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Juan Antonio Ipiña García (Bilbao, August 17, 1972), better known as Tontxu, is a Spanish singer-songwriter.

Biography

His first guitar was given to him by Moncho Borrajo, who was a friend of the family.

He has been the composer of his songs since he showed his mother the first one at the age of 11. At the age of 22 he moved to Madrid with more than 300 writings, today he has lost count of the number of works created, there are more than a thousand.

In 1990 he began working as a presenter at the 40 Principales station in Bilbao, where he spent five years. He later moved to Madrid, where he began to sing at Cafe Libertad 8. and in other cafes in the capital. In 1996 he signed with EMI Odeon, with whom he made his first albums: Sell (1997) —for which he was nominated as Newcomer at the Music Awards—, Corazón de mudanza (1998), With a song in the teeth (2000) and Basic (2001). This album closes the cycle with the company as a compilation that includes only two new songs: "Vuelvo" and "Chueca". Released from this company, in 2002 he signs with TOOL Music, with which he performs: Contact with reality (2004) and Vocal and consonant cords (2005).

In 2006 he returned to the radio to work on Onda Cero as a collaborator in the program Te doy mi palabra, directed and presented by Isabel Gemio

In March 2010 he made his first tour of Argentina. Surprised that there was a public that knew his previous seven albums, he returned in October of the same year to record an album accompanied only by his guitar, which will be titled Tontxu solo . Recorded at SOLO sound (recording) studio in El Calafate. An album that contains songs from his previous works, plus five unpublished songs. Recorded in front of the Perito Moreno Glacier, in Cuevas, on the shore of Lake Argentino.

He also visits Santiago de Chile for the second time, where he also enjoys a loyal audience that knew his steps during his 16-year career in Spain. Also in Mexico where he performs in various editions of TROVEFEST Garcias to the collaboration and friendship that unites him with "his carnal of him", the author from Querétaro, Edgar Oceransky.

On September 14, their first daughter, Leire Ipiña Herráiz, is born. The one who inherits the gift of composing and singing with an exquisite taste inappropriate for her age and at the age of 15 interprets in French (adapted by herself) in a sublime way the theme & # 34; It was only a kiss & # 34; on the album INVENTAL.

On February 25, 2015, he became a member of the Board of Directors of the SGAE, the International Affairs Commission, the Social Aid Commission for authors (APS) and in 2016 as Institutional Director of the SGAE Author Foundation.

On June 24, 2015, their second daughter, Carla Leonor Ipiña González, was born.

In 2016 he published his ninth album entitled Cicatrizando with the collaboration of author friends such as Laura Granados, Javier Ruibal, Carlos Chaouen, María Toledo and Road Ramos.

In 2018, their third child, Bosco Ipiña González, was born.

Her tenth studio album Tr3inta y tr3s comes out in March 2019, an album full of light with songs created in the inspiring and peaceful Sierra de Gata (Cáceres, Spain)

In July 2019, he was appointed Institutional Director of the SGAE FOUNDATION.

In 2021 he publishes INVENTAL, a revision and readaptation of his best-known songs, arranged this time by the author, producer and arranger Guantanamero (Cuba) Edgar Olivero. In it, he invites several friends to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of his career. Juanra Arnáiz, Joan Tena, Edgar Oceransky, Bebe, Edgar Olivero, Gustavo Almeida, PHOS, Arahí Martínez Carranza "LA Reina Blanca", Leire Ipiña and Luis Felipe Barrio. This album was dedicated to the memory of his friend Rafael Berrio, and his colleagues Pau Donés (Jarabe de Palo) and Luis Eduardo Aute. Disc carefully elaborated during a year and a half, each of its members locked up in their homes and working from their respective "HOME STUDIO"

The album receives never-before-received praise from critics.

Collaborations

Tontxu sponsored some authors from the Madrid scene such as Luis Ramiro or Marwan. In addition, he has collaborated with Kepa Junkera —who already participated in As de guía from his first album—, participating in his album Maren (2001).

His songs have been sung by artists such as Inma Serrano, Joan Tena, Kiko Tovar, Amistades Peligrosas, Sheila Ríos, Cristina del Valle, etc.

Víctor Manuel, Antonio Vega, Javier Ruibal, Laura Granados, Road Ramos, María Toledo, Javier Álvarez, Ella Baila Sola, Inma Serrano, Olga Cerpa from the Canarian group Mestisay, Joan Tena, Ismael Serrano, Bebe, have sung with him. Marwan, Luis Ramiro, Alejandro Martínez, Pablo Sciuto, Kiko Tovar, Paco Bello, Cristina Narea, Paco Cifuentes, Luis Felipe Barrio and Matías Ávalos, Fede Comín, Conchita, Fernando Lobo, Nacho García Vega Edgar Oceransky (Mexico), Gustavo Almeida (Brazil), PHOS (rapper), Leire Ipiña (his daughter), Juan Ramón Arnáiz (Guaraná), Joan Tena (Operación Triunfo), Edgar Olivero...

Spanish Sign Language

For a time, the Spanish singer-songwriter stood in solidarity with people with hearing disabilities, which is why in many of his concerts he was a pioneer in being accompanied by a sign language interpreter, Évelin Vega, to whom he is united by a great friendship familiar.

Discography

• Annex:Tontxu

For Sale (1997)

Published by Emi-Odeón. In the song "Risk", Marilia Andrés Casares, from the duo Ella baila sola, does the second voice. In "Tus modos", they collaborate in the choirs Hijas del sol. In "Place Ace" Kepa Junkera plays the triki.

1. Fire off
2. Guide As. Kepa Junkera collaborates with Trikitixa
3. Understanding
4. For sale
5. Your ways
6. Angel of dots
7. The capricious
8. To touch the sky
9. Risk
10. The dummy dolls
11. September. Includes an extra at the end of the song, known as Shhh or I want to sing

Moving Heart (1998)

Recorded in September 1998 in Lisbon (Portugal), with Julio Pereira. The female choirs are made by Olga Cerpa, from the group Mestisay.

1. What was that?
2. Early
3. Heart of moving
4. Applause
5. Everyone says I love you
6. Thirty and so many
7. Madrid - Barcelona
8. Lying
9. Gila
10. Cups in a bar

With a song in the teeth (2000)

After a traffic accident suffered in the summer of 1999 in Cuba, for which he had to be admitted to the Morón Hospital, he released this album in 2000 under the EMI-ODEON label. She sings with Inma Serrano the song I would stumble on that stone again .

1. We are colors
2. It's not worth it.
3. With a chanting in the teeth
4. If this is over
5. In the middle
6. What would I do without you?
7. I'd stumble back on that stone.
8. Something with you (Original song by Chico Novarro).
9. The most beautiful war in the world
10. The root
11. Erdian (in the middle)

Basic Tontxu (2001)

Compilation of the most applauded songs, sung live. It includes two new themes: Vuelvo and Chueca. In addition, he recovers his mythical duet with Antonio Vega in To touch the sky. It is released simultaneously on DVD.

1. Thirty and so many
2. Come back.
3. Risk
4. Fire off
5. To touch the sky
6. It's not worth it.
7. Heart of moving
8. Lying
9. Madrid - Barcelona
10. With a chanting in the teeth
11. Angel of dots
12. Chueca
13. Everyone says I love you
14. We are colors
15. In the middle

Contact with reality (2004)

Published in 2004 under the Tool Music label. Produced by Tontxu and Gonzalo Benavides. Contains 12 songs by Tontxu and an adaptation of I Shall Sing by Van Morrison

1. Chat
2. Contact with reality
3. Room 304
4. Margot
5. Tribute to La Mandragora
6. Blue Prince
7. Queen
8. Balance zero
9. With you I can be
10. You're doing wrong.
11. Looking for you
12. I do.
13. I'll sing

Vocal chords and consonants (2005)

Released in 2005 under the Tool Music label for Vale Music S.L.. Tontxu's most intimate and sincere album, produced by Nacho Béjar. "La canción del cotilla" is a duet with Víctor Manuel

1. The fate of your heart
2. Sacred
3. I believe in you
4. The song of the cotilla Collaboration of Victor Manuel
5. January
6. Amelie
7. Medicines to love
8. Sincerity as a flag
9. Dear Martha
10. To the wheel

In the Name of the Father (2008)

It comes out on November 5, 2008 under the Factoría Autor label. Recorded at the CATA studios in Madrid in April 2008. Co-produced by Txarlie Solano, Tontxu.

1. I'll love you better
2. Stop wanting you
3. It was just a kiss.
4. prudent songs of love
5. Spirit of contradiction
6. Free
7. Mummy's little monkey
8. I haven't been
9. A white rose
10. Mariner from Madrid
11. The other face of love
12. Moral double

Tontxu SOLO (2013)

Recorded in the fall of 2010 at ‘Solo sound recording’ in El Calafate, Santa Cruz, Argentina. It was released in Spain at the beginning of 2013. It contains a DVD of the recording of the album and 2 CDs with songs recorded exclusively for guitar and voice in places like the Perito Moreno Glacier, the Walichu Caves, among others.

1. But I can't.
2. It was just a kiss.
3. I'll love you better
4. In the middle
5. Heart of moving
6. If it's not with you
7. Amelie
8. Looking for you
9. With a chanting in the teeth
10. Chueca
11. Water drop
12. Everyone says I love you

1. Angel of dots
2. The other face of love
3. Madrid
4. Mariner from Madrid
5. Smoke and wind
6. To touch the sky
7. I haven't been
8. A white rose
9. From what I said last night
10. Everything for others
11. Balance zero
12. Bossalafate

Healing (2016)

Ninth album released on February 26, 2016 with different collaborations such as Carlos Chaouen, Javier Ruibal, Laura Granados, María Toledo, Road Ramos.

1. Cicatrizing
2. Dominoes
3. The ghosts of your childhood
4. Old girl
5. My machine in your belly
6. Referral
7. She rumba the mother-in-law
8. If it's not with you
9. The change of rudder from the 70s
10. Chacarrera de Leire
11. I'd kill everyone.

Tr3inta y tr3s (2019)

Tenth album released in March 2019. Songs created in the inspiring and peaceful Sierra de Gata (Cáceres, Spain).

1. Present Perfect Continuum
2. Conrazón a la Virulé
3. Simple.
4. The Zambra of Finnish
5. Multinational (with Diego Montoto)
6. The Breve
7. New House
8. Original
9. Tobby " Mary
10. Prague
11. Adolescent

Inventive (2021)

1. "In the middle" with Juanra Arnáiz de Guaraná, Asturias
2. "I got scared" with Joan Tena, Barcelona
3. "To touch the sky" with Edgar Oceransky, Mexico
4. "Moving heart" with Bebe, Extremadura
5. "Risk" with Edgar Olivero, Guantánamo, Cuba
6. Three and so many. with Gustavo Almeida, Brazil
7. "Chueca" with Arahí "The White Queen of Santa Clara, Cuba"
8. "It was just a kiss." with Leire, Amsterdam
9. "I'll love you better."version with symphonic arrangements by Edgar Olivero
10. "With a ting in the teeth" with Luis Felipe Barrio, Madrid
11. "We are colored" (Popourrí)