Hernaldo Zúñiga
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| Birth name | Hernaldo Zúñiga Gutiérrez |
| Born | June 2, 1955 Masaya, Nicaragua |
| Genre(s) | Ballad Trova |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, Songwriter, Musician, Producer |
| Instrument(s) | Guitar |
| Years active | 1974 - present |
| Label(s) | Zafiro, Warner Mexico, Universal Music Mexico (current) |
| Website | Página Oficial |
Hernaldo Zúñiga. Nicaraguan singer and music composer. He was born in Masaya, Nicaragua on June 2, 1955.
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[edit] Biography
Hernaldo Zúñiga sprouted in the sinus of a family of great political commitment. He was named the same as his father. Hernaldo has three sisters: Marcela, Martha and Paola; and two brothers: Anibal and Armando.
He studied in Jesuits and Salesian colleges.
Later, while adolescent, he lived, for academic reasons, in the United States of America, where studied philosophy. After this, still young and following the familiar tradition, he started to study Laws in Nicargua, but due to the 1972 earthquake that destroyed Managua , he traveled to Chile to continue his university career at the Universidad de Chile, in Santiago.
In Madrid, Spain, where he was moved due to his artistic career, he met the love of his life, Lorenza Ascarraga, and married her in 1988 procreating three children.
At present he lives in Mexico, where performs presentations in audiences of medium appraisal, composes and engraves new albums of excellent interpretive and musical quality.
[edit] Artistic career
At 17 years old, he composed his first song "Ventanillas" (Windows), the same with he participates, during his first year of Laws, in February, 1974, in the XV Festival Internacional de la Canción de Viña del Mar. The song turned into a genuine anthem for the Chilean youth, being born this way, the career of this singer-songwriters of the Spanish language.
Also in 1974, this time in October, obtains the seventh place in the third edition of the Festival de la OTI, celebrated in Acapulco, Mexico, with the song "Gaviota" (Gull), which meant the first participation of Nicaragua in this Festival.
The same year, he records his first album: "Del Arco Iris, Una Canción" (Of The Rainbow, A Song). In spite of the scarce personal support of Hernaldo, for the small margin of free time that his academic obligations were allowing him, each of his songs turn into round successes both into selling and into diffusion.
Again he competes in the amphitheatre of Quinta Vergara in 1977 on having taken part in the XVIII Festival Internacional de la Canción de Viña del Mar, obtaining the second place for Nicaragua with the song "Cancionero" (Song Book). Then he keeps on doing concerts with big popular response, transforming his love for the music into his project of life, which consolidated in 1977 when the label Zafiro of Spain joint him to his cast. The same year, he settles in the Mediterranean town of Calad'o in Majorca (Balearic Islands), where he composes the material of what is going to be his first European album.
In 1978 releases "Cancionero" (Song Book), professionally starting his musical career; the production was directed by [Juan Carlos Calderón]. The album has excellent reception both of the critique and of the public, is edited in [France] with the same resonance achieved in Spain.
It is an enriching and dramatic epoch, the sandinista popular insurrection that in Nicaragua demolishes to the dictatorship of the Somoza and the democratic Spanish transition mark and mold him.
Between December of 1979 and in January of 1980, he records a new work by the hand of the composer and producer Manuel Alejandro, this disc gives him the definitive recognition to his career, it is a multiplatinum in the majority of the Latin-American countries and classics are born as "Procuro Olvidarte" (I Try To Forget You), "Ven con el Alma Desnuda" (Come With The Naked Soul), "Un Pasajero" (A Passenger), "Insoportablemente Bella" (Unbearably Beautiful) or "Ese Beso que Me Has Dado" (That Kiss Yhat You Have Given Me). These songs turn him into an interpreter of international orbit, removing it stylistically from his origins.
In 1982 records the album "A Tanto Fuego" (On So Much Fire) in London, Germany and Madrid; "Mentira" (Lie), of the Chilean Buddy Richard, re-edits the previous success. Two years later "Siglo XX" (XXth Century) appears.
In the year 1986,"¿Cómo Te Va Mi Amor?" (How Do You Do My Love?), song of his in Pandora's voices, turns into affectionate continental anthem. Manuel Mijares also turns into success the Hernaldo's composition "Siempre" (Always). Angela Carrasco, Jeannette, Sergio and Estíbaliz and Yuri between others, endorses success of his compositions.
In this time he is immersed in a sabbatical period of reflection and continuos displacements across Europe, as soon as he broke the ties with the label Zafiro.
Two years later already residing in Mexico, he releases "Qué Increíble Es La Distancia" (What Incredible Is The Distance), album that projects songs of success and worship such as: "Mira Arriba" (Look Above), "Una Vez Al Mes" (Once A Month), "Tengo Unos Celos Que Matan" (I Have A Few Jealousy That Kill) or "Te Llevaré" (I Will Take You).
The ripeness as interpreter and composer begins to be solid. An indefinite retirement of exhibition to the public is autoimposed. He explores, studies and worked at new songs, which lead him to similar records to those of his beginnings, now, enriched with the acquired knowledge and office.
In 1992 appears "Después De Todos Estos Años" (After All These Years), that gathers the beginning of a newly released stage of personal and artistic plenitude. This is a foundational album that Hernaldo produces, prepares arrangements and composes the repertoire.
In London and with the help of Chucho Merchán, he manages to obtain a sound that distinguishes and accompanies him since then. "No Tengo + Patria Que Tu Corazón" (I Have No + Homeland That Your Heart), "¿A Dónde?" (To Where?), "Al Otro Lado Del Mundo" (At The Other Side Of The World) and "Eres Todo Menos Azar" (You Are Everything Less Random) are songs that soon draw into his public.
In 1994, he initiates an intense series of acoustic concerts in places of medium capacity, process that ends on an antological disc, recorded live in the prestigious Teatro de la Ciudad in the capital of Mexico: "Básico D.F." (Basic D.F.), with it, he achieve that new generations discover the repertoire and the voice of an artist of exception.
He signs contract of exclusivity with Universal Music Mexico. "Triángulo De Musgo" (Triangle Of Moss) is the title of the album that initiates his journey in this one, his new record house. The production, arrangements and the songs are Hernaldo's responsibility, the album is recorded in London, Madrid and Los Angeles.
"Nómada" (Nomad) is the name of his most recent production, released in May, 2007.
[edit] Main Discography
- Del Arco Iris, Una Canción (1974)
- Cancionero (1978)
- Hernaldo, El Original (1980)
- A Tanto Fuego (1982)
- Siglo XX (1984)
- Qué Increíble es la Distancia (1988)
- Después de Todos Estos Años (1992)
- Triángulo de Musgo (2001)
- Nómada (2007)
[edit] Live Albums
- Básico D.F. (1994)
- Ciudad Acústica (2002)
[edit] Compilations of Successes
- Grandes Éxitos (2001)
- Los Grandes Éxitos de... Hernaldo
- El Origen
- Mi Historia
