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Charlie Parra del Riego (born March 5, 1985 in Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian guitarist and composer. He is also known as Charlie Parra.
Charlie was thirteen years old when he started to learn his first instrument, which was a Peruvian Cajón. Spending a lot of his childhood playing games and not being a great student, his parents were told by a school therapist that he ought to learn an instrument in order to focus his energy on something. This lead to Charlie picking up the guitar.
Charlie has been influenced by Slash, Eddie Van Halen, Randy Rhoads, Marty Friedman, Kirk Hammett, Robbin Crosby, Dino Cazares, Dimebag Darrell, Johnny Ramone, Gonzalo Farfán and Joaquín Mariátegui.
In the year 2010 Charlie starts his solo career uploading a first series of videos in his YouTube channel, including a heavy metal version of Peru’s National Anthem, the first version of this song in heavy metal style. This version was covered in TV, radio and local newspapers.
In January 2011 he released his first solo album "Procrastinación/Procrastination", together with another series of YouTube videos. These videos got different YouTube awards, including “Most viewed” and to this day is the most subscribed musician from his country. By this time his videos got more than 30 million visits and his channel subscribers passed the 200,000. After the release the disc was sold out in a few weeks due to the high international demand. His singles "Speed F*cks" and "Punk vs Metal" have been covered by several guitar players around the world. In 2011, Charlie wrote music for the UK gaming commentator TotalBiscuit, Call of Duty figure Sandy Ravage and Swiss game commentator Diablox9.
After the breakup of Difonía, Charlie continued on with Oliver and Jeremy Castillo and performed some shows playing tracks from the album "Procrastination / Procrastination".
Charlie has continued his solo career even after joining Kobra and the Lotus. His latest album is a collaboration with Oliver and Jeremy Castillo and is called "Organic I". It was released on November 17, 2013.
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