Jorge Siddhartha Gonzalez

Jorge Siddhartha González Ibarra (Guadalajara, Jalisco), better known as Siddhartha, is a soloist rock musician based in Mexico. Siddhartha began his solo career after being the former drummer of Zoé. He has recorded three albums: Why You?, Náufrago (Castaway) and El Vuelo Del Pez (Flight of fish).

History

Siddhartha became one of the most promising artists in Mexico´s music scene just after releasing his first album Why You?, in a casual and independent way (2008). His debut album was considered one of the best works of the country.

The album received many allocades:^[1]

• Winner at the Indie-o Music Awards for the category of Best Solo Artist Album.
• Nominated for the Best Rock Solo Vocal Album Latin Grammy.
• Named one of the best productions of the year by music magazines like Warp, Marvin, Rolling Stone, Sonika and Circulo Mixup.^[2][3]
• The videos Sacúdeme, Control, Volver a Ver and Colecciono Planetas got into the top lists within T.V. channels such as MTV, Telehit, Ritmoson Latino and Exa TV.
• Siddhartha was also invited to include his song Nube within the soundtrack of the movie El Brindis. He was also invited to add Control to another movie´s soundtrack: Bajo la Sal.^[4]
• Also, he was invited to add his track "En Silencio" within the mixed disc of the Latin Alternative Music Conference (edited by National Records) when celebrating its 10 years within the City of New York.
• As well invited to participate in the tribute album for the Chilean serie "31 Minutes" with the song "Mi castillo de Blanca Arena" as the single for this album. Café Tacuba, Ximena Sariñana, Belanova, Natalia Lafourcade, Los Bunkers and other artists contributed within this project.^[5]
• The video "Sacúdeme" was nominated by the Festival Pantalla de Cristal within the categories of Best Post-Production, Best Animation and was the winner of the Best Painting award.^[6]
• "Los Felices" formed part of "Te presento a Laura"´s soundtrack, a movie starring Martha Higareda and Kuno Becker.^[7]

Náufrago

This album is considered as one of the best 10 discs of 2011 by Rolling Stone, Warp Magazine, URL Magazine, Sindicato del Sonido, El Universal, Me Hace Ruido Magazine, Rock MX, Audio Elemental Radio, Life Box Set, receiving the Latin Roll Award for the song Náufrago as Song of the Year and the prize Nuevas Lenguas for Best Artist of the Year.

Siddhartha began his tour "Náufrago" just after the release of the homonym album, successfully presenting at every city, fulfilling scenarios and having tickets sold out. He played at plenty of places like the Lunario of the Auditorio Nacional and the forum Voila Antara.

Some Mexican cities like Puebla, Querétaro, Guadalajara, Morelia, León, Aguascalientes, San Luis Potosí, Oaxaca, Toluca, Xalapa, Pachuca, Tuxtla, San Cristobal de las Casas, Monterrey, Tijuana were integrated to this tour, also a play at Los Angeles was included.

Siddhartha played at the Vive Latino 2012 festival (Mexico´s City).

Jorge Siddhartha has a long musical trajectory, he has contributed and worked with other artists like Zoé; playing the drums in the "The Room" tour, now he is producer of Technicolor Fabics.

Náufrago (album) has been produced by Siddhartha and Aldo Muñoz, mastered at The Exchange Studios (UK) by Mike Mars (Depeche Mode, Empire of the Sun, Phoenix, Chemical Brothers), helped by Marcelo Salazar and Erick Rangel to do the co-production of this album (Rangel integrates part of the band when it is playing live; Salazar used to play the guitar previously).

Actual musicians to perform live:

• Erick Rangel - Synth and Keyboards
• Alejandro Chubaka - Bass guitar
• Siddartha - Guitar and voice
• Rul Volta - Guitar
• Orlando Farías - Drumkit

Former musicians:

• Shaboomy – Guitar
• Marcelo Salazar - Guitar
• Santiago Bedoya - Drumkit
• Axcel Lir - Bass guitar
• Siddartha - Guitar and voice

Discography

• Why You? (2008)
• Náufrago (2011)
• El Vuelo del Pez (2014)

References