Jorge González (musician)

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Jorge González

Background information
Birth name	Jorge Humberto González Ríos
Born	December 6, 1964
Origin	Santiago, Chile
Genre(s)	Pop Rock Electronic
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter, guitarist
Label(s)	Fusión EMI-Odeon Capitol BMG Alerce Warner Music
Associated acts	Los Prisioneros

Jorge González was the lead singer, bassist and main songwriter of the Chilean band Los Prisioneros. Besides being the lead singer, he mainly played the bass guitar and synthesizers while in Los Prisioneros but eventually would play electric or acoustic guitar during songs which required two guitars. A synthesized playback bass would be programmed to play during these songs.

After Los Prisioneros disbanded in 1992, he went on to begin a solo career. His first album self titled was released in 1993 and received mixed reviews but was successful for some time. His second album, El Futuro Se Fue was a disappointing release and did poorly in the charts. The album was a stripped down version of González's music, music that was created exactly the same way as his first solo album, except almost all the instrumentation was played and recorded by him, giving the album a small sound, more of a trio compared to his first solo album (which was recorded lavishly with various studio musicians and with production from Gustavo Santaolalla). In present day, the album is seen on a much more positive light than when it was released. The album is currently out of print. In 1999, Jorge put out his final solo album until he reunited with Los Prisioneros in 2001, the album was "Mi Destino: Confesiones de una estrella de rock". The album was received a lot more positively than "El Futuro Se Fue". The first single for the album was "Me Pagan Por Rebelde". After doing some promoting for the album, Los Prisioneros reunited only at least a year after Jorge's last solo album.

As of 2006, Jorge Gonzalez has done a lot of live shows working with electronic dance music and has worked with many known musicians in the electronic music scene, to name one, Sussie 4. Since he now lives in Mexico with his family he is able to work easily along fellow electronic music composers. He has said at the moment he doesn't see himself putting out a new solo album, but that he is working on music since Los Prisioneros broke up as he said "Not working on any new music starts to kill me" (during a recent interview with Rolling Stone Chile).

His new group, called Los Updates are Jorge González and Loreto Otero. Mainly González is creating music, sampling various songs, and hinted to be using Ableton Live (at least for some songs). The new group is focusing on more minimal dance oriented music compared to his electronic rock outfit with Los Prisioneros and his solo albums.