Jorge Drexler

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Biography

Uruguayan musician and actor

  • Aliases
  • Jorge Abner Drexler Prada
  • Primary profession
  • Composer·soundtrack·actor
  • Country
  • Uruguay
  • Nationality
  • Uruguayan
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 21 September 1964
  • Place of birth
  • Montevideo
  • Spouses
  • Leonor Watling
  • Education
  • University of the Republic
  • Knows language
  • Spanish language

Music

Lyrics

Movies

Awards

Trivia

His song "Al otro lado del Rio" is the first Academy award-winner that is in the Spanish language.

He is a Doctor in Medicine.

In his acceptance-speech at the Academy Awards where he got the Oscar for his song "Al Otro Lado Del Rio", he didnt say anything but sang a couple of lines a Capella.

Leonor Watlings companion. In January 2009 they welcomed they first child, a baby boy named Luca.

Lives in Spain.

Sang alongside his girlfriend Leonor Watling more than once.

Became famous in Argentina after a soup TV commercial that used a song of his.

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