ArtistInfo

Juan Carlos Arellano

MX
Composer of Rock and Folk
A.k.a. Juan Carlos Arellano Duran

Mexican composer (Puebla). Musician since 1974, initially playing closest to his heart songs, then folly to sound only themselves. Rock the bolero, the most tender ballad blues to pass his work. "Wise with words and rich in nuances," says the Mexican writer Jose Agustin in the presentation of the first album entitled Domestic Songs Arellano 1987. Recognized as influence Bob Dylan among others, and the romantic vein endorses the essential Alvaro Carrillo (Oaxacan composer). His career has taken him almost the entire country, participating in Universities, Institutes of Culture, cafes, clubs and bars. For six months of 1984, he toured much of Spain as a street musician. He participated in the first and second Festival of Popular Music Mexicana in Los Angeles California in 1991 and 1992. This past year was a fellow of the Trust for the US-Mexico Cultural States with Poblanos project in New York: chronic and music through the radio . In 1995 he composed 13 songs about physics as part of an educational project for high schools, sponsored by the Ministry of Education. In May 1999 and 2002 occurred in the city of New York the show Those who leave: songs of migration. His records: Canciones Domésticas. Discos Pentagrama, 1987 El baile de las cosas. Discos Pentagrama, 1990 Nada en su sitio. Discos Metztli, 1994 En vivo en la ciudadela. Edición de autor. 1996 (caset) La miscelánea de la física. 1996 (Sin publicar) La jauría. Edición de autor. 1998. Próximamente publicará: Besos, rolas y espaguettis con canciones varias compuestas los últimos años 2 a.m.: canciones para desvelados en coautoría con Rafael Mendoza Los que se van: canciones de la migración Discos colectivos: Música en la ciudad. Gobierno de la Ciudad de México, 1990 Somos indios. Tenochdisc Records. Austin, Texas. 1995 Trova contemporánea: en vivo en Oaxaca. Discos Pentagrama, 1999 Canción contemporánea mexicana. Cyanproducción, 2000 Pentragrama 20 años. Vol. 5. Discos Pentagrama, 2002

Genres

• Rock
• Folk
• Latin
• World