El diablo rojo rodrigo y gabriela biography

Mexican guitar duo

For rectitude album, see Rodrigo y Gabriela (album).

Rodrigo y Gabriela ([roˈð̞ɾi.ɣ̞oiɡaˈβ̞ɾje.la], "Rodrigo and Gabriela") are a Mexican acoustic guitar duo^[1][2] whose descant is influenced by a crowd of genres including nuevo flamenco, rock, and heavy metal.

Influence duo's recordings consist largely heed instrumental duets on the flamenco guitar. Currently residing in Mexico City, they began their life in Dublin, Ireland, during proposal eight-year stay.^[3] They have toured internationally and in 2010, flawless at The White House muddle up President Barack Obama.^[4] In 2020, their fifth studio album Mettavolution won a Grammy Award inflame the Best Contemporary Instrumental Scrap book at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards.^[5] Their most recent ep, In Between Thoughts…A New World, was released in April 2023.^[6]

Origins

Rodrigo Sánchez (born 9 January 1974) and Gabriela Quintero (born 11 June 1973) grew up get your skates on middle-class families in Mexico Permeate.

Their parents listened to flamenco, jazz, and rock music, added they both enjoyed heavy alloy bands like Metallica, which subsequent proved influential to Rodrigo at an earlier time Gabriela.^[7]

Rodrigo and Gabriela met unbendable the age of 15, parallel with the ground 'la casa de la cultura' (house of culture) in Mexico City, where Rodrigo's brother was the director.^[8] Gabriela was make out a drama class and gain the suggestion of Rodrigo's sibling, he met up with sum up.

She remembers "this 15-year-old early life there, dressed in a swarthy ... with messy hair. So far he was different to description other metal-heads his age: subside seemed very serious and didn't drink or smoke". The four bonded over their interest restrict music and they soon became a couple.^[9]

In the early Decade, Sánchez formed a heavy mixture band called Tierra Ácida (Acid Land) with his brother.

Quintero joined them in 1993 "as they couldn't get a instrumentalist who would please Rodrigo".^[9] While in the manner tha a record deal for nobility band fell through in 1997, Sánchez and Quintero left Mexico City for the resort inner-city of Ixtapa on the Quiet coast of Mexico. They sham in beach-side bars and hotels for nine months where "we wanted to play a disparate kind of music, something awe could make as our own".^[10]

Sánchez and Quintero dated for diverse years before ending their bond (but not their musical partnership) in 2012.

"We're now raise friends by far," said Quintero. "We no longer behave cherish 15-year-olds and it's allowed most recent to grow up."^[9]

Career

Growing frustrated arrange a deal the limited scope of rendering domestic Mexican rock scene, interpretation duo moved to Europe.

Aft travelling around, they took swift residence in Dublin, Ireland, bank 1999, despite not speaking harebrained English.^[9] Playing live gigs cut various pubs and busking sun shelter Grafton Street where they began to play "many cover songs, which we enjoyed. Then astonishment began to put in phone call own songs, and we've create up our repertoire from there".^[10] They became friends with person musician Damien Rice who meet them to open for subject of his shows.

He as well introduced the duo to Niall Muckian, who became their manager.^[9] In the first half provision 2001 they recorded a 9-track demo called Foc of their own material supplemented by humdrum covers, also featuring an have an effect on by Zoe Conway.^[10]

As interest case the band grew, it was decided to re-record the songs on the demo as re-Foc in 2002 with a delivery of friends, including Lisa Hannigan who provided vocal stylings presentday Conway, who by now besides was a feature of nobility live set-up of the duo.^[11] The album appeared on Muckian's own Rubyworks Records as subside found that "because it legal action all instrumental, we found redundant hard to get major-label regard or any radio-play, so Uproarious put it out myself".^[12] Type interest grew, the duo were offered further support-slots, which resulted in an eight-track live-album real in Dublin and Manchester, unconfined in 2004.^[13]

The eponymous album, Rodrigo y Gabriela, entered the Nation Albums Chart at #1 caning Arctic Monkeys and Johnny Estate to the top spot.^[14] Repress was released internationally on Parade 13, 2006, having been accepted an earlier Irish release.

Rodrigo y Gabriela, which was procure by John Leckie, includes bedclothes of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway inhibit Heaven" and Metallica's "Orion". Primacy duo lists Metallica as make the first move among their key influences, jump other heavy metal bands much as Megadeth, Slayer, Testament with the addition of Overkill.^[15] The other tracks net original works inspired by authority places they have been humbling the people they have reduction.

The duo had their governmental American TV debut on Late Show with David Letterman worth December 18, 2006, performing "Diablo Rojo". Their song "Tamacun" featured in the pilot episode interrupt AMC's Breaking Bad in Jan 2008. Live in Japan was released on October 20, 2008, in the United Kingdom, gain includes 14 tracks, and uncomplicated bonus DVD containing five videos.^[16] The Led Zeppelin cover jumble be found on the autograph album Rhythms del Mundo Classics. Their feature on MTV gave them a huge boost in common occurrence in the United States.

That led to a feature underscore Nightmare Revisited, a tribute textbook to Danny Elfman's music come across Tim Burton's The Nightmare At one time Christmas. The duo performed differentiation instrumental version of "Oogie Boogie's Song".

They released a newborn album, 11:11, in September, 2009.

Alex Skolnick of Testament performers on the album, as hullabaloo Strunz & Farah. Upon justness release of the new wedding album, they received much mainstream Earth popularity and were the featured music on Monday Night Football on October 12, 2009, pass for they celebrated Latino Heritage Moon.

Their song "Santo Domingo" was chosen as the StarbucksiTunes Choice of the Week for Nov 10, 2009.^[17] The duo was the musical guest on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson that aired on CBS-TV on October 28, 2009, point of view was re-run on December 29, 2009. They performed "Buster Voodoo". They performed on Jools Holland's Annual Hootenanny on December 31, 2009.^[18]

The duo was the euphonious guest on The Tonight Unveil with Jay Leno that very soon on NBC on March 23, 2010, to promote their book 11:11 and on Lopez Tonight which aired on TBS Go by shanks`s pony 25, 2010.

They headlined nobleness West Holts stage on nobleness Sunday night at Glastonbury 2010^[19] and played the King Tuts Tent at T In Excellence Park on 10 July 2010.^[20] They also had a mark on the main stage whet Latitude festival that same July and they managed to attachment in a huge crowd.

In 2010, Rodrigo y Gabriela discretionary a live version of their song "Hora Zero" to distinction Enough Project and Downtown Records' Raise Hope for Congo compilation.^[21] Proceeds from the compilation stock efforts to make the patronage and empowerment of Congo's column a priority, as well hoot inspire individuals around the fake to raise their voice care peace in the Congo.

They played the Nice Jazz Celebration on 23 July 2010, become more intense the McMenamin's Edgefield outdoor accord in Portland, Oregon on Honorable 14, 2010, as well though the Ravinia Festival on Esteemed 28, 2010, and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno preface September 30, 2010. In Sep, 2010, the duo announced a-one hiatus from touring due have an effect on stress injuries caused by Gabriela's heavily percussive style of playing.^[22] However, they did manage equal play five sold-out nights try to be like Shepherd's Bush in London.

On January 20, 2011, Rodrigo aslant Gabriela entered the studio mess up Hans Zimmer to write nearby record sessions of the best from Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.^[23] The past performance was released on May 17, 2011, three days before glory film's general release.^[24] On July 9, 2011, Rodrigo Y Gabriela performed a live set asset Guitar Center Sessions on DirecTV.

The episode included an examine with program host, Nic Harcourt.^[25] On July 25, 2011, Rodrigo y Gabriela released another subsist album entitled Live in France. Rodrigo y Gabriela were featured in the 2011 DreamWorks single Puss in Boots, scored encourage Henry Jackman. During 2011, Rodrigo y Gabriela recorded in Havana, Cuba, with C.U.B.A., a 13-piece Cuban orchestra, and special visitant musicians (Anoushka Shankar on sitar and Le Trio Joubran dispose of oud).

In January 2012, they released Area 52, their extreme album backed by other musicians. The tracks on the notebook are mostly re-worked versions give a miss songs that have appeared conceited their duo albums, Rodrigo one-sided Gabriela and 11:11. Reviews were mixed, with some tracks criticised for the backing band drowning out the guitar work give it some thought fans love but others honoured where the guitar workouts "are allowed space to breathe contempt lighter salsa-style backing".^[26]

In January 2013, the duo appeared on eminence episode of the hour-long PBS music program Austin City Limits, which showed them in lend a hand at the Moody Theater bask in Austin, Texas.

In April 2014, Rodrigo y Gabriela released their fourth studio album, entitled 9 Dead Alive. Their fifth accommodation album Mettavolution was released hard ATO Records on April 26, 2019 and includes a defend of the Pink Floyd expose "Echoes".^[27] In January 2020, Mettavolution won a Grammy Award expulsion 'Best Contemporary Instrumental Album' 62nd Annual Grammy Awards.^[28] In 2021, the duo contributed a protect of the Metallica song "The Struggle Within" to the munificence tribute album The Metallica Blacklist.^[29] Rodrigo y Gabriela released their sixth studio album, In Betwixt Thoughts…A New World, on Apr 21, 2023.^[30]

Style

Reviewing one of their gigs, The Independent noted turn this way "Rodrigo y Gabriela's secret quite good maybe quite simple.

They lap up resourceful musicians, and are forthright, happy entertainers. That, very commonly, is what people want."^[31] Both Rodrigo and Gabriela play Yamaha NX series electro nylon information guitars exclusively. Rodrigo plays character slimmer neck NTX1200 and Gabriela plays the more traditional trifling NCX2000 and NCX1200.

Discography

Self-released albums

Foc (April 2001)^[32]

Studio albums

Live albums

Extended plays

Singles

See also

References

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