Germaín de la Fuente
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Óscar Germaín de la Fuente Maureira (San Carlos ; July 27, 1946) is a Chilean singer- songwriter and musician , best known for being the vocalist of the band Los Ángeles Negros between 1967 and 1974.
Career[edit]
The Black Angels[edit]
Born in the town of San Carlos, Ñuble , De la Fuente showed his qualities as a singer from a young age. He actively participated in the choir at his school, the Consolidated School, and became a regular at different festivals during his school days. Already in adolescence he gained experience as a singer in his father's establishment, Óscar de la Fuente, where he took his first steps in music. There he learned to play the accordion and the guitar . From that time he was already coining that tenor stamp that over time made him famous.
At the age of 20 and while he was part of a band called Los Monarcas, Germaín's luck changed forever. Another musical group, Los Ángeles Negros , was looking to participate in a contest on Radio La Discusión , but there was a problem: they did not have a singer. [ 1 ] After seeing him sing live, the band members invited De la Fuente to be part of them. [ 1 ] They finally won the contest and together they recorded their first LP in March 1969, which catapulted them to fame.
After six years in the group, and after the success of the band on the Latin American scene, the singer left the group to begin his career as a soloist, being replaced by the Mexican singer Ismael Montes .
Solo career[edit]
At the end of 1974 in Mexico he released some albums under the name Germaín: El Ángel Negro and later founded a group called "Germaín Y Sus Ángeles Negros". In the Aztec country he recorded the old hits of the previous musical group, such as "Y Volveré" - from the album of the same name - (Germaín de la Fuente's Spanish version of the song "Emporte-moi", by Frenchman Alain Barrière ); "The King and I"; «Ballad of sadness»; "Murió la flor", composition by him and Nano Concha ; "Leave me if I'm crying", "If flowers could talk", both by Tite Curet Alonso and Nelson Ned ; «Debut and farewell», by Chico Novarro, and "If you are not with me", by R. Rey, among other songs, with which he toured Mexico for 20 years, where in addition to singing live, he released more than a dozen albums such as "Me Llama tú" , "El Romántico De América" "El Disco De Oro" "Paloma Querida", "Qué De Raro?", among others, the latter was recorded in 1996 as a duet with the Peruvian bolerista Lucho Barrios .
At the beginning of the 90s he returned to Chile and after that he founded his own record company in Santiago , DLF, making clear reference to his first surname. With his company she released karaoke albums , his own works, among others. In 2003 he collaborated with the funk band Los Tetas , who covered the classic "Como Quiero dicerte". That same year he shared live shows with bands like Los Pettinellis and Los Bunkers . Currently, De la Fuente has released new projects, including two new songs that are versions of "Seguiré Mi Viaje" by Álvaro Carrillo and "El Bardo" by Bobby Capówhich were published in March 2022 and his most recent album titled "Sinceramente" which compiles in two volumes 30 songs recorded by him at the time when he was on the Orfeón label in the late 70s and early 80s, which was launched in July of the same year. He currently performs live both in Chile and internationally at major events.
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