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(Aymara - an Andean First Nation)
Rodolfo is a Canadian musician and composer originally from Latin America. He plays the guitar and many string instruments from the region, including charango, quinto and cuatro. His music expresses his mixed ancestry (Southern European and Indigenous). He has performed throughout Latin America and in most major cities of Canada. His compositions include incidental music for two (CTV) films and several stage plays, including a one-month touring musical, “Angel of Alagoas”, in July-August 2000.
Pino-Robles twice won the folk song competition of the Mid-Autumn Chinese Canadian Youth Festival of Toronto (1984 and 1985) with his ensemble. He has played with Nancy White (Canada) and recorded with Luis Enrique Mejía Godoy and Grupo Mancotal (Nicaragua), and Compañeros (Canada). Rodolfo has also opened for renowned performers such as Patricio Manns, Olivia Oñate (Chile), Daniel Viglietti and Alfredo Zitarrosa (Uruguay), and David Campbell (Guyana-Canada).
He has performed for numerous human rights events and supported many fundraisers for international development assistance and other humanitarian causes. He is engaged to play for conventions, conferences, weddings, funerals and family celebrations, ceremonies, as well as the Saskatoon Fringe Festival and Saskatoon Folkfest.
He released his first cassette in 1993 and released his first CD in 2000 on the label Many Worlds Music. The CD, Alegria, was nominated as Best Aboriginal Recording in the 2001 Prairie Music Awards.
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