Uña Ramos

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

Mariano Uña Ramos
Ramos playing quena flute
Background information
Born	27 May 1933 Humahuaca, Jujuy, Argentina
Died	23 May 2014 (aged 80) Paris, France
Genres	Andean
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instruments	Quena
Associated acts	Ivano Fossati, Alan Stivell, Urubamba

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, four days before his 81st birthday.[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.