Daniel Puente Encina (Santiago de Chile, 1965) is a Chilean
singer-songwriter, guitarist, film composer, producer and actor known
for his bands such as the anti-fascist Pinochet Boys from Santiago de
Chile, Niños Con Bombas from Hamburg and Polvorosa from Barcelona,
where he currently lives.Daniel Puente Encina began teaching himself
music at the age of four. On his twelfth birthday, he father gave him
a guitar and an hour's lesson. As an adolescent, he studied Musicology
and Sociology at the University of Chile.In his native Chile, he is
better known as "Daniel Puente" o "Dani Puente", founder, lead singer
and bass player of the anti-fascist new wave/post-punk group Pinochet
Boys formed with a few friends in the Santiago of the mid-1980s, one
of the most repressive periods of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. His
first group, it formed part of the Chilean revolution, as noted in a
number of books, documentaries and the fourth episode of Chilean drama
TV series Los 80 by Canal 13. In 1984, Carlos Fonseca, a friend of the
group and presenter of the programme Fusión contemporánea on
Santiago's Radio Beethoven station, offered them a contract with the
record company Fusión, owned by his father Mario Fonseca, on the
condition that they changed its provocative name â€"something the
group refused to do. The contract was later offered to group Los
Prisioneros. Los Pinochet Boys' clandestine concerts were routinely
broken up by the police shortly after they began, soon sparking to a
youth movement in the Chilean capital. Its four members were harassed,
threatened and persecuted for their irreverent attitude and wild
performances, and often arrested for having dyed hair. In 1987, after
only three years together, Los Pinochet Boys were unofficially forced
by the military regime to leave the country. After almost two years of
organising their own concerts and touring with, amongst others, the
Inocentes and Plebe Rude in Brazil and Todos Tus Muertos in Argentina,
the group returned to Chile to play an active role in the No campaign
for the 1988 Chilean national plebiscite, which put an end to
Pinochet's regime. Their sole musical legacy consisted of two cassette
recordings: "Botellas contra el pavimento"/"En mi tiempo libre" and
"La música del general"/"Esto es Pinochet Boys", which have been
copied on numerous occasions over the past decades. In 2012, record
company Hueso Records from New York remastered both to produce a
500-copy limited edition 7-inch record entitled Pinochet Boys. Daniel Puente Encina Biography, Weight & Height, Age, Nationality & Ethnicity
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