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Today le  I present the singer, guitarist and composer Juan Quintero. When I interviewed him at his house in January 2011, he was still part of the young generation of musicians dedicated to the renewal of Argentine folklore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Juan Quintero was born on July 22, 1977 in San Miguel de Tucum\u00e1n. His parents Coco and Maril\u00ed were musicians and sang in the Provincial Choir of Tucum\u00e1n. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So Juan grew up with Argentine and Brazilian folklore. But his parents also listened to classical music and jazz. At the age of 14, Juan began to learn to play the guitar. In 1998 he moved on the advice of Juan Fal\u00fa to La Plata, the capital of the province of Buenos Aires, to study choral conducting at the University of this city. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1999 he founded his trio Aca Seca with the pianist Andr\u00e9s Beeuwsaert and the percussionist Mariano Cantero. The repertoire of the Trio consisted mainly of songs by Juan Quintero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Juan recorded his first Compact of his own songs in 2002, he immediately received the Folklore Revelation Award for the & nbsp; nbsp; newspaper & nbsp; La Naci\u00f3n. Since 2000, he has also performed in a duet with singer Luna Monti. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other singers and musicians with whom he has shared the stage are Mercedes Sosa, Carlos Aguirre, Juan Fal\u00fa, Lilian Herrero and many others. His songs and compositions are now sung and played by the most important Argentine musicians and are very popular among Argentine youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In our conversation, Juan Quintero told me how much the poets of previous generations, such as Manuel Castilla and Jaime D\u00e1valos, mean to him. He spoke of the great interest that youth has aroused in Argentine folklore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is not easy to earn a living without participating in purely commercial events such as the Cosqu\u00edn Folklore Festival or certain television programs, he told me. But there are several cultural initiatives such as Coqui Ortiz’s and his project “La ronda” or the cycle of Juan Falu: “Guitarras del mundo”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

More and more smaller record labels are supporting the innovative and independent folk scene. All of his colleagues who, like Juan, are on this non-commercial path and are true to themselves, enjoy what they do. And that’s the most important thing, Juan told me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen for yourselves everything that Juan Quintero, this brave and talented singer, guitarist and composer, told me one afternoon in the summer of 2011 while we had a mate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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