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.

Carlos Santana
Jalisco

Carlos Santana

Carlos Santana is a Mexican jazz-rock and Latin rock guitarist, multi-Grammy winner. He is considered the 15th best guitarist of all time, according to Rolling Stone magazine.… Read more

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Omán Kaminsky
CDMX

Oman Kaminsky

A graduate of the INBA Higher School of Music in Mexico City and the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague in the Netherlands, Oman Kaminsky studied under the guidance of teacher Isabelle Villey and teacher Zoran Dukic.… 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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Gabriela Quintero
CDMX

Gabriela quintero

Rodrigo y Gabriela is a guitar duo originally from Mexico, who gained fame in Ireland and later in the rest of Europe. The members of the band are Rodrigo Sánchez (lead guitar) and Gabriela Quintero (rhythm guitar and percussion). They have dedicated themselves to creating acoustic rock although their compositions are influenced by Latin music, flamenco and Middle Eastern music, while using rhythmic, harmonic and melodic resources typical of rock and heavy metal. ... Read more

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Alejandro Marcovich
CDMX

Alexander Marcovich

He is a Mexican guitarist, singer, composer, arranger and producer, of Argentine origin. Brother of film director Carlos Marcovic. He studied physics at UNAM and music at the National School of Music (UNAM) and at the Higher School of Music (INBA), as well as at the College of Music (formerly the Department of Music) and in the jazz workshop of the Higher School of Music (INBA). He took jazz workshops in America with Joe Diorio and Jim Hall. He has been a founder and member of groups such as: Leviatán, Las Insólitas Imágenes de Aurora, Caifanes. In all of them, he has done one or more of the following tasks: lead guitarist, arranger, author, co-author, producer, co-producer, and singer. ... Read more

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Rodrigo Sánchez
CDMX

Rodrigo Sanchez

Rodrigo y Gabriela is a guitar duo originally from Mexico, who gained fame in Ireland and later in the rest of Europe. The members of the band are Rodrigo Sánchez (lead guitar) and Gabriela Quintero (rhythm guitar and percussion). They have dedicated themselves to creating acoustic rock although their compositions are influenced by Latin music, flamenco and Middle Eastern music, while using rhythmic, harmonic and melodic resources typical of rock and heavy metal.… Read more

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Lalo Galván
CDMX

Lalo Galván (… -2021)

He was a guitarist, composer, session musician, teacher, and musical director from Mexico City. Lalo Galván has developed as a Jazz, Rock and Blues Musician and has combined this with other related activities of the Music Industry, such as teaching, as a guitar teacher and other related topics, from theoretical teaching to the composition of arrangements and orchestration.… Read more

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