Los Tres (, ) is a Chilean rock band, formed in 1987 in Concepción by Álvaro Henríquez, Roberto "Titae" Lindl, Francisco Molina and Ángel Parra Jr. They are one of the most influential rock en español bands.
History
220px|thumb|right|[[Ángel Parra Jr. in 2010]]
The origins of the band go back to the Concepción of 1982, when three friends from the Charles de Gaulle school, Álvaro Henríquez Petinelli, Roberto Titae Lindl Romero, and Francisco Molina Cornejo, decided to form the band Dick Stones. Together with Gilles Marie, Rodolfo Lindl and Fernando Saavedra, they appeared in bars, universities and local events to sing songs by Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and Gene Vincent. Later, Henriquez and Titae would join drummer Andrés Valdovinos to form the band Escalimetros.
In 1984, Henríquez and Lindl, together with guitarist Jorge Yogui Alvarado (future leader of the Chilean band Emociones Clandestinas), changed the name of their band to Los Ilegales.
However, Roberto Lindl joined the Youth Symphony Orchestra for a time as a double bass player, and Álvaro Henríquez strengthened ties with theatrical circles and one of his first commissions was to musicalize the work Y Warhol (1988). The definitive impulse for the trio came with the incorporation of Ángel Parra, a guitarist who had until then had a long instrumental preparation and several studies in Paris and California. The price received by Chilean rock was very low and in addition to that, the first self-titled album by Los Tres published at the Le Trianon restaurant on September 4, 1991, took a long time to be taken into account by the national media. On September 14 of that same year, Los Tres became the first Chilean group to be invited to the unplugged party that for a few years, had been animating the MTV-Latino video music chain. The band traveled to Miami and recorded their participation with the collaboration of Cuti Aste and guitarist Antonio Restucci, combining in it a repertoire of greatest hits along with a new song Traje desastre and three tribute titles to the Chilean singer-songwriter Roberto Parra, who died a few months prior to that event. The album corresponding to the show, Los Tres unplugged (1996) became a sales phenomenon that defied any marketing theory that, until then, was handled in the Chilean music industry. Since in that same year it won 110,000 copies, much more than "Neither by reason, nor by force" by Los Prisioneros.