Quique Villanueva
Enrique Víctor Miguel Sappia Villanueva, known professionally as Quique
Villanueva, was an Argentine singer born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on
September 29, 1942, and deceased there on November 4, 1997. After receiving a
guitar from his grandmother in his childhood, he embarked on a music career,
rising to national fame in the late 1960s as the lead vocalist of the band Los
Náufragos, which was originally named Los Vikings. Produced by Francis Smith,
the group popularized hits such as “De boliche en boliche” and “Zapatos rotos”,
before Villanueva departed in 1972 to launch a sol...
