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Artist
Kike Pinto
12+ albums
PeruWorld Musiccantautor
about
Born in 1956 in Lima, from a migrant family from the southern and central regions of the Peruvian Andes. Musician, composer, singer-songwriter, performer, musicologist, researcher and teacher since 1972. He studied composition at the National Conservatory of Music. Creator and director of the TAKI Museum, the first and only museum of Andean and Amazonian musical instruments in Peru, with more than 400 indigenous and mestizo musical instruments in its collection and an archive of field recordings as well as ethnomusicological and ethnographic information of incalculable value and demonstrations, conferences and live recitals with many of these instruments. Since 1974 Kike Pinto starts collecting traditional Andean and Amazonian musical instruments from the native villages and communities of Peru and other Andean and Amazonian countries. He visits villages, towns and communities, contacts musicians and makers, participates in celebrations, festivities and traditional ceremonies and obtains a large number of musical instruments. He records traditional music, interviews and learns to play a number of instruments himself. He learns not only about the music but also about its cultural and ritual context. Organises temporary exhibitions of his collection in Lima and other cities in Peru. Founder of the Andean-Amazonian Institute and Cultural Centre of Culture and Social Development TAKI, which includes the areas of Education, Cultural Promotion, Traditional Medicine and Human a
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El Misterio la Canoa
El Misterio / La Canoa
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Haylli / Waynuchakuna / Huaynitos
Haylli / Taki Hanpi / Del Canto Su Medicina
Wifala
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Tributaries: A Remix Album (El Búho Remixes)
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Haylli Taki Hanpi del Canto su Medicina
HAYLLI - Kike Pinto
Haylli
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Haylli Waynuchakuna Huaynitos
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El Misterio - La Canoa
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Pisaq, 2003