Biography
Ortiga
Real name: Ortiga
Effective period / Period of releases: 1976 - 2000
Members: Rodrigo Tobar, Sergio Terán, Luis Alberto Valdivia, Manuel Torres (5), Daniel Valladares, Marcelo Velis, Mauricio Mena, Juan Valladares, Carlos Mora (3), Juan Carlos García (3), Carlos Basilio, Gonzalo Zambra, Rodrigo Fernández (3), Christian Goza, Arturo Arancibia, Antonio Vasquez (4)
Influential folk, nueva canción, nueva trova, andean & pop music group from Chile, based in Germany. Formed 1974 in Santiago, they went abroad in exile, where they continue their career further, emerging as one of the most important and well known groups that represented then the resistence against the dictatorial regime of Pinochet outside Chile, and among the many comunities of exiled chileans worldwide to this time.Members:
- Marcelo Velis (1974 – •).
- Daniel Valladares (1974 – •).
- Juan Carlos García (1974 – 1980).
- Juan Valladares (1974 – 1980).
- Mauricio Mena (1974 – 1980).
- Carlos Mora (1975 – 1980).
- Manuel Torres (1975 – 1990).
- Arturo Arancibia (1975 – 1976).
- Rodrigo Tobar (1981 – 1987).
- Gonzalo Zambra (1982 – 1984).
- Antonio Vásquez (1982 – 1984).
- Freddy Herrera (1982 – 1984).
- Cristian Goza (1985 – •).
- Carlos Basilio (1985 – 1988).
- Sergio Terán (1987 – 1989).
- Rodrigo Fernández (1993 – •).