{{short description|Ecuadorian singer-songwriter and politician (born 1977)}} {{Family name hatnote|Quishpe|Apugllón|lang=Spanish}} {{Infobox person | name = Delfín Quishpe | image = Delfín Quishpe.JPG | caption = Delfín Quishpe in Guayaquil (2012) | module = {{Infobox officeholder | embed = yes | office = Mayor of Guamote | term_start = 15 May 2019 | term_end = 1 February 2023 | predecessor = Luis Chuquimarca | successor = Miguel Marcatoma | party = Pachakutik | birth_name = Delfín Quishpe Apugllón | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1977|12|4|df=y}} | birth_place = San Antonio, Guamote, Ecuador }} | module2 = {{Infobox person | embed = yes | criminal_charges = Influence peddling and corruption | criminal_penalty = 5 years' imprisonment | criminal_status = Imprisoned }} | module3 = {{Infobox musical artist | embed = yes | instrument = Vocals | genre = Andean music, Technocumbia | alias = Delfín Hasta el Fin | website = {{URL|http://www.quishpe.com/}} }} }}
'''Delfín Quishpe Apugllón''' (born 4 December 1977), artistically known as '''Delfin Hasta el Fin''' (lit: ''Dolphin until the end'') is an Ecuadorian singer-songwriter, celebrity, and politician, who gained famed performing a style he calls "Andean techno-folklore".<ref name="Clinic">{{cite web|title=Leo Marcazzolo, "Sería una sorpresa cantar en Viña"|author=The Clinic No. 197|date=2007-01-04|url=http://www.lesterfibla.com/documentos/delfin.doc}}</ref> His popularity largely came from the comical nature of his music. Quishpe's song "Torres Gemelas" (''Twin Towers'') remains the song that has received most attention.<ref>David Sasaki, {{cite web|url=http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/03/07/ecuador-chile-kitsch-goes-for-cash-on-youtube/|title=Ecuador, Chile: Kitsch Goes for Cash on YouTube|publisher=Global Voices|date=2007-03-07}}</ref> He was the mayor of his hometown, Guamote, from May 2019 to February 2023. In March 2021, he was arrested and later sentenced by the Ecuadorian Attorney General's Office, to 5 years in prison for influence peddling and corruption.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-12-01|title=El cantante Delfín Quishpe detenido por tráfico de influencias|url=https://www.24-horas.mx/2021/12/01/el-cantante-delfin-quishpe-detenido-por-trafico-de-influencias/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-12-16|website=24 Horas|language=es|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211201182901/https://www.24-horas.mx/2021/12/01/el-cantante-delfin-quishpe-detenido-por-trafico-de-influencias/ |archive-date=2021-12-01 }}</ref>
==Biography== Delfín Quishpe was born in a small town named San Antonio in Guamote, Ecuador,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Redacción Telemix|date=2016-09-23|title=Delfín, el provocador que navega a contracorriente|url=https://www2.eltelegrafo.com.ec/noticias/40/22/delfin-el-provocador-que-navega-a-contracorriente|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403203045/https://www.eltelegrafo.com.ec/noticias/40/22/delfin-el-provocador-que-navega-a-contracorriente|archive-date=2019-04-03|website=El Telégrafo|language=es}}</ref> as the son of the merchant Anselmo Quishpe and Mercedes Apugllón.<ref name=":0" /> He is of indigenous Kichwa descent.
== Career == In 2003, he recorded his second album, "El Gallito". It contained songs such as: "El Gallito Bandido", "El Delfincito", "Cuando Me Vaya", and "Cuaya Huay".<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.elcomercio.com/tendencias/mensajes-delfin-quishpe-despedida-hijo.html|title= Los mensajes con los que Delfín Quishpe despidió a su hijo|date= October 22, 2018|work= El Comercio}}</ref> A year later he created his first video, the aforementioned that was posted on Internet.{{Citation needed|date=March 2008}}thumb|Delfín Quishpe in 2012 In 2006, "Torres Gemelas" (Twin Towers) was released. While the song is tragic in nature, the subject matter being Delfin losing a loved one in the terrorist attack of 9/11, the whimsical and kitschy nature of the song as well as the poor acting in the music video has made this song an internet meme.<ref name="Clinic" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Sandoval|first=Carla|date=2018-10-19|title=Falleció un hijo del cantante ecuatoriano Delfín Quishpe|url=https://www.elcomercio.com/tendencias/entretenimiento/muerte-hijo-cantante-delfin-quishpe.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-12-09|website=El Comercio|language=es-EC|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211209211757/https://www.elcomercio.com/tendencias/entretenimiento/muerte-hijo-cantante-delfin-quishpe.html |archive-date=2021-12-09 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.revistalideres.ec/2009-07-13/RR-HH/Noticia-Principal/LD090713P28TALENTOS.aspx |title=Revista Lideres.ec |accessdate=2010-04-22 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090718224439/http://revistalideres.ec/2009-07-13/RR-HH/Noticia-Principal/LD090713P28TALENTOS.aspx |archivedate=2009-07-18 }} Revista Lideres, retrieved 2010-03-22</ref><ref name="Universo">Xavier A. Flores Aguirre, [https://archive.today/20130102131528/http://www.eluniverso.com/2007/03/24/0001/21/88C4482419DB4BDAB4AE07A106D6827E.aspx El símbolo Delfín], El Universo, 2007-03-24.</ref>
In April 2010 Defín Quishpe released the song "En tus Tierras Bailaré", featuring the two Peruvian "YouTube stars" Wendy Sulca and Tigresa del Oriente. The song received attention in Latin American media and rapidly got more than one million hits in a few weeks.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100429181829/http://www.eltiempo.com.ec/noticias-cuenca/39702-contina-a-el-a-xito-de-delfa-n-quishpe/ Diario El Tiempo, Ecuador]</ref> The song was later called a "Youtube We are the World" by Calle 13 singer Residente.<ref>[http://elcomercio.pe/noticia/465296/vocalista-calle-13-destaco-twitter-video-tigresa-oriente Diario El comercio, Peru]</ref>
== Personal life == He has a wife, Rosario Urquiza Coro, and two children: Luis Rolando (2002–2018)<ref name=":1" /> and Alex Delfín (born 2004).<ref name=":0" />
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20100429235044/http://www.delfinecuador.com/ Official Website] (Spanish)
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Quishpe, Delfin}} Category:1977 births Category:Living people Category:People from Guamote Canton Category:Ecuadorian people of Quechua descent Category:21st-century Ecuadorian male singers Category:Andean music Category:Internet memes