![]() ![]() ![]() Rodrigo y Gabriela in concert at Red Rocks Amphitheathre They played in beach-side bars and hotels for nine months where "we wanted to play a different kind of music, something we could make as our own". When a record deal for the band fell through in 1997, Sánchez and Quintero left Mexico City for the resort town of Ixtapa on the Pacific coast of Mexico. Quintero joined them in 1993 "as they couldn't get a guitarist who would please Rodrigo". ![]() In the early 1990s, Sánchez formed a heavy metal band called Tierra Ácida (Acid Land) with his brother. The two bonded over their interest in music and they soon became a couple. Yet he was different to the other metal-heads his age: he seemed very serious and didn't drink or smoke". She remembers "this 15-year-old boy there, dressed in a black. Quintero was in a drama class and at the suggestion of his brother, Rodrigo met up with her. Rodrigo and Gabriela met at the age of 15, at 'la casa de la cultura' (House of Culture) in Mexico City, where Rodrigo's brother was the director. Their parents listened to flamenco, jazz, and rock music, but they were both exposed to heavy metal, like Metallica, which proved influential to Rodrigo and Gabriela. Rodrigo Sánchez (born 1974) and Gabriela Quintero (born 1973) grew up in middle-class families in Mexico City.
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