Jorge Drexler is one of the best songwriters around! Yet another talented artist hailing from Uruguay!
I really recommend you check out his songs! he’s a really gifted artist!
I’ve actually gotten to see him perform twice in Los Angeles, and I loved it. The first was at the El Rey theater, and the second performance was at the Walt Disney Concert hall.
His performances are usually intimate concerts, usually featuring Jorge Drexler, his guitarra, and his loop/sampler. Simple yet tasteful.
Jorge Drexler actually won an OSCAR a few years back for writing the best song in a featured film, “Al Otro Lado Del Rio” which was placed in Motorcycle Diaries, the film that featured Gael Garcia Bernal as a young Che Guevara.
More interestingly, the film was scored by acclaimed composer/producer Gustavo Santaolalla.
Check this, when he won his award, Drexler wasn’t allowed to perform his song at the awards due to the fact that no one knew who he was, and according to ABC, what really matters are ratings! So the network producers hired Carlos Santana and Antonio Banderas to perform it for him.
It was lame. Actually, it was horrible! They butchered his song!
Enough of that…
I leave you with one of my favorite songs, a collaboration between Jorge Drexler and Jarabe De Palo!
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