Occupation(s) Musician, Singer Labels DICAP, EMI, Warner Role Musician | Years active 1967–1987 Name Guillermo Oddo Music group Quilapayun (1967 – 1988) | |
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Birth name Guillermo Oddo Parraguez Born October 14, 1943
Santiago de Chile ( 1943-10-14 ) Genres Nueva Cancion Chilena, Protest music, Chilean music Instruments Spanish guitar, Quena, Percussion, Baritone Died November 7, 1991, Santiago, Chile Albums X Vietnam, Los tres tiempos de America, Quilapayun 4, Canciones folkloricas de America, Quilapayun Chante Neruda | ||
Guillermo "Willy" Oddo Parraguez (October 14, 1943 – November 7, 1991) was a Chilean musician and engineer known as a leading vocalist in the Chilean folk music ensemble, Quilapayun between 1967 and 1987.
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Biography
He was born in Chile and studied at the State Technical University in Santiago de Chile, where he participated in the musical "penas" and other cultural and student activities together with Hernan Gomez. He spent some time at the Naval Academy where he showed an aptitude for playing football. He joined Quilapayun in 1967 to replace Julio Numhauser (who left the group) and he rapidly become the most distinctive and loved member of the musical ensemble.
Oddo was Quilapayun's baritenor and played guitar, winds, percussion and was central on stage during live performances. He was the solo vocal on a number of songs, including Canto a la Pampa and Mamma mia dame cento lire of the X Vietnam album, La Carta from the Basta album, Soy obrero pampino... of the Cantata Santa Maria de Iquique, and Pido Castigo. He was a lover of Argentine folk music (especially of tangos and zambas) and a great fan of Carlos Gardel and Los Fronterizos.
Oddo was on tour in France as part of Quilapayun when on September 11, 1973 a US-backed military coup overthrew the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende - who had appointed the group the role of "cultural ambassadors". Oddo, along with the other members of Quilapayun, remained in exile until 1988 when the Pinochet dictatorship began to lift some of the controls it had on its political opponents. In 1987 Oddo went to work in Argentina and in 1988 he returned to his native country of Chile and worked at the Municipality of Santiago until November 7, 1991, when he was assassinated in a night-time incident.
Studio albums
Live albums
Compilations
Songs
El pueblo unido jamas sera vencido
La Muralla
El pueblo unido
Venceremos
Que la tortilla se vuelva
Que dira El Santo Padre
Canto a la pampa
Elegia al Che Guevara
Cancion I
A la mina no voy
El Tururururu
La represion
Un son para Cuba
Tio Caiman
Cancion Final
Contraste
Cancion de la esperanza
Nuestro cobre
La Batea
Malembe
Vamos - mujer
Mi patria
El nino mudo
El buen borincano
Carabina 30-30
Por montanas y praderas
Pido castigo
La ultima curda
Las mujeres de Buenos Aires
Con el alma llena de banderas
Cancion Letania
Huayno 1 - 2 - 3 - 4