Jorge Siddhartha Gonzalez

Jorge Siddhartha Gonzalez Ibarra (Guadalajara, Jalisco), better known as Siddhartha, is a soloist rock musician based in Mexico. Siddhartha began his solo career after being the former drummer of Zoé. He has recorded three albums: Why You?, Náufrago (Castaway) and El Vuelo Del Pez (Flight of fish).

History

Siddhartha became one of the most promising artists in Mexico´s music scene just after releasing his first album Why You?, in a casual and independent way (2008). His debut album was considered one of the best works of the country.

The album received many allocades:[1]

Náufrago

This album is considered as one of the best 10 discs of 2011 by Rolling Stone, Warp Magazine, URL Magazine, Sindicato del Sonido, El Universal, Me Hace Ruido Magazine, Rock MX, Audio Elemental Radio, Life Box Set, receiving the Latin Roll Award for the song Náufrago as Song of the Year and the prize Nuevas Lenguas for Best Artist of the Year.

Siddhartha began his tour "Náufrago" just after the release of the homonym album, successfully presenting at every city, fulfilling scenarios and having tickets sold out. He played at plenty of places like the Lunario of the Auditorio Nacional and the forum Voila Antara.

Some Mexican cities like Puebla, Querétaro, Guadalajara, Morelia, León, Aguascalientes, San Luis Potosí, Oaxaca, Toluca, Xalapa, Pachuca, Tuxtla, San Cristobal de las Casas, Monterrey, Tijuana were integrated to this tour, also a play at Los Angeles was included.

Siddhartha played at the Vive Latino 2012 festival (Mexico´s City).

Jorge Siddhartha has a long musical trajectory, he has contributed and worked with other artists like Zoé; playing the drums in the "The Room" tour, now he is producer of Technicolor Fabics.

Náufrago (album) has been produced by Siddhartha and Aldo Muñoz, mastered at The Exchange Studios (UK) by Mike Mars (Depeche Mode, Empire of the Sun, Phoenix, Chemical Brothers), helped by Marcelo Salazar and Erick Rangel to do the co-production of this album (Rangel integrates part of the band when it is playing live; Salazar used to play the guitar previously).

Actual musicians to perform live:

Former musicians:

Discography

References

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