PROJECT BASIC 05

SCHEDULE:TUE – THU 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM

STUDENT:ERIKA CARDENAS MENDOZA
TEACHER:PAOLA CUYA
JANUARY:2022
TALKIN ABOUT AN EX BAND
 THE PRISIONEROS
The Prisoners was one of the most selling groups in the Chilean recording industry
and the popularity of their songs spread throughout Latin America. The germ of their
training was the friendship they had since adolescence that united Jorge González
(voice and bass), Claudio Narea (guitar) and Miguel Tapia (drums). Three
companions who shared an interest in the music of foreign rock bands such as Kiss,
The Beatles and The Clash. The band formed by the three friends made their debut
under the name the Prisoners in July 1983, at a festival organized by the Liceo
Miguel León Prado. His first independent recordings. The voice of the 80s, his first
cassette, appeared in 1984 under the label Fusion and was later distributed
massively thanks to an agreement with the Chilean subsidiary, Kicking stones (1986)
transcended the alternative and university circuits to become a record of national
repercussion, thanks to the force of compositions such as "Why don't they go?",
"Move industries" and, above all, the suffering one " The dance of those who are left
over "However, in 1990, things began to go wrong. The guitarist Claudio Narea, who
had already married a young woman named Claudia Carvajal, whom he had met on
the coast, on a Los Prisoners tour, had the surprise of his life when he discovered in
a drawer of his bedroom some letters that Jorge González, the lead singer of the
band, had been sending his wife to him for months. (Jorge González was also
married incredibly, the San Miguel trio had met again in 2001 to give two massive
concerts at the National Stadium and a subsequent presentation at the Viña del Mar
Song Festival. Once again, Narea had left the band in 2003. , showing that the
wounds were still open, however, since 2006 the trio was considered to be
definitively dissolved. Its three founding members are currently developing musical
activities, either as soloists or in collaboration with other musicians.