Quique Escamilla

Quique Escamilla

Montreal, 2016-07-06
Background information
Born 1980
Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, Mexico
Genres folk-rock
world music
Occupation(s) musician
Years active 1990s–present

Quique Escamilla is a Mexican-Canadian musician, who won the Juno Award for World Music Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2015.[1]

Born and raised in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, Mexico,[2] he began making music in the 1990s as a teenager.[2] He moved to Canada in 2007, settling in Toronto, Ontario, and released his self-titled debut album in 2012.[2] He followed up with 500 Years of Night in 2014.

Escamilla also won a Canadian Folk Music Award for World Music Solo Artist of the Year at the 10th Canadian Folk Music Awards in 2014.[3]

He has toured extensively across Canada. At the 2013 Interstellar Rodeo, he performed with Jim Cuddy and Danny Michel as part of a one-off supergroup billed as the Interstellar All-Stars.[4]

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