Freddy Torrealba | en

A distinguished musician, Freddy Torrealba is one of the world's premier virtuosos on the charango. Born in Santiago, Chile in 1966.
In 1979 he joins "Casa Kamarundi", a centre of cultural resistance against the Pinochet dictatorship. In 1980 he begins his musical studies at the Experimental Artistic School of La Reina, where he defined his love for folkloric music. He completes his studies in guitar and begins learning charango. Since then, he and his beloved charango have been inseparable.
In November of 1992, the renowned Cuban singer-composer Silvio Rodriguez, after watching one of his performances, was so impressed that he immediately invited him to perform with him on a tour throughout Chile. Since then, he has been awarded the honour of being named a "Maestro de Charango" by the Bolivian Charango Society, has recorded two solo albums, "Charango y Guitarra" (1994) and "Charago al Sur del Charango" (2003), and has participated in the album "Charango, Chilean Composers" (2003) alongside the most distinguished "charanguistas" in Chile. .