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Emmanuel Rodriguez was born December 16, 1981, in the town of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. In his formative years he lived in the neighborhood of Tamarindo, an environment known for drugs and violence. From an early age, Rodriguez had a strong desire and skill to write songs about his surroundings and the challenges that came with youth. In 1996, at the age of 16, Rodriguez came to know Jesus, and accepted him as his savior. This would prove to be a decision that would affect not only the course of his career, but the course of his life. He began to...

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María Amparo Ochoa Brown (born Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico - 29 September 1946 - 8 February 1994) was a Mexican singer. Better known as Amparo Ochoa, belonged to a generation of singers that had its origins in the sixties, and emerged from the beginning as the great figure of the nascent Nueva Canción (also Nueva Cancion). Since childhood, said singing at home with his father Don Chano and school events. In 1965 she entered and won a contest in her hometown, with a song called "Hermosísimo Lucero." Since then she used her music to comment/defend social issues, both Mexican and in...

Amparo Montes (born in Tuxtla Chico, Chiapas, México on 22 April 1925 - 13 January 2002) was a Mexican singer most famous for her interpretations of compositions of fellow countryman the famous composer Agustín Lara. Montes made her début on radio in 1938 and soon converted into an outstanding interpreter of bolero style music. During her lifetime she recorded more than a hundred albums. She presented "la cueva de Amparo Montes" (the cave of Amparo Montes) for more than 20 years supported by the shows producer Alex Cardini Jr. The last interview with this great woman was carried out by...

No matter how new the name of the guitarist and singer Amparo Sanchez might seem at the music scene, it builds on vast music experience. Under her arts name of Amparanoia, which would eventually be the synonym of the entire band of which she was the leader, she played about a thousand concerts and released seven albums between 1996 and 2006. The sound Amparanoia played would mix – under the occasional assistance of Manu Chao – Amparo’s perhaps native Spanish mindset with dominant influence of Latin-American rhythms, Cuban music, and reggae. .