Uña Ramos

Uña Ramos
Ramos playing quena flute
Background information
Born	(1933-05-27)27 May 1933 Humahuaca, Jujuy, Argentina
Died	23 May 2014(2014-05-23) (aged 80) Paris, France
Genres	Andean
Occupation	Musician
Instrument	Quena

Mariano Uña Ramos (27 May 1933 – 23 May 2014) was an Argentine musician.

Uña Ramos was born in Humahuaca, Argentina, near the border with Bolivia. He was a renowned Andean musician and composer, a virtuoso of the quena, the end blown bamboo flute of the Andean Altiplano. He died in 2014 in Paris.[1][2]

Discography

• El Arte de la Quena Vol. 1 (1971)
• El Arte de la Quena Vol. 2 (1971)
• Quena (1972)
• Quena de los Andes (1975)
• Un roseau plein de musique (1976)
• Hermanos al Sol (1976)
• Haru No Umi (1977)
• Initiation à la kena (1978)
• Poupée de porcelaine (1978)
• Le Pont de bois (1979)
• La Vallée des coquelicots (1982)
• Uña Ramos y sus amigos: Canciones y danzas de música Argentina (1985)
• La Princesse de la mer (1986)
• Una flauta en la noche Vol. 1 (1994) (Arton records)
• Una flauta en la noche Vol. 2 (1995) (Arton records)
• Le Souffle du roseau (1996)
• Live in France 2004 (2004)
• Uña Ramos en la Filarmonica de Berlin (2007)

Collaborations

• Urubamba (1974) with Urubamba
• Symphonie Celtique (1980) by Alan Stivell
• La pianta del tè (1988) by Ivano Fossati

DVD

• 2008 - En Vivo en Kehl Alemania 1994 / Live in Kehl Germany 1994

References

1. "Uña Ramos: "Acá no tengo un lugar donde poder hacer música"" (in Spanish). 1 March 2009. Retrieved 12 February 2010.
2. "Uña Ramos, la música que fue de Humahuaca a Berlín". La Nación (in Spanish). 1 February 2003. Retrieved 12 February 2010.