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.

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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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

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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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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

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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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