Charlie Parra del Riego is a Peruvian composer born March 5, 1985. He is also known as Charlie Parra del Riego or Charlie Parra. With band difonia he composed and recorded the guitars of their 3 albums: “Camino Difícil” (2004), “Tarde o Temprano” (2007) and “Génesis” (2010). As a member of Difonía Charlie took part of several festivals in the independent rock circuit of Perú, and shared stage with international bands as “Silverstein”, “Alesana” and “Tres de Corazón”. In 2010 they played in the...
Charlie Parra del Riego is a Peruvian composer born March 5, 1985. He is also known as Charlie Parra del Riego or Charlie Parra.
With band difonia he composed and recorded the guitars of their 3 albums: “Camino Difícil” (2004), “Tarde o Temprano” (2007) and “Génesis” (2010). As a member of Difonía Charlie took part of several festivals in the independent rock circuit of Perú, and shared stage with international bands as “Silverstein”, “Alesana” and “Tres de Corazón”. In 2010 they played in the Colombian festival “Altavoz Festival 2010” at Medellín, together with “The Skatalites”, “Robi Draco Rosa”, “Dante Spinetta”, “Reincidentes” and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Medellín.
With peruvian band 6 Voltios Charlie recorded the guitar solos for their album “Descompresión” (2006).
Charlie became member of this New Metal band Serial Asesino in 2009.
M.A.S.A.C.R.E.
In year 2009, Charlie was recruited to be a part of the band as a replacement of their lead guitar Jaqo Sangalli. With M.A.S.A.C.R.E., in 2009, he opened the concerts of the Argentinian bands “Los Violadores” y “Ratablanca” at Lima - Perú.
Solo career
In the year 2010 Charlie starts his solo career uploading a first series of videos in his YouTube channel, including a heavy metal version of Peru’s National Anthem, the first version of this song in heavy metal style. This version was covered in TV, radio and local newspapers.
In January 2011 he releases his first solo album “Procrastinación/Procrastination”, together with another series of YouTube videos. These videos got different YouTube awards, including “Most viewed (today)”. By this time his videos got more than 3.8 million visits and his channel subscribers passed the 90000.[7] After the release the disc was sold out in a few weeks due to the high international demand. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
