{{Use American English|date=January 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2014}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Manuelcha Prado | image = Manuelcha_Prado_2013.jpg | alias = The ''Saqra'' of the Guitar | image_size = 250 | landscape = yes | birth_name = Manuel Prado Alarcón | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1955|6|10|df=y}} | birth_place = Puquio, Ayacucho, Peru | instrument = Vocals, guitar | genre = Folk, andean music | occupation = Guitarist, troubadour, composer, musician, singer-songwriter | years_active = 1972–present | label = Trilucero Producciones | associated_acts = <!-- see: Template:Infobox_musical_artist#Associated_acts -->Jaime Guardia, Princesita de Yungay, Manuel Silva Pichinkucha | website = {{URL|http://www.manuelcha.com/}} }} <!--- Don't mess with this line! ---> <!--- Replace Subject of my article with the subject, and the ... after is with whatever your subject is. ---> '''Manuelcha Prado''' (born 10 June 1955) is a guitarist, singer, composer, compiler and troubadour of Andean music. He is also known by many people as "The Saqra of the Guitar".<ref>{{cite book|last=Tucker|first=Joshua|title=Gentleman Troubadours and Andean Pop Stars|date=19 April 2013|publisher=University of Chicago Press|location=Chicago|pages=42–44|isbn=9780226923970|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1rBG6hJvTpEC}}</ref> <!--- Write your article below this line --->
== Albums == *1981: ''Guitarra Indígena'' *1985: ''Testimonio Ayacuchano'' *1987: ''Guitarra y Canto del Ande'' *1992: ''Sixtucha&Manuelcha Prado'' *1994: ''25 Aniversario'' *2000: ''Saqra'' *2003: ''El Solterito'' *2003: ''Poesía Quechua'' *2007: ''Madre Andina'' *2012: ''Vidallay Vida''
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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20171017145512/http://manuelcha.com/ Official website] * [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p007q73z World Routes in Peru, The music of Ayacucho] * [http://clacs.as.nyu.edu/object/clacs.events.special.102512 Event] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20150402104313/http://landofwinds.blogspot.com/2011/05/manuelcha-prado.html Perfil]
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