José Miguel Piñera Echenique more often known as Negro Piñera, (October 15, 1954 in Santiago

Santiago, Chile

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) is a Chile

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an celebrity

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, night club owner and amateur

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 musician

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. He is the brother of the President of Chile

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 Sebastián Piñera

Sebastián Piñera

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 and of the economist José Piñera

José Piñera

José Piñera is the architect of Chile's private pension system based on personal retirement accounts. Piñera has been called "the world's foremost advocate of privatizing public pension systems" as well as "the Pension Reform Pied Piper"...

, and is married to the Argentinean model Belén Hidalgo. Negro Piñera is of Asturian

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 and Basque

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 descent.

Miguel Piñera is the fifth son of José Piñera Carvallo and Magdalena Echenique Rozas. His siblings are Guadalupe, José, Sebastián, Pablo, and María Teresa "Magdalena" (Pichita).

He studied at The Divine Word School (Colegio del Verbo Divino

Colegio del Verbo Divino

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) and Saint George. During his adolescence, he lived in Belgium through his father's role as the Chilean ambassador to Belgium and the United Nations. His father's profession would also later take him to live in New York City

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At the age of fifteen, he received his first electrical guitar and would develop his musical talent. He participated in South America's largest music festival, Festival de Viña del Mar, in 1983.

He is a well known celebrity in the Chilean show business and nightclub industries.