Astaroth =): The Prisioneros

A long history to tell

One of the most important in the history of American rock and especially rock chilean are prisoners.
Jorge Gonzalez in the voice and guitar, Claudio Narea on bass, and Miguel Tapia on drums, met at the Liceo de San Miguel 6, upon completion of their studies decided to form a band.
His debut was as prisoners at the Liceo Miguel León Prado on July 1, 1983, the first song played by the group param.
In 1984, thanks to Carlos Fonseca, who later would become his manager, released the single The Voice of the'80s and then the length of the same name, which caused a tremendous impact at the time of military dictatorship, although it was a simple, inexperienced or musicians or technicians, served to open the passage in the scene showing a raw Chilean proposal for the time of military dictatorship. Among the highlights are more simple "Voice of'80," "Latin America is a village in the southern USA", "Sex," "Who killed Marilyn?", "Param" and "is never wrong with anyone "
In 1986 released his second long on kicking stones, which are no longer the classic set of guitar, bass and drums into a group of synthesizers, the catapult this production as one of the best bands in South America, obtained two platinum albums and even be invited to the Chateau Rock Festivals in Mendoza Argentina and Montevideo Rock Festival. For this production only work 3 or 4, - "Move Industries", "For the rich," "want money" and "cultural independence" - were all the other tracks of filler, one of these songs became the most popular trio in the history of the Chilean-even surprised themselves, "The Dance of the left over."

As part of its fourth test plate produced the single "We Are Rockers Southamerican," which had marked the line to continue in it, this single was released with a rewrite of The Culture of Garbage, with new versions clean 80% of the songs, including "We are going very well" is now sung by Jorge Gonzalez, paradoxically, this production was never published in Chile, only in some South American countries. A curious fact is that the clip Viedeň "We Are Rockers Southamerican" was the first video in which MTV Latino chain began its programming.

Then came silence, four years as only they know what happened, apparent discrepancies between Jorge Gonzalez and Claudio Narea took nothing out of this friendly who had already proved its worth, this even led to anything good statements of Gonzalez regretting the departure of Claudio but stressing that the prisoners "sounded" better. ?

In 1994 released an album completely different from what is done before Hearts took the name that this production, and its first single, "Tren al Sur", showed some prisoners with a sound clean, neat, but at the expense of losing the identity that sanmiguelinos three boys were in the 80s. With the inclusion of Cecilia Aguayo and Robert Rodriguez, the quartet showed Chilean seeking greater public acceptance. "Tren al Sur", "Estrechez Heart," "Amiga Mía", "Softly," "Por Amarte" megaexitos were the highlights of this board which was on an exclusive composition of Jorge Gonzalez, cool songs and without identity, most of these personal songs that Gonzalez never thought to show the group and would like to keep theirs.

This leads them to participate in the Festival de Viña del Mar, an event which was voceados many times but eventually excluded by their contentious attitude, an attitude that by that time had died.
Then ... the end, December 21 1991 at the National Stadium in Santiago de Chile Los Prisioneros disintegrate, Jorge Gonzalez closed one of the best stages of the rock in Spanish.

Discography
Voice of'80 (1984)