Julio Numhauser is a Chilean musician of the

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-movement. He founded the

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group

Quilapayún Quilapayún () are a folk music group from Chile and among the longest lasting and most influential ambassadors of the '' Nueva Canción Chilena'' movement and genre. Formed during the mid-1960s, the group became inseparable with the revolution t ...

in 1965 together with the brothers, Julio Carrasco and

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, where he stayed until 1967. 1968 he founded the folk music group, Amerindios, together with Mario Salazar. In 1980 he founded the group Somos with Francisco Ibarra and Oscar Salazar. Numhauser left Chile in 1973 due to the presidency of

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. In 1975 he moved to Sweden, where he still lives today. In 2000 he was chosen to be the cultural attaché of the Chilean embassy in Sweden by the Chilean president

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Discography

With Quilapayún

* 1967 - ''Quilapayún''

With Amerindios

* 1970 - ''Amerindios'' * 1973 - ''Tu grito es mi canto'' * 1978 - ''Alejado de ti... pero contigo''

Solo albums

* 1982 - ''Todo cambia'' * 1984 - ''Somos PAX'' * 1989 - ''A Chile con todo el amor'' (CBS) * 1997 - ''Nuevos caminos'' * 2001 - ''Antología'' (Warner Music)

Collections

* 2003 - ''Nueva Canción Chilena. Antología definitiva''

References

1939 births Living people Chilean folk singers 20th-century Chilean male singers Chilean singer-songwriters Nueva canción musicians Chilean people of German-Jewish descent Chilean expatriates in Sweden Cultural attachés 20th-century Chilean male artists {{Chile-singer-stub