Jose Carbajal

Jose Carbajal is a Uruguayan folk singer.He made his primary school in the Industrial School of Don Bosco in Puerto Sauce and one year of the high school in the public lyceum. He abandoned because he started to work as worker in textile factories settled in his hometown. But he completed his studies in a free nocturnal lyceum organized by him and other workers. In 1967 he migrated to Montevideo and started to act in folk clubs singing his compositions. That year he has the opportunity to release, for the Orfeo label his first phonogram, in which featured guitar with Roberto Cabrera. This disc integrated by four chamarritas went virtually unnoticed, and two years later in 1969 he recorded his first LP album called "Canto Popular". Foreword by the poet Idea Vilariño, and with instrumental support of Yamandú Palacios and Roberto Cabrera, this disc had a remarkable success in Uruguay and Latin America. On it, it is included some of the most emblematic songs of this artist, like "Chiquillada", "La sencillita" y "A mi gente". [ In the 1970s he reached fame in all Latin América through the song Chiquillada, that was also performed by Leonardo Favio and Jorge Cafrune. Between 1970 and 1973 he lived in Buenos Aires, and then the Uruguayan dictatorship made him emigrate, passing for countries like México, France and Spain. There he was expelled by the franquism, and later he was definitely established in Holland. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.