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Jorge Drexler
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Jorge Drexler is a Uruguayan musician, singer, composer, and otolaryngologist born in Montevideo in 1964. He began his work period in 1990 and performs as a tenor, playing the guitar and using his voice. His musical genres include folk music, pop music, alternative rock, and Latin ballad. He speaks Spanish and English.
Drexler has received the Academy Award for Best Original Song, the Goya Award for Best Original Music, and the Latin Grammy Award for Record of the Year. He is married to Leonor Watling and was educated at the University of the Republic. He has released music under the record labels DRO and Virgin Records.
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Montevideo, Uruguay
Jorge Drexler is a Uruguayan composer and singer with a long professional career linked to music and the arts. During his more than 30-year career he has recorded fourteen studio albums and has given concerts all over the world. A doctor by training, in 1995 he decided to leave behind his life in Uruguay and move to Spain to devote himself entirely to music and composition. Throughout his…
Known for
- Pan y Circo — Self2020
- Acústico MTV: Tiago Iorc — Self2019
- Aute retrato — Himself2019
- Al cotxe! — Self - Interviewee2017
- The Great Illusion — Self2016
- La Suerte en tus Manos — Uriel2012
- This Very Instant — Himself2009
- Hit — Himself2008
- Las Lunas del Auditorio — Self2002
- Latin Grammy Awards — Self2000
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- Listeners
- 331,590
- Total plays
- 12,661,454
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Jorge Drexler (n. Montevideo; September 21, 1964), is a critically acclaimed Uruguayan singer/songwriter who resides in Spain, began his recording career in the early 90's but didn't experience mainstream breakthrough success until his seventh album, Eco (2004), and its Oscar-winning song ''Al Otro Lado Del Río''. He comes from a Jewish family that fled persecution in Germany. He studied to become an otolaryngologyst (i.e., ear, throat, and nose doctor) like his parents but ultimately chose to
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Uruguay
- Place of birth
- Montevideo
- Occupation
- otolaryngologist
- Educated at
- University of the Republic
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- folk music
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.jorgedrexler.com
- Image
- Goyas 2025 - Jorge Drexler (cropped).jpg
- Voice type
- tenor
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- Commons category
- Jorge Drexler
- date of birth
- 1964-09-21
- birth name
- Jorge Abner Drexler Prada
- start of work period
- 1990-00-00
- social media followers
- 189000
- name in native language
- Jorge Drexler
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