Patricio Manns

Patricio Manns (b. August 3, 1937) is a Chilean composer, author, writer, and journalist. Patricio Manns was born in the rural town of Nacimiento, in the south of Chile on 3 August 1937. He is the son of a primary school teacher and an agricultural engineer of German descent. Both of his parents were also involved in music: his father was a jazz aficionado and his mother studied classical piano. His mother was also central in cultivating his inte... more

Patricio Manns (b. August 3, 1937) is a Chilean composer, author, writer, and journalist. Patricio Manns was born in the rural town of Nacimiento, in the south of Chile on 3 August 1937. He is the son of a primary school teacher and an agricultural engineer of German descent. Both of his parents were also involved in music: his father was a jazz aficionado and his mother studied classical piano. His mother was also central in cultivating his interest in literature. In his youth he took up a broad range of occupations: from coal miner in Lota to reporter for the daily newspaper La patria in Concepción. At the beginning of the 1960s he moved to Santiago where he continued his journalistic work. He was initiated in the field of music when he composed Bandido in 1959, which was recorded in Argentina in 1962 by the folk group Los Travadores del Norte and in Chile by Los Cuatro Cuarto. But it was with the composition "Arriba en la cordillera" (Up in the Cordillera) in 1965 that he achieved... less