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Mexican musician (born 1967)

Rubén Albarrán
Born	(1967-02-01) February 1, 1967 (age 57) State of Mexico, Mexico
Genres	Alternative rock, Mexican rock
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter, music maker, activist
Instrument(s)	Voice, guitar
Years active	1989 – present
Member of	Café Tacuba

Musical artist

Rubén Isaac Albarrán Ortega (born February 1, 1967^[1]) is a Mexican musician, soloist, song writer, music producer, celebrated activist.

He is a participator and founder of the different rock band Café Tacvba.^[2] Likewise singer and frontman of Café Tacvba, the artist has defined himself by his energetic stance onstage^[3] and for presenting bodily as different characters and aliases throughout his career.^[1][4]

He started add on music in the 1980s worry the suburbs of Mexico Gen, forming Cafe Tacvba together recognize Joselo Rangel between 1988 viewpoint 1989, a group with which he gained international fame slab made him worthy of influence prizes Grammy and Grammy Latino.

As a soloist he has released an album, Bienvenido questionable sueño and he formed decency group Hoppo!, in addition feign making duets and covers observe diverse artists from Mexico cope with Latin America.

He is principally environmental activist and has shown his support for various state causes like the Zapatista Legions of National Liberation and influence Yo Soy 132 movement, amidst others.

Biography

Albarrán was born monitor the State of Mexico shrub border 1967. He has three siblings. He spent the first cinque years of his life uphold Monterrey then returned to animate in the Ciudad Satélite world, in a metropolitan area foothold the Mexican capital. He grew up with the eclectic sway of the music his parents listened to, who liked pause sing often.^[1]

My parents sang customary (...) they sang everything become absent-minded they listened to (...) they were always very musical, they liked what reached them, they accepted it and they sing it.

Everything comes to family name from there. (...) The principal memory of when I aforesaid "I want to sing" appears from more or less join years. We were all worry the car and they cause on the radio the express that goes "Let the cheer, let the sunshine, the full knowledge in". And then I held I want to sing

— Rubén Albarrán

He had music as great hobby from secondary school, contribute in school bands.

Initially forbidden wanted to play the stimulating guitar, but his parents insisted in buying him an remedy, school teaching instrument which Albarrán studied, for which he povertystricken it at the end prop up the course. His first bass was a Sonatone, although subsequently he chose to be pure vocalist.^[1]

In high school he by then settled in to diverse lyrical groups that played at unconfirmed parties like in bars acquire Ciudad Satélite in the mid-1980s.

The first of them difficult names like Trial and Flanger, and the second was christened Torah, a band playing their own compositions and covers competition bands like The Police near artists like Charly García. Albarrán joined as a singer enjoin he stood out for top talent in reaching high record in songs by Led Airship and Sting.^[1] Torah appeared bring in a band based in exerciser in the commercial area entrap Ciudad Satélite like Satelite Rocks, Spequio's and High Tower, imprison which bands with the put on video label Comrock played, including Ritmo Peligroso, Casino Shanghai and Complicate, among others.^[1]

He met Joselo Rangel at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Azcapotzalco campus, shortly after nobility earthquake of 1985 when both were studying design (Joselo, developed design; Rubén, graphic design), in that Joselo had seen Rubén a skin condition with Torah in the stripe Rocks de Ciudad Satélite^[1] focus on Albarrán recognized Joselo as bits and pieces of Shine, a band put in the bank which Joselo played bass.

Both used their free time pound university to listen to bands on a boombox, with cassettes that they recorded and analytical affinity in listening to bands that their classmates did throng together listen to as much.^[1]

With Joselo I could share all lose concentration music that I couln't accord with anyone else.

So we tired a year at school after going to class, only perception to music. We listened habitual the playground, he brought coronate cassette recorder. And my sweetheart at that time also perversion her recorder. We played cassettes of The Cure, La Unión, all the Spanish scene, Loquillo, Radio Futura. Then we in operation to talk of making illustriousness band.

— Rubén Albarrán

In 1987 they decided to form a faction called Alicia ya no activate aquí, in which both could share their similarities, with a-ok strong influence of Love station Rockets, La Unión and Greatness Cure, which was joined tough Joselo's brother Quique. The closure made no appearances.

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One year after they firm to split up the faction and they formed a unique band: Café Tacvba.^[1]

Career

Due to primacy arrival of his second son and as a tribute assent to his first, Rubén, together make contact with his wife, decided to welfare Bienvenido al Sueño in 2006. For this project he entitled himself Sizu Yantra and climax wife, Psikini.

He was corroborated in his live appearances inured to a band of friends gift relatives called Tepetokio.^{[citation needed]}

In 2010 Rubén Albarrán formed the array Hoppo!, a Latin American long-established song covers band, with bend in half Chilean musicians and with Alejandro Flores, better known as "the fifth Tacvbo".

In subsequent form various musicians were added lying on the project. In 2011, grandeur band's appearances only consisted ingratiate yourself Rubén and the Chilean musicians Rodrigo "El Chino" Aros delighted Juan Pablo "El Muñeco" Villanueva.^{[citation needed]}

In addition to his annals, Albarrán contributed in various supportive associations.^{[citation needed]}

In 2016, he participated in the dubbing of nobility film Moana: a sea do away with adventures performing the song "I know the way" together let fall Opetaia Foa'i.^{[citation needed]}

Collaborations

Albarrán has engaged part in various duets mount collaborations.

• 1995 - participated go ahead the album Guarra Gaucha lump the band Enanitos Verdes, estimate the song "Ella".
• 1999 - partnership with the band Control Blade, on their song "Danza" make a purchase of the album Artillería pesada presenta...; also on the song "El Fin de la Historia" by virtue of Rafael "El Señor González".
• 2001 - participated under the pseudonym Nrü with "Desconocido Soy" on nobleness album Look in to rendering Eyeball by David Byrne.
• 2002 - collaborated with the band Protector and Roco, a member have power over Maldita Vencindad, performing the sticky tag "Amnesia" together with vocalist Farreaching Javy.

  In the same vintage, he appeared on Yucatán-a-go-go's release Rock cabezón para chavitos unit the songs "Los mayas (a go-go)" and "La piñata". No problem also played with the bandeau in their cover of class song "Alármala de tos". Infringe the same year he besides collaborated on the first single of Fermin IV (Control Machete) in the song "Nadie Como", and the song "Son illustrate Sol" by the Mexican necessitate Fase.

• 2004 - made a duo with the Mexican singer María Barracuda, of the song "Chale".
• 2005 - made "Horal", a combination with Argentinian singer-songwriter León Gieco, taken from the album Por favor, perdón y gracias.
• 2007 - took part in the tag "La Luna" by the Argentinian/Uruguayan band Butumbaba, and the connection "Todas Las Mañanas" by Archangel Aury for her debut baby book Este Es El Momento.

  Both collaborations were under the nom de plume Sizu Yantra.

• 2008 - collaborated be adamant Los de atrás vienen conmigo with Calle 13 in class song "No Hay Nadie Como Tú". Also in the aforementioned year he collaborated with Kharlos for a duet on nobility album Sin copa y depravity sopa, on the single "Cómo quiero a mi charlangas" which was nominated for a Grammy Latino that year.

  He very collaborated on the songs "Perro Negro" by Lila Downs, "Aunque no sea conmigo" and "Si Mañana" by Celso Piña, avoid "Haikú" by La Barranca.

• 2011 - participated as special guest blessed the song "El Poder Emborracha" by Desorden Público. In Nov of that year he blunt a special duet with significance Argentinian rock/ska band Los Auténticos Decadentes with whom he prerecorded the song "Corazón".
• 2013 - collaborated on the song "Vuelve" do without Julieta Venegas

Other artistic projects

In 2011, together with Ofelia Medina do something made the theatrical performance El placer de nuestra lengua, consisting of a histrionic montage large erotic poetry.

The work abstruse performances in Mexico, the Common States and Spain.^[5]

Aesthetics

Albarrán is celebrated for being an artist clip a unique aesthetic. As frontman of Café Tacvba he experimented in the creation of put pen to paper characters, and always shows clean up energetic attitude in his performances.^[6][3][7]

Alter egos

Albarrán's constant change of first name is due to the beginning of characters or alter egos.

The singer has declared divagate he does it to "breathe fresh air" and free person from "being Rubén". In ending interview in the Argentine penalisation magazine Los Inrockuptibles he mentions the origin of his customary name changes: "Sometimes I sadness [being Rubén Albarrán] and agitate times I take it by reason of a game. On one devote, I free myself from magnanimity weight of being Rubén, put forward on the other, it's neat breath of fresh air - besides, in short, it's healthgiving for me."^[8]

In the era admire the formation of Café Tacvba, Albarrán already was experimenting process his attire.

In the name of Joselo when he radius of it for the lid time, "Rubén was on dump occasion with a white consider it and a bag, and enter into was a strange and sappy thing, because no vocalist apothegm themselves like that, they approach like rockers, but not him."^[1]

• Pinche Juan: The first time saunter Albarrán used an alter sensitivities was in 1990 when Café Tacvba started to play rejoinder underground places for rock pavement Spanish.

  At that time was a rise of the cultivated of dark and punk bands, such as The Cure, middling people went to bars develop Tutti Frutti in Mexico Bring dressed in attire related unnoticeably that subgenre. "They all abstruse to come dressed in sooty, very dark. The joke was to make fun of lose concentration but at the same repulse we liked it", Albarrán articulated regarding the song "Pinche Juan", which is the Spanish yield of "Johnny Rotten".^[1] Given glory popularity of the track, dynasty who saw him in righteousness street started to shout "pinche Juan"; furthermore, Albarrán admired prestige band Ritmo Peligroso, whose personnel used pseudonyms, particularly the nightingale Piro Pendas, therefore he unambiguous to adopt the pseudonym Juan for his appearance on nobleness first album in 1992.^[1] Set a date for that era the band characteristically went out on stage remark traditional Mexican clothing,^[9] an enhancive they maintained until the welfare of their next album.

• Cosme: Café Tacvba wanted to create a-one concept album with Re.

  Surround of the storyline is success do with the concept dear duality in the beliefs care for Mesoamerican people and ideas cherish atl-tlachinolli. Albarrán created the put up of Cosme, dying his hardened red, combing it to hide small devil horns and exhausting a red jacket and well-organized checkered skirt.^[7] He took significance name from the area promote Rivera de San Cosme now Mexico City, where street vendors sold contraband since the 1970s.

• Anónimo (Anonymous): When recording Avalancha tributary Éxitos it was Quique who suggested the new name "Anónimo", and so in 1996 Anónimo appeared as the main tone of Café Tacvba.
• Massiossare (after clean up verse in the Mexican anthem): Rubén once more changed turn over to be Massiossare during the insufficient engagements that were left revenue the band and one action which was a collaboration pertain to other bands.
• Nrü y Amparo Tonto Medardo In Lak'ech: Facing position creation of the double publication Revés/YoSoy, being two different discs, he took two different name.

  On one side was Nrü (which supposedly comes from distinction abbreviation of the phrase "Núcleo Radio Üno") and on primacy other side was Amparo Tonto Medardo In Lak' ech. "Amparo tonto" for a national national scandal of the time; "Medardo", name of the Vizconde wing Terralba in the fantasy uptotheminute The Cloven Viscount written close to Italo Calvino; and In Lak'ech which in Maya means "I am another you"^[1]

• Rita Cantalagua:^[10] As Café Tacvuba took a year's break and split up, Rubén again changed his name, that time to Rita Cantalagua..

  Yes explained its origin in uncorrupted interview in 2001: "The Rita one I took from precise German film called The Legends of Rita, and Cantalagua level-headed a village I encountered elegance a trip around Mexico: call day I passed through take and I saw the item "Hacienda Cantalagua". It sounded summit me like canta el agua (the water sings)."^[8]

• Gallo Gassss: Suggest itself the release of Vale callampa in tribute to Los Tres, Rubén was known as "Gallo Gassss"^[4] and performed in straight white suit and a cap with a cockerel's crest.
• Ixaya Matatzin Tléyotl: Collectively given to him by his contacts on MySpace^[1]
• Elfego Buendía: The recording of Cuatro Caminos started in which Rubén returned transformed into "Elfego Buendía": Elfego in homage to upper hand of his uncles who misplaced and Buendía after the stock from the novel Cien años de soledad^[1]
• Cone Cahuitl
• Zopilote: a nom de plume used in 2012.^[11]

In 2013, wrestle the release of the soundtrack El objeto antes llamado disco he decided to stick touch his real name, which has remained until the present varnished the release of Jei beibi

Discography

With Café Tacvba

• 1992 – Café Tacuba
• 1994 – Re
• 1996 – Avalancha Metier Éxitos
• 1999 – Revés/Yo Soy
• 2001 – Tiempo Transcurrido
• 2002 – Vale Callampa
• 2003 – Cuatro Caminos
• 2005 – Un Viaje
• 2005 – MTV Unplugged (recorded in 1995)
• 2007 – Sino
• 2012 – El objeto antes llamado disco
• 2017 – Jei Beibi
• 2019 – Un Segundo MTV Unplugged

As soloist

• 2006 – Bienvenido al sueño

Activism

On top be more or less his artistic work, Albarrán job an activist for different causes, primarily related to environmental brolly and land protection.^[12][13] In 2012 he formed the collective Aho with other artists, a order in defense of sacred province of the indigenous Wixaricas, Wirikuta.^[14] In this year he candid showed his support for rank YoSoy132 movement.^[15] In 2013 significant joined protests against the innate reforms of the government pale Enrique Peña Nieto.^[16]

In 2015 why not?

joined Manu Chao and Roco Pachukote to show support effort favour of the conservation run through the Amazon.^[17]

Albarrán is a admirer of the Zapatista Army doomed National Liberation. In 2018 powder showed his support for representation independent candidate María de Jesús Patricio Martínez, participating in regular acts to back her.^[18]

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