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Anel Paz

Jose Manuel "Anel" Paz is an Argentinian guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer, and recording and mix engineer. He has been a member of Los Violadores, and Los Politicos.

Currently, he is the bandleader of El General Paz & La Triple Frontera (GP3F). He graduated "With Honors" at Musicians Institute (Los Angeles, USA), where he was a student of Scott Henderson, Frank Gambale, Paul Gilbert, Joe Diorio, among other maestros. He has been awarded prizes such as Lápiz de Oro (fifteen times), Lápiz de Platino (five times), a Disco de Oro (Gold Record), Premios Jerry Goldenberg a la Excelencia en las Comunicaciones (three times), among other awards.

He was appointed international endorser by Ibanez guitars, a nomination for the first time granted to an Argentine artist. Anel was shown in 2005 Ibanez's catalogue, alongside such as George Benson, Marty Friedman, Paul Gilbert, Pat Metheny, Joe Satriani, John Scofield, and Steve Vai.

Anel Paz was born in the neighborhood of Parque Patricios, Buenos Aires, Argentina, as the son of José Manuel Paz and Norma Isabel Bernardez, the eldest of four brothers.

Since his childhood, he was fascinated by music and musical instruments. His parents supported his vocation, and when he was six years old he was sent to study music and flute to Collegium Musicum.

His family moved to the neighborhood of Flores and at this time of playing soccer in the streets, encouraged by his parents, he listened to classical music, jazz, tango, folk, rock, Brazilian music, artists such as Franz Liszt, Elvis Presley, José Larralde, Paco de Lucia, Eduardo Falu, Sergio Mendez, Frank Sinatra.

At 13 years old, now living in Caballito, he was attracted by the sound and soul of the electric guitar. He discovered artists who influenced him deeply: Carlos Santana, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Van Halen, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Rush, Luis Alberto Spinetta, Jeff Beck, Queen, and African-American blues. When he was 15 he received as a Christmas gift his first electric guitar, and from that moment he founded several garage bands and played with them in shows, school and neighborhood festivals. Some of these garage bands were: Los Espasmódicos, Dr. Rock, Océano, Cognac.

He began his music studies at the Conservatorio Superior de Música Manuel de Falla, and learnt harmony, composition, classical guitar, electric guitar, with several teachers, including, Luis Venosa, Juan Carlos Cirigliano, María Isabel Siewers, Sebastián Piana and Claudio Camisassa. In these years classical music, jazz, fusion and hard rock attracted him: Chopin, Bach, Beethoven, Ravel, Debussy, Albéniz, Leo Brouwer, Randy Rhoads, Serú Giran, Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Mozart, George Benson, Allan Holdsworth, Pat Metheny, John Coltrane, Yes, Charlie Parker, Prince, John Scofield, Miles Davis were his influences.

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