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Quique Cruz ( www.quiquecruz.com ) is a Chilean-born musician and composer who has performed, taught and recorded Latin American music for over thirty years. He plays a variety of Andean flutes including Sikus, Antaras (pan-pipes) and Kenas. He also plays guitar and other stringed instruments such as the Venezuelan Cuatro and Bandola and the Bolivian Charango and Ronroco. In addition, he has created multimedia productions involving theater, dance and visual arts.
Cruz has recorded numerous albums with artists such as Jackson Browne Strunz and Farrah,William Ackerman, and has produce albums for the Chilean ensemble Grupo Raiz. Cruz has traveled nationally and internationally and has made significant crossovers into the realm of popular North American music working with artists such as Kenny Loggins, Mimi Fariña Pete Seeger and Sting, among others. In 2000 he released “Tatamonk” with Alex de Grassi, a CD which experimented with Andean musical art forms and jazz. Recordings made in Chile include “Santiago del Nuevo Extremo Live” (2002) and “Charango: Autores Chilenos 2002”
Cruz has a degree in History from the University of California at Berkeley; earned a Master's degree in Latin American Studies from Stanford University, and is presently a Ph. D. candidate in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford.
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