Juan Francisco Ordóñez

Juan Francisco Ordóñez (4 October 1961) is a guitarist from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He is considered an innovator of bachata guitar language, through a fusion of blues, rock and jazz with his particular style. . Ordóñez graduated high school from Colegio Dominicano De la Salle and later earned a degree in Economics from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo. He began his guitar studies with teacher Blas Carrasco and later continued on his own. He learned formal music composition from Sonia de Piña, at the Dominican National Conservatory. From 1976-1977, he took part in the folk group Convite, a very important force in the rescue and transformation of Dominican folklore in the seventies. In the early eighties, he formed...