Andres Godoy

Location: Santiago

Challenge: Right Arm Amputee

Website: www.andresgodoy.cl

Andres Godoy was born in San Antonio (port) in 1953.

At age 14, he had an accident in which he lost all of his right arm. In time and daily practice, he invented in a self-taught way a technique based on a series of strokes, pulls, scratches, and scrapes, with which he created rhythms, harmonies, and melodies. This technique was called Tatap.

Through passion, imagination, perseverance, observation, and daily work, Andres transformed a disadvantage into an advantage. The Tatap, besides being a tool of musical expression, is a contribution to the development of a new guitar technique that stimulates new generations of musicians to find ways, mental and emotional opening for the exploration of new possibilities of interpretation, composition, and sound.

After many years dedicated to the management and development of cultural projects for young people in Chile, in 2007 decides to return to the stages. From 2008 to 2016, a long series of international tours began that have led him to perform every year, concerts, masterclasses, motivational talks in Germany, Italy, Austria, France, the USA, Canada, China, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Macao, Argentina, and all of Chile.

He has been invited as a featured artist to prestigious festivals of Fingerstyle, Acoustic Guitar, and Guitar Nights in the world, sharing with the most outstanding guitarists of the circuit. In his compositions, Andres integrates folklore, progressive rock, fusion, and jazz.

As cultural manager, Andres was Vice President of the ATR (91-93). Founder and Director of the School of Rock (94-2006). Adviser and collaborator of many cultural projects (SCD, Balmaceda 1215, Cultural Centre Pudahuel, etc). He is currently Project Director Sharing Experience (2009 2016). Director of the School of Music Production (EPM) (2014-2016). Through these projects, Andres has collaborated directly in Chile to musical development, art, and management of thousands of young people from Arica to Punta Arenas. C guitar.

From 1991 to 2016 it has produced CD albums of: Sinergia, Los Peores de Chile, Los Bandoleros de Teno, Polimetro, Cholomandinga, 2X, Subalternos, Chocloneta, Kekoyoma, Lilits, Tito Escarate, Killterry, Cabrera, Kimeros, Egregor, Ataque Polaris Jonathan Caroca, among others.

Andres Godoy