Jorge Drexler

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Sound · 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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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Uruguay

Active from

1964

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

331,590

Total plays

12,661,454

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

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,964x

2. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

   · 2018 · cited 10,996x

3. The organization of the human cerebral cortex estimated by intrinsic functional connectivity

   · 2011 · cited 9,215x

4. 2018 ESC/ESH Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension

   · 2018 · cited 8,297x

5. Diagnosis of multiple sclerosis: 2017 revisions of the McDonald criteria

   · 2018 · cited 7,335x

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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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