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Born 1983 in Santiago, Chile.
He studied music composition at Universidad Católica de Chile (2002-2005).
His work ranges from instrumental music to visual poetry.
As a songwriter he is the leader of the rock’n’dino band Cuchufleta.
Some of his highlights are a piano concert at Teatro Municipal de Santiago, piano and sound poetry performances at The Klinker in London and at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York, and an electronic piece for Tsonami Festival in Valparaíso.
He has been included in several poetry anthologies in Chile and in 2001 his visual poetry book ”Contemplación” was released by Libros de la Elipse.
“Gregorio pasó de la música vía Internet- a las palabras y ahora último incluso a las letras y de vuelta a las palabras en textos más convencionales y buenos hasta el punto de la envidia personal e instranferible”
Claudio Bertoni
“A fabulous electronic musician and Rimbaud look-alike, Gregorio Fonten, is singing his hallucinatory, corrosive ballad “Este Es” on the piano.”
Forrest Gander - A sentimental Education in Chile
"Gregorio, who is very well known in his country, is a leading member of
Chile's most prominent experimental poetry and performance group, Foro de
Escritores . (...) Gregorio is an accomplished pianist and sings and
chants his poems. The effect is very strange and beautiful..."
kent Johnson
"Fontén parece haber encontrado un sonido tan propio como local. La habitual originalidad en la instrumentación suena esta vez más chilena que el mismo Transantiago. (...) nuestra famosa identidad nacional parece no ser otra cosa que ACTITUD."
-Cristián Valdivia - sobre disco "Cuchufleta"
