Los Jaivas
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Viña del Mar, Chile |
| Genres | Folk, folk rock, avant-garde, progressive rock, Latin music |
| Years active | 1963–present |
| Associated acts | Congreso, Violeta Parra, Pablo Neruda |
| Members |
Juanita Parra |
| Past members |
Gabriel Parra † |
Juanita Parra
Claudio Parra
Mario Mutis
Carlos Cabezas
Alan Reale
Gabriel Parra †
Eduardo "Gato" Alquinta †
Eduardo Parra
Ankatu Alquinta
Julio Anderson
Pájaro Canzani
Alberto Ledo †
Florcita Motuda
Marcelo Muñoz
Fernando Flores
Eloy Alquinta †
Los Jaivas are a Chilean musical group who perform in folk, rock, and progressive rock styles.
Los Jaivas appeared in Chilean music in 1963 as a progressive-rock-andino group, mixing rock with South American ancestral music. The Parra brothers met Mario Mutis and Eduardo "Gato" Alquinta (gato is the Spanish word for cat) in their childhood and joined to play music. They acquired fame in Viña del Mar, by playing at diverse parties and shows.
The band took refuge in Argentina after the military dictatorship took over in Chile. In 1977, they headed to France, where they resided for a long time. The first major change in the band occurred in 1988 when Gabriel died in Peru in a car crash. His daughter Juanita took his place behind the drums.
In January 2003, the main singer, Gato Alquinta, died in Coquimbo, Chile, of a heart attack while swimming in the sea. Gato's three sons soon joined the band to replace him: Ankatu (guitar), Eloy (saxophone) and Aurora (vocals). Aurora left shortly after, and Eloy died of a heart attack in 2004 [1]. Ankatu, however, is still a member of the band.
The original name of the band was High-bass, which related to their differences in height, although another source mentions that it was because the bass guitar played at a very high volume compared to the other instruments. However, they quickly realized that an English-sounding name was not appropriate for a folk band, so they changed it to Jaivas (HIGH-BASS), a "Chileanized" pronunciation of "high bass" which ignores the fact that bass (the musical instrument) rhymes with base and lace in English, as opposed to the word bass (the fish) which rhymes with cass and lass, which is how the syllable vas is pronounced in the band's name. The spelling of Jaivas is a misspelling of the word jaibas, which means crabs in Spanish.
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