Anel Paz

Anel Paz was born in the neighborhood of Parque Patricios, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Son of José Manuel Paz and Norma Isabel Bernardez, is 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 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 their parents, he listened classical music, jazz, tango, folk, rock, Brazilian music, artists 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 is 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 plays 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 took harmony, composition, classical guitar, electric guitar, with several teachers, including Luis Alberto 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.

Years later, the Conservatory rewards him, choosing Anel to play in a Master Class offered by the great Eduardo Falu.

After this event, he gets support from his parents to study at the Musicians Institute in Los Angeles, USA. At the Guitar Institute of Technology (GIT), Musician Institute, he studied with Norman Brown, Joe Diorio, Frank Gambale, Paul Gilbert, Scott Henderson, Carl Shroeder, Peter Sprague, among others. He attended seminars with Albert Lee, Al Di Meola, Carl Verheyen, Jennifer Batten, Joe Pass, Robben Ford, Tommy Tedesco, Steve Trovato, and others.

In 1988 he graduated "With Honors" at the Musicians Institute.

Back in Argentina in 1989 he created, with Ricardo Saul, his own music production company: "Raya Diseño de Música y Sonido”. In these years he received several national and international awards, including four times Lápiz de Oro.

He contributes to create the I.T.M.C. (Instituto Tecnológico de Música Contemporánea, certified in Argentina by Musicians Institute), founded by his friend and classmate of G.I.T., Diego Temprano, Anel was instructor and Director of Studies of the Institute.

In the following years, he participated in albums as a guitarist, producer, and arranger, including Enrique Pinti, and Nacha Guevara among other artists.

In 1995 he was summoned by Robert "Polaco" Zelazek to become part of Los Violadores, punk band pioneer of the genre in Latin America, in replace of guitar player Gustavo "Stuka" Fossa.

With Los Violadores, he recorded and co-produced the album "Otra Patada en los Huevos", and he formed part of the historic return's shows of the band at Cemento, in December 1995.

In the following years, they performed shows, music videos, and tours.

In 1997 he recorded a guitar solo version of Hymn to San Martín for electric guitar and orchestra, which was widely broadcast by Mario Pergolini in Radio Rock & Pop

In 1998 he created, with Fernando Buriasco, SuperGaucho Records, his own indie label company and recording studios, where several artists recorded albums, including Cacho Tirao.

He produced, composes and records "Conversacional", Romina Vitale’s first album, and participated in videos and shows as guitar player and music director.

He is recording engineer in the Los Fabulosos Cadillacs's albums "Hola" and "Chau".

In 1999 he formed his own band, Los Políticos, he recorded an eponymous album and participated in videos and shows of the band.[4]

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

In those years he conducted seminars and workshops about improvisation and production, including the Ibanez Guitar Explosion 2003 with Marty Friedman.[5]

In 2003, with Fernando Buriasco, Gianni Dusio and Nicolas Diaz, he created Supercharango,[6] music production company, where he produced and recorded albums for various artists including 12 Monos, "Generacion Pulgar" of Nerdkids, and "Autoayuda" of Sergio Pángaro y Baccarat.

He participated in the music production for films as "Luisa," "El Dedo", "El Ultimo Elvis" (directed by Armando Bo) in which Anel was the producer of the Elvis Presley songs’ recreation).

In 2007, 2009 and 2011 Supercharango is awarded Mejor Productora de Música (Best Music Production Company) with a Premio Jerry Goldenberg a la Excelencia en la Comunicaciones.[7]

Also, Supercharango received eleven Lápiz de Oro, five Lápiz de Platino, a Gold Record, and a Gold FIAP, among other awards.

In these years he worked as a recording engineer on several albums, including: La Tabaré "18 Años" (also participating as a guest musician), Ratones Paranoicos "Enigma", Joaquin Sabina "Nos Sobran los Motivos", Sandro "Para Mamá, Sandro "Para Mamá Vol. 2”, Sandro "Recién Ayer", Sandro "Amor Gitano", Sandro "Secretamente Palabras de Amor", Turf "Para Mi, Para Vos Reversiones"(with Charly García, Los Tipitos, Villanos, among other guest artists).

In 2007 Anel founded his new band El General Paz & La Triple Frontera (GP3F), a multicultural group integrated of musicians from several countries, where they fuse rock, funk, jazz, Latin American song and folklore, creating an original and contemporary style.[8]

Since then, GP3F has been performing shows at many venues in several countries.

Currently, the band is recording their 3rd studio album.

GP3F has toured various scenarios, including:

- Opening act for Gilberto Gil at Teatro Gran Rex 2008 (Argentina)

- Pepsi Music 2008 (Argentina)

- CM Vivo at Canal de la Música 2009 (Argentina)

- Pepsi Music 2009 (Argentina)

- Primer Festival Itinerante de World Music 2010 (Argentina)

- Opening act of Dominic Miller 2011 (Argentina)

- Pepsi Music 2011 (Argentina)

- Quilmes Rock 2013 (Argentina)

- Rock BA 2015 (Argentina)

- South by Southwest SXSW 2015 (USA)

- Bulldog Café 2015-2016-2017 (México)

- CM Vivo en el Canal de la Música 2015 (Argentina) (click to watch the show)

- Festival Brahva de San Marcos 2016 (Guatemala)

- Festival Internacional Cervantino 2016 (México)

- Feria Internacional del Libro 2016 (México)

- Personal Fest Verano 2017 (Argentina)

- Vive Latino 2017 (México)

- TV Brasil - Todas As Bossas (Brasil)

- Feira Expomusic 2017 (Brasil)

- Personal Fest 2017 (Argentina)

- Festival de la Cerveza de Guadalajara 2019 (México)

In 2013 Anel created his own production studio, Full Pampa, dedicated to artistic production and recording.

In Full Pampa he has worked with several artists, including: Banda de Turistas, Diemen Noord, the cycle CMTV Acústicos, El General Paz & La Triple Frontera (GP3F), Enrique Pinti, La Burrita Cumbión, Liliana Herrero, LIMON, Marcelo Ezquiaga, No Compro Más, Siderales, Surfistas del Sistema, among other artists.

In 2016 he is jury of the contest "Camino a Abbey Road".

In 2017 Anel is designated endorser by Tagima guitars.

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