being a concert guitarist, Miguel Alcázar composed the opera “La mujer y su sombra”, which was premiered in 1981 at the Palacio de Bellas Artes and won the Morales Estévez Foundation competition.… Read more

Read more "
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

Read more "
Sergio Vallín
CDMX

Sergio Vallin

Sergio Vallín Loera is a Mexican musician, composer and singer. He is currently the lead guitarist for the Spanish rock band Maná, who after joining in 1994 meant the definitive integration of the band.… Read more

Read more "
Chamín Correa
CDMX

Chamín Correa (1929-2020)

Benjamín Correa, better known by his stage name Chamín Correa (Mexico City, December 4, 1929 - January 14, 2020), was a Mexican musician specialized in playing romantic music with various groups and singers, famous for his virtuous form to play the requinto. ... Read more

Read more "
Hafid Hernández
Baja California North

Hafid Hernandez

Hafid Hernandez, Guitarist, Composer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist, session musician from Tijuana, has collaborated with record productions for: DUI (from underground 2014), Metal Box (the Box productions 2005), Tornografia (2007) Silver, « Do you want to be Free? » (2006), Return (2013) Kung Fu Monkeys, Rudeboy Rockers (2015) this last album participating as a guest musician.
... Read more

Read more "
Gilberto Puente
New Lion

Gilberto Puente

Los Tres Reyes is a musical trio of Mexican origin made up of the brothers Gilberto Puente (second voice, requinto), Raúl Puente (third voice, guitar), currently accompanied by the Cuban Bebo Cárdenas (first voice, guitar, maracas). The trio Los Tres Reyes, led by Gilberto and Raúl Puente, with Hernando Avilés as first voice, was integrated in October 1958.… Read more

Read more "

Learn