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Marco Antonio Grovas Yacolca (born November 16, 1993) is a Peruvian violin player, singer and composer. Best known for his violin covers uploaded at YouTube. Some of his famous covers are: Poker Face, Live and Let Die, LoveGame, So What and Here We Go Again. He has played in many events like weddings, birthdays, festivals, inaugurations, music competitions and school activies. An album is mentioned to release with the title of "Covered" and it will contain modern music played on his electric violin. It's also said that his music distributor could be "TuneCore" and that his album will be available to buy at iTunes and Amazon.com

Biography
Was born in Ilo (Moquegua), it's the second child of his family, he has an eldest brother. He studied at "I.E.P San Luis" school in Ilo. In his early childhood he was always been interested in music and singing. When Marco was younger he always wanted to play the violin and he was amazed with it's sound. At the age of 9 he took piano lessons for one year but he left it because he realized that the piano "wasn't for him". Then he was curious for the violin again and he convinced his dad to buy an acoustic violin. After some arguments he finally got his violin and learned the basic knowledge from the internet. His parents decided to send him to a music conservatory and he went to "Luis Duncker Lavalle (High School Of Public Music)" in Arequipa. Marco spent one week there and then he got another week of lessons from the first violin of the Arequipa's Symphony Orchestra. After it, Marco started to learn and play by himself so he considers a kind of self-taught violinist. He got a Yamaha SV-120 silent/electric violin for his 14th birthday. Marco in an interview said "I'm inspired by Vanessa Mae, eScala and bond. Those musicians opened my eyes to get myself into the world of music."

Discography
Right now Marco hasn't made any official music contract with any record label but an album is said to be released soon between November 2012 and February 2013 with the name of "Covered" that may include 10 tracks (This tracklist isn't confirmed so most of the songs can change totally)

YouTube Channel
Marco Grovas started uploading his covers on June 24,2009 with his Poker Face electric violin cover, getting more than 120000 views is one of the best Poker Face covers on all YouTube played with a violin. You can listen and comment to his covers at his Official YouTube Channel.