Gómez Vignes, Renato 12/22/1932

Born in Santiago de Chile in 1928, the son of Adán Gómez Francke and María Eugenia Vignes Martínes. He entered the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Chile in 1947 and graduated as an architect in 1957. He is registered in the ''Colegio de Arquitectos'' under the number 1231. Parallel to his architectural studies, he began studying singing at the National Conservatory of Music at the University of Chile in 1947, which he completed by 1952. Between 1967 and 1968, he returned to the conservatory to study opera.
At the same time, in 1959, he began his professional career as an architect and singer in the city of Concepción: architect in the municipal administration and lyric singer in the city's municipal theater.
He married Dora Ceruti Danús, a social worker, in 1959 and is the father of Luis Felipe, Claudia and Marcela, all three of whom are successful professionals.
Back in Santiago, he founded his own architecture firm and began to participate in the city theater's seasons as a bass singer.
In 1967, he joined the ''Corporación de la Vivienda'' as an architect, where he remained until 1976, when he was dismissed due to downsizing. At the same time, he continued to take part in several lyrical seasons.

In 1977 he went to Venezuela, where he worked as a teacher of theory and solfège as well as a singing teacher at the "Sebastián Echeverría Lozano" music school in Valencia. He studied choral conducting and founded and directed several children's choirs and the adult group "Las voces negras", for which he composed his hymn "Las voces negras".
He has performed in singing concerts in various cities in Venezuela accompanied by the Venezuelan guitarist and cuatro teacher Rafael Ramos. It was in this country that he composed the epic cantata "Venezuela Heroica" (unpublished), based on texts by the Venezuelan historian Eduardo Blanco.
After thirteen years in Venezuela, he returned to Santiago in 1990, where he began giving singing lessons at the Claudio Arrau Foundation and in the Chilean Chamber Choir under the direction of Mario Baeza.
He is currently dedicated to cultural research and is developing various projects that have culminated in the websites:
http://pintores.vtrbandaancha.net (dedicated to Impressionist painters), which is to be published, and
https://compositoresdelbarroco.com