María Gabriela Epumer

María Gabriela Epumer (1 August 1963 – 30 June 2003) was an Argentine pop rock vocalist and guitarist. Epumer was born on 1 August 1963 in Villa Devoto, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and was of Mapuche descent. Her great-grandfather, Epugner, was a lonko who was captured by General Eduardo Racedo [es] during the Conquest of the Desert and held captive on Martín García Island, where he died four years later in 1884. Her parents were Juan Carlos Epumer and Dora Carballo and her grandfather Juan Epumer was the guitarist for Argentine singer Agustín Magaldi. Aged ten, she began studying guitar with Jorge Stirikas, professor at the Teatro Colón.