Guanche sigoñe (warrior chief) of Tenerife, (?-December1495), also known as Achimenchia Tinguaro. Half-brother of the mencey (king) Bencomo, Tinguaro led the Guanche forces to victory against the invading Spaniards in the First Battle of Acentejo. He fell in the Second Battle of Acentejo, a crushing defeat for the natives of the island, resulting in the conquest of the island by the Spanish. Tenerife (English also Teneriffe), a Spanish island, is the largest of the seven Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa. ... December is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... Events February 22 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the citys throne. ... Afro-Asiatic - Berber - Guanche Guanche was a language spoken on the Canary Islands up to the 16th century. ... The First Battle of Acentejo was a battle that took place on the island of Tenerife between the Guanches and an alliance of Spaniards, other Europeans, associated natives (mostly from other islands), on May 31, 1494, during the Spanish conquest of this island. ... The Second Battle of Acentejo was a battle that took place on December 25, 1495, between the invading Spanish forces and the natives of the island of Tenerife, known as Guanches. ...
Tinguaro was born in Las Palmas of Gran Canaria the eleventh of October of 1976.
He began to be interested in music since he was six years old touching the "timple", the lute and the guitar in addition to some percussion instruments.
Tinguaro began to record the first songs of this album while he was attending his studies in Production and Engineering in Television in 1998.
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