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Luis Jara offering a concert in February 2009 in Talcahuano, Chile.
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Background information | |
Birth name | Luis Alberto Jara Cantillana |
Also known as | Lusho Jara |
Born |
Santiago, Chile |
October 25, 1965
Origin | Chilean |
Genres | Masculine |
Occupation(s) | Singer, TV host, actor |
Instruments | Voice |
Years active | 1984 – present |
Labels | EMI Music, Sony Music, Universal Music, Feria Music, Sello Plaza Independencia |
Website | www |
Luis Alberto Jara Cantillana (born in Santiago, Chile, on October 25, 1965), also known as Lusho Jara, is a Chilean singer, ex-actor and TV host.
Also, he has participed in the teleseries De cara al mañana playing as Juan José "El Turco" Aguad and Los títeres from Canal 13, as Pato.
Son of Luis Jara Vergara and Alba Rosa Cantillana, his road to the TV began when he participed in the show Sabados Gigantes, in the Child's Clan section, where take part singers, actors and dancers.
Later, he participed as actor in the teleserie De cara al mañana from Televisión Nacional de Chile in 1982; after that would come his participation in the successful teleserie Los títeres from Canal 13 in 1984. In 1985, he won a festival in the stellar TV show Martes 13 with the song Ámame. To this success, adds the song Me hace falta, with which he gets the second place in the Viña del Mar International Song Festival in 1986. This some year he records his first album Ámame.
Successively, followed by the Otra vez de cero (1988) and Inevitable (1990). Later, he would the repertoire for to make his first recital, Concierto de Antología. The album Un Golpe de Suerte (1992 shows an mature, trusted artist, competent for to perform a high quality and size show, with which he walks Chile.
In 1995, he starts as TV host in Chilevisión, with the show ¿Cuánto vale el show?. Because to be considered as "TV promise". Jara makes two stellars TV show in the channel, too: De aquí no sale and Calor humano, enduring in Chilevisión to December 2002.
To Un Golpe de Suerte was followed by the production Emociones, that includes a heartfelt tribute to his father (deceased in October 25, 1992), next to the pianist Raúl Di Blasio. Two years later he published Para que no me olvides and in 1998 Lo Nuestro Ayer y Hoy.
In 2002 he records his self-titled album and he release his single Mañana, which it becomes a success. This same year, he signs contract with Canal 13, when makes debut in 2003 as TV host of La Movida del Festival (satellite TV show of Viña del Mar International Song Festival), and later he hosted with the comedian Álvaro Salas the TV show Vértigo. His consecration in TV arrives from stellar TV show Mucho Lucho, when he hosted his own comedian and talk show in prime time.