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Alvaro Peña

The singer and songwriter Alvaro Peña was born in Valparaíso, Chile in 1943. Since his beginnings in Chile in the sixties until now, a lot of water has passed under various bridges, i.e. Valparaíso, London and Germany. In the recording front many vinyls - until now - and CDs and also gigs and concerts all over the place. This has shown the power of TRANSITIONAL MUSIC, which he has been doing for over 40 years. Never idle, never stagnant, never boring. ALVARO is also associated with bands like THE 101'ERS he founded from a London squatt in 1974 with his late friend Joe Strummer (THE CLASH) and also with Chilean pop bands like THE BOOMERANGS and THE CHALLENGERS, back in the sixties.