José Manuel Yáñez Meira de Vasconcellos, known as
Joe Vasconcellos, is a singer and composer born in Santiago, Chile on March 9, 1959, to a
chilean mother and
brazilian father. He developed a unique
latin american fusion borne out of a life of traveling, dominated by
latin and
brazilian rhythms. Songs like
Huellas and
Hijo del Sol Luminoso (written while he played as part of the band
Congreso) became hits from the beginning. In his eclecticism, his music still breathes from the roots of the local traditional chilean music. Today he's recording for an independent label after a b…
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