Cien por Cien
Tu Estas tan linda
Magia
Convivienza y paz
KEYBOARDIST, VOCALIST, COMPOSER
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René Simon was born and grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina. At the age of 9 he began taking piano lessons. When he was 17 he entered The Municipal Conservatoire «Manuel de Falla» in Buenos Aires. While studying he formed various groups, joined others and performed with them.
At the age of 25 René Simon travelled to Europe-first to Italy, later to Switzerland where he stayed. At present he lives in Kriens with his wife and three sons.
He founded the group «René Simon & La Iguana». With this group he gave concerts in all of Switzerland. The group produced 3 Albums: „Ritmo caliente“, „Danza caliente“ and „Ritmo y color“.
With two songs from «Danza caliente» he won a prize for the best composer in the categorie Latin at the Benelux International Song & Culture Festival 1999 in Holland. Winner of the contest «A Song for Peace in the World» in Rome. www.songcollections.com/peace
In 1998 he studyed at the Jazzschool of Lucerne (Musikhochschule Luzern, Fakultät III) and got a Diplom as teacher in electronic keyboards. He teaches Keyboard and piano at the Musicschools of Hochdorf, Römerswil, Eschenbach and Ebikon.
RENE SIMON & DAVID BARRETO - EL CUERVO Y EL MANDRIL (2008)
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RENE SIMON & LA IGUANA - RITMO Y COLOR (2003)
Rene Simon (Argentina) Lead & back vocals,
keyboards on all tunes
Vedam Roche (USA) Lead & back, vocals 1,2,3,5,5,7,8,10,13; flute
2,3,7,8,10,11,12
Magda Macle (Cuba) Lead & back vocals 1, 5,6,7,9,11
Victor Agudelo (Colombia) Coro 4
Alejandro Panetta (Argentina) Congas, timbales, bongo
1,3,5,6,9,10,11,13, Congas, bongo 4, palmas, arabic perc. 5
Alberto Stivens (Cuba) Congas, timbales, bongos 2,7,8,12, timbales 4
Michael Spiro (USA) Guiro all tunes, maracas 1,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,1,13
guira 9, bata drums (itotele, Iyesa, Okonkolo) 14
Julio Barreto (Cuba) Timbales congas shakers, china springdrum 14
Stephane Joerg (Switzerland) Congas solo 2
Vladimir Napoles (Cuba) E-Bass 1,3,5,6,11,12
Eduardo "Dudu" Penz (Brazil) Baby bass 2,4,7,8,9, 13
Osvaldo Aden (Argentina) Trumpets all tunes except 14
Rainer Peter (Switzerland) Trombones all tunes except 13 and 14
Juan Munguia (Cuba) Trumpet 13
Martin Lehner (Switzerland) Trombon 13
Pelayo Fernandez (Spain) Tenor sax 13
Heinz Affolter (Switzerland) Guitar 5
Chèvere que mola
Domesticandonos
La fe mueve montanas
Emigrante
Gracias senor
Nostalgia de mi infancia
Cancion y accion
Ritmo y color 6/8
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