Guitarricadelafuente

Álvaro Lafuente Calvo (born 27 August 1997), better known by his stage name Guitarricadelafuente, is a Spanish singer-songwriter, guitarist and musician based in Zaragoza. Lafuente started posting covers on different social media platforms like Instagram in 2017 while being unsigned. Those covers attracted a modest number of people at first thanks to their mix of indie folk, rumba, and flamenco music. In April 2018 he released his first original song titled "El Conticinio" which he recorded at home with a PlayStation microphone. Lafuente continued posting original songs and started a little tour through selected cities in Spain. In June 2019 he collaborated with Operación Triunfo contestant and fellow friend Natalia Lacunza on her debut single "Nana Triste" which peaked at number 4 on the PROMUSICAE chart. After the single's critical and commercial success, Lafuente continued releasing singles independently. Biography Guitarricadelafuente was born Álvaro Lafuente Calvo in August 1997 in Benicàssim, a small tourist-orientated village in the coast of the province of Castellón. During his teenage years he spent a lot of time in Las Cuevas de Cañart, a 70-inhabitant rural town in the hills of the Sierra de Albarracín, where his grandmother lives. He received his first acoustic guitar on his fifteenth birthday and taught himself how to play it. In 2017 he started posting covers of different Spanish-language songs on his respective social media profiles. That same year he started composing original songs with "El Conticinio" being the first one to be released on streaming platforms. He was contacted by the team of television talent competition La Voz through his Instagram messages to audition for the contest although he was never selected after accepting the opportunity. He also tried to participate in series nine of talent show Operación Triunfo which came back to television after a 6-year hiatus. The singer is now based in Barcelona. He is openly gay. Career