Frank Quintero: Juan Francisco Quintero Mendoza, better known as Frank Quintero was born in Caracas, Venezuela , 27 November 1952. He is a musician, composer and performer Venezuela.
Beginning in 1979, while studying in Boston, Frank Quintero began his career as a soloist and composer, while developing in parallel performing their work, a fact which led to the realization their first LP in this new stage "Night and With Little Light" (1980), promotional theme, Song for You, was a success, allowing him to enter in the taste of the masses and consolidate your career.
In August 1980, Quintero was made in the Polyhedron of Caracas with his band, becoming the first Venezuelan pop singer who appears alone on that stage and able to overcome. Similarly, in the same year, Zildjian Cymbals, a firm dedicated to making cymbals for percussion instruments, hired him as an image of their products, an activity that worked with that firm until 1992.
During the series of concerts Berklee Music Festival of 1981, Berklee Concert Series Award 1981, the group Quintero won the first prize as best performer Banda and was awarded as the best drummer Buddy Rich. Similarly, appeared in various U.S. cities as Atlanta and New Jersey. Also in that year, Frank Quintero appeared on the 300 million English Television (TVE), which was spread throughout Latin America, and also managed to form his independent production company called Lady Moon, by the name of one of his compositions .
During this period, engaged in constant and recorded solo discs "Words and Music" (1981) and "Birds and Stars" (1981), with Columbia CBS Company. The latter production included only an instrumental, had less influence of the jazz genre, and had a greater tendency toward issues and voiced pop.
In 1982, obtained at Berklee Performer Musician titles on drums and producer, in the words professional musician. That year he returned to his country intends to continue expanding his professional life, while sporadically continued to travel to Los Angeles and New York for the same purpose.
was released in 1984 the album "Through My Eyes ", first album in his career recorded in both the U.S. and Venezuela. The themes that were extracted from this album to be released on the radio led him to make his third tour of Venezuela.
Then in 1985, is hired by the record company, now defunct, Sonorodven, then embarking on a trip to the U.S. to record its sixth long-term, which would by name Sunset Street. The high rate of promotion to receive this material by the record company and the musical style that it was handled, it became a major success, since most of the items were broadcast. The high sales of this recording earned him a "gold record" and "platinum." It also allowed him to make his fourth national tour, in which first presented at the Aula Magna of the Universidad Central de Venezuela, December 16, 1986. Similarly, two of the album's songs were included on the soundtrack of the film Venezuelan Halley Generation, held that year, plus another item that is not part of any of the albums that make up its production: Love Theme Sonia.
Thereafter, Quintero alternate presentations with recording sessions, through several albums for the label Sonorodven made, most notably the tours conducted during the months of August and September 1989 in Venezuela and colleague Ilan Chester which was given the name "Friends in concert," the couple to resume their activities as a producer and songwriter for other artists , and taking various projects for artists from several record labels, work on which was maintained for three years or so.
at this stage was to Kiara (Rodven - 1987), Guillermo Carrasco (Rodven - 1988), Tokyo (Rodven - 1989), 20/20 (SPI - 1988), Delia (EMI - 1988), Fernando and Juan Carlos ( sonographic - 1987), Paul Gillman (Rodven - 1988) (work done by Leo Quintero collaboration with Frank Quintero) and Sandino (Handmade Records - 1998).
late August 1990, while working individually on tour promoting the album "Buscando Soles", Quintero decided to leave their country and settle in Los Angeles, USA. This decision was motivated because Quintero thought for the most popular Latin artists, the United States was an important basis for offices reside there major multinational record companies. In addition, had received offers to create music in advertising and the ability to compose songs for other artists. This fact came to represent a significant opportunity in the career of Frank Quintero, as their field of work was expanded, allowing you to develop an ongoing activity as a performer, composer and instrumentalist with the company's Latin Music Expo. In this period, he recorded vocals, as special guest, with Sheena Easton, Manoella Torres, John Warren and Willie Colon. Also, formed in Los Angeles a group made up of musicians from that city, appearing weekly in the club Le Café, band with which he devoted himself to interpret their own material, also recorded a commercial with the Mexican singer Luis Miguel and accompanied , as a special guest Jose Feliciano on the tour of 1991.
Back in Venezuela, in the same year (1992), alternated with Ilan Chester again in the Teatro Teresa Carreño and participated in the recording of 20 Million Hearts, along with Oscar D'Leon, Franco de Vita, Soledad Bravo, Ilan Chester, Carlos Mata, Guillermo Dávila, Gustavo Aguado and Yordano. This piece, written and recorded a non-profit, premiered on national radio on April 7 of that year with the intention of promoting a positive outlook on the country as opposed to the tense political and social situation experienced during that Venezuela period.
In 1994, the company publishes a Sony Music disc made with footage taken directly from their concert at The Celarg (Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos Rómulo Gallegos) Frankly the name of Acoustic. Also this year, together with the actors and musicians Guillermo Carrasco, Pedro Castillo and Willie Croes the group "We 4", organization of a short path. In it, Frank Quintero, like other members, he was a singer and instrumentalist.
began operations in 1995 as a radio announcer in Caracas, with the French program, an activity that continues to date. With Frankly, its activity is performed speaker individually as in 1991, and for two consecutive years, dabbled with Ezequiel Quintero Serrano, Pedro Castillo and Guillermo Carrasco in the conduct of the program is not all that bad. Also in that year, Quintero is a music production company called Musical Frank Quintero Organization, comprised of several production companies and music publishers, and among these, the record company Venezuelan Anes Records.
In February 2000 he participated as a singer in the recording of Give Face to Life, with other Venezuelan musicians and performers, to raise funds for the reconstruction of the core located at Simon Bolivar University in the Central Coast, affected as a result of the tragedy of Vargas in December 1999. That same year, around September, Quintero wrote the music while it may sound, writing for the soap opera "Amantes de Luna Llena", the television channel Venevision. This piece earned him notoriety on a radio broadcast, reaching new popularity rates among the public, which led to the publication of the corresponding simple.
Parallel to these activities, Frank Quintero was hired by the German manufacturer Meinl percussion instruments, as the image of their products. In addition, a speaker at the First International Drummers, held in Universidad Central de Venezuela. His paper dealt with techniques and styles of performance in the battery.
Currently, Frank Quintero preparing new material for a possible new album, preparing a second volume of the album dedicated to children ("Songs For My Little Friends") and making presentations in Venezuela on the occasion of his 35 years of artistic life company of other artist friends.
Parallel to all this has said he is writing a memoir tentatively titled "How to survive a rock group in a developing country", which explores and shows both a new facet of his career.
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