Julio Numhauser

Julio Numhauser is a Chilean musician of the Nueva Canción-movement. He founded the folk music group Quilapayún in 1965 together with the brothers, Julio Carrasco and Eduardo Carrasco, where he stayed until 1967. 1968 he founded the folk music group, Amerindios, together with Mario Salazar. In 1980 he founded the group Somos with Francisco Ibarra and Oscar Salazar.

Numhauser left Chile in 1973 due to the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. In 1975 he moved to Sweden, where he still lives today. In 2000 he was chosen to be the cultural attaché of the Chilean embassy in Sweden by the Chilean president Ricardo Lagos.

Discography

With Quilapayún 1967 – Quilapayún

With Amerindios 1970 – Amerindios 1973 – Tu grito es mi canto 1978 – Alejado de ti... pero contigo

Solo albums 1982 – Todo cambia 1984 – Somos PAX 1989 – A Chile con todo el amor (CBS) 1997 – Nuevos caminos 2001 – Antología (Warner Music)

Collections 2003 – Nueva Canción Chilena. Antología definitiva