User:Gipsyska/Gino Alache

Gino Alache (March 22, 1973) is a Public Relations Specialist, Music Journalist, publicist and Radio personality. He is best known as one of the specialists with in-depth knowledge of hard rock and heavy metal music. His interviews have broadcasted in different languages in the world.

Biography
Gino Alache was born in Lima, Peru. He grew up in La Molina district and attended a Catholic school on Marianist education. In his adolescence, he started to feel a deep admiration for bands as Manowar, Metallica, Judas Priest, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. Since then, he began to write music articles finding what it would be his passion.

The beginning
During his first years of adolescence, he listened a lot the American Heavy metal radio programming such as KNAC 105.05, Pure Rock and Pirate Radio, he also followed the television program Headbangers Ball of MTV, and then in 1994, the Latin American version of MTV launched its Latin edition in Spanish, under the name of Headbangers. It was the perfect opportunity for him to send his first articles by postal mail from Peru. Those articles were always about the Latin American heavy metal and hard rock scene, and, fortunately, they had an excellent acceptation in the following programs up to 1997 when it came to an end. In an interview on January 17th, 2006 for the Portuguese webpage SounD(/)ZonE, he said: “I think that all started when I was in elementary school, a classmate brought a long duration of Iron Maiden – The Number Of The Beast, it was 1982, since then, I become passionate about all this.”

Career
By January 2002 and with an original communication system called the Internet, he began the creation of a website and later an online radio station called Rockum. His first steps in the web were the Editor-in-chief and Articles Writer of anglophone hard rock and heavy metal. By 2002, he began to write about record works that just launched in Europe and United States, and then the ones from Latin America and Asia.

In 2004, Rockum made its debut with its first interviews with international artists, with two programs such as “World Premiere” and “Breaking The Rock” in a 24-hour frequency by streaming.

By 2006, he started to do live International coverage, beginning a new period, he travelled to countries such as Argentina and Chile to broadcast the events of the Latin American scene by Rockum to the world.

In summer 2008, he began to work as a Public Relations, specialized in training. He was a Press Agent in the most important international shows in Peru. He worked with artist as Aerosmith, Metallica, Stryper, Cerati, Skid Row, The Cranberries, José Luis Perales, Rotting Christ, Yellowcard, among others. In February 2010, Terra Networks hired him as an Editor-in-Chief of a new blog called Zona de Metal.

In March 2010, the Phantom Magazine invited him to be part of its staff writer, with a monthly column called “Sólido como el Metal”

In April 2010, he did his first international journalistic interview for the most important newspaper of Peru, for El Comercio

In May 2012, he got a Postgraduate Degree in Public Relations and Corporate Communication by the San Martin de Porres University.

In June 2012 by the Radio Clasicas Actuales.com, he released his first radio program, apart from Rockum, called Rockum Classics with just 70’s rock music.

By September 2013, as a General Producer and Creative Director, he was in charge of the intellectual creativity and production of the first heavy metal song of the famous Peruvian Singer of Creole and Afro Peruvian music Eva Ayllon with the band of hard rock Temptation Xplodes, the song was called “Desaparecer.”

In the same year, the Archbishop of Lima hired him as a Producer and Press Director to create the first massive “March for Life” by producing and directing three testimonial video clips and a song with a video clip where the Peruvian artist Sandra Muente sings “Vengo a cuidar de ti.” (“I come to take care of you”)

In September 2014, he released his new video clip with the band Kikasban called Seis (This music comes from the soul), and he tried to mix the different fusions that our cultures, ethnics, and traditions have.

Support to National Peruvian Rock
In April 2010, in a new press interview made by the Peruvian newspaper El Chino, he declared: “The rock in Peru is not only (his commercial stars) Pedro Suárez Vertiz and Libido, be heavy is a matter of survival, we ask the Peruvian State for support to the real rock scene in Peru”. The Chino newspaper qualified his work as a “quixotic” example that a mean doesn’t need to be used to “hang on to boom” to have success. 

Personal Life
On September 20th, 2014, he married the Constitutional Lawyer Patricia Ballenas.

Present
Nowadays, he lives with his wife he continues editing and broadcasting Rockum since 2002, Gino produces new artists, and he is a Business Consultant in matters of press and corporate reputation. He is writing an autobiographical book about his experiences in the world of rock, and he will launch it to the market by the middle of 2018.