Jorge González (musician)
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| Birth name | Jorge Humberto González Ríos |
| Born | December 6, 1964 |
| Origin | Santiago, Chile |
| Genres | Latin rock, avant-garde, alternative rock, pop rock, folk rock, punk rock, post-punk, ska, new wave, rockabilly, electronic, synthpop, house, techno |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist |
| Labels | Fusión, EMI/Odeon, Capitol, BMG, Alerce, Warner Music, Cadenza |
| Associated acts | Los Prisioneros, Gonzalo Martinez, Los Updates, Sieg Über Die Sonne |
Jorge Humberto González Ríos (born 6 December 1964) is a famous Chilean singer, who's best known for being the leader, vocalist, writer and bassist of the band "Los Prisioneros", considered by many to be the most popular rock band in the country.
González recorded six studio albums with Los Prisioneros, "The Voice of '80's" (1984), "Kicking Stones" (1986), "The culture of Garbage" (1987) and "Hearts" (1990), "Los Prisioneros" (2003) and "Apple" (2004). After the first separation of the band, González began a solo career, and he edited five studio albums, "Jorge González" (1993), "The future is gone" (1994), "My Destiny" (1999), "Book" (2013) and "Trains" (2015).
Besides, he formed the project "Gonzalo Martínez and his thinking congas" with fellow musician Dandy Jack, which later became to be a prestigious Latin electronic music group, and a precursor of a genre which later became known as "electro-cumbia", and was established as such with their first album in 1997. The album was a success in the underground circuit in Europe, mainly in Germany and United Kingdom.
After the second period with Los Prisoneros, González with his third wife formed the duet "Los Updates" (2007-2011). Los Updates realized a tour in UK, Germany, Japan, Italy, Spain and other countries of Europe.
In 2014, with the pseudonym "Leonino", he edited for the USA market an English album called Naked Tunes. The next year he released a remix of the album called Mixed Feelings.
On 7 February 2015 during a tour in Chile, he collapsed because a Cerebral Vascular Accident. He released this year the singles "Nada es para siempre" and "Trenes, Trenes, Trenes", singles of the upcoming album "Trenes".
In February 1989 Claudio Narea discovered love letters from his bandmate Jorge Gonzáles to his wife. Jorge, also married, admitted adultery, and when Claudio had reconcilled with his wife Jorge proposed a threesome. Claudio refused and the day after the refusal Jorge attempted suicide by taking himself 16 valium pills and self-injuring. In 1990 Narea left the band, and Jorge and Miguel Tapia continued with new members until 1991.
In February 1989 Gonzalez finished mixing "Corazones", their fourth and most successful album. He stayed in L.A under Gustavo Santaolalla's guidance. Back in Chile he started rehearsing for a tour with Claudio Narea and Miguel Tapia. One month beforehand Narea quit amid rumours of the love triangle, embarking on a series of interviews with the Prisioneros hating right wing press, blaming his exit from the successful trio on a "sell out" by the band. But he later decided to ghostwrite a "tell all" book with a writer from El Mercurio, the main dictatorship newspaper, an unexpected move coming from a musician until then considered a hero. In a heavily militarized Chile his juicy story got enhanced with Acid House debauchery (Gonzalez claiming to be the first Latin artist to embrace House and Techno) and colourful tales of drugs and madness. The band split and Jorge got signed by EMI UK and embarked on a successful career until he suddenly broke up a multi-million 6-album deal in order to look for musical freedom, saying goodbye to stardom for almost a decade. He became a cult figure for some and a "troubled" character to the mainstream.
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