Name	Juanes
Height
Naionality	Colombia
Date of Birth	August 9, 1972
Place of Birth	Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
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Juanes was born in Medellín, Colombia (August 9, 1972), named as Juan Esteban Aristizábal Vásquez. He is the youngest child of Alicia Vásquez and Javier Aristizábal. His father called him "Juanes", a contraction of "Juan" and "Esteban", which he later used as an alias. In his early years, he used to stay for a season in Carolina del Príncipe, Antioquia, where he got a lot of influence through the traditional latinamerican music. At age seven, Juanes learned to play the acoustic guitar from his father and older brothers, playing traditional Latin styles such as bolero, tango, cumbia, vallenato, and guasca.[1] During Juanes's childhood, he lost several people close to him; his cousin was held for ransom and executed when the ransom was paid, a close friend was killed by gunmen, and his father died of cancer. When Juanes became a teenager, his music gained a darker sound influenced by heavy metal music, especially that of American band Metallica.