Luis Le-Bert
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Luis Le-Bert | |
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| Born | 7 September 1956 Santiago, Chile |
| Nationality | Chilean |
| Education | Instituto Nacional General José Miguel Carrera |
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| Occupation | Musician |
Luis Le-Bert (born 7 September 1956) is a Chilean singer and guitarist. He began performing in 1977, known for his solo career and his spell at the band Santiago del Nuevo Extremo.[1]
Early life[edit]
Le-Bert studied at the National Institute. He entered the architecture faculty of the University of Chile in 1973, the year of Augusto Pinochet's coup. He became a pioneer of the first musical movement born under the military regime: the Canto Nuevo.
Musical career[edit]
Le-Bert's band, Santiago del Nuevo Extremo, was created in 1978, the year Le-Bert returned to Santiago after aborting a career at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso. Together with Pedro Villagra, then a student of Anthropology at the University of Chile, and Jorge Campos, a student of Aesthetics at the Catholic University, he constituted the historical axis of Santiago del Nuevo Extremo. Adding Julio Castillo and Luis Pérez, they formed a quintet. They were four guitars and a double bass, performing mainly in university faculties. His style and his promotional system responded during this time to unrestricted autonomy, maintaining him as a credible and worthy voice, although marginal to mass diffusion.
In 1980 they recorded their first album, A mi ciudad, the group's most popular to date. Songs like "Simply", a statement of daily life, "Homenaje", a greeting to the memory of Víctor Jara, or "A mi ciudad", a description of life in Santiago which references the history and the touch of remains, were hymns for the sectors opposed to the military dictatorship. The band employed indirect and ambiguous lyrics, chiefly because of Le-Bert, to avoid military censorship. "This is how they spoke at that time", the composer recalls. "They said things without saying them."[citation needed]
Santiago del Nuevo Extremo transcended Canto Nuevo due to the breadth of its musical offerings. Its second album, Hasta Encuentros (1983), had a larger set of voices and instrumental innovations, such as the presence of Pedro Villagra's transverse flute. The group traveled to showcase their album in Europe and America, gave recitals at the Café del Cerro, the Cariola theater and universities, and accumulated a popularity that remained anchored in the repertoire of the first album.[citation needed] With repeated line-up changes (with the exception of the Le-Bert-Villagra-Campos axis), the group maintained a high rate of presentations until their third album, Barricadas (1985), in which sound experimentation became the essence of the sextet. Drums, saxophone, electric bass, charango and keyboards became fundamental in their sound. "On the first album, any song could be sung over a campfire. On the third, hopefully half", Le-Bert summarized. The album included the song "La medio fajana", recorded together with Inti-Illimani in Germany, in what was the consequence of a mutual admiration between both groups, expressed in several meetings in foreign stages.
In 1989, as Chile recovered democracy, Le-Bert published a cassette confirming his intention to stay in music, now without the band. This production also supported his commitment to working in two bands between music and architecture, the formal profession that Le-Bert entered during the '70s and has practiced since then, in parallel to his work as a singer-songwriter. The album Calacalacaaaa!!! (2007) offered a new fusion of genres, in a format identified by the author as "cueca-blues", though it also integrated Jazz codes and urban themes. It was recorded together with the group Los Agricultores del Cosmos, made up of people already experienced, such as bassist Juan Caballero and percussionist Carlos Basilio (Framework). By introducing the album, Le-Bert again positioned himself outside the mainstream. “I don't fit in because I haven't changed", he commented. "I'm still the same person who claims not to understand the exchange of anything." He demonstrated this through continuous recitals on the outskirts of Santiago or by supporting the organized resistance in Aysén, armed only with his guitar, confident that his music would reach the people directly.
Discography[edit]
Soloist[edit]
- Luis Le-Bert (1989 - Alerce)
- Calacalacaaaa!!! (2007 - Autoedition)
- El combo cuequero (2010 - Autoedition)
- Canciones fundamentales (2019)
- En Santiago del Nuevo Extremo
Santiago del Nuevo Extremo[edit]
- A mi ciudad (1981 - Alerce)
- Hasta encontrarnos (1983 - Alerce)
- Barricadas (1985 - Alerce)
- Salvo tú y yo (2000 - Autoedition)
- Leuda (2011 - Trompe)
- Santiago del Nuevo Extremo (2016 - Autoedition)
References[edit]
- ↑ "Entrevista a Luis Le-Bert, vocalista de Santiago del Nuevo Extremo: "La actitud del poderoso siempre ha sido desconocer al más sencillo y, por eso mismo, nuestra increíble segregación social es una hueá muy antigua". Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. 12 December 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
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