Carlos Núñez (Vigo, 1971) is a musician from Galicia who plays the gaita, a Galician bagpipe. He has become an integral part of the Galician Celtic music, and has collaborated with Ry Cooder, Sinéad O'Connor, The Chieftains, Altan and La Vieja Trova Santiaguera. His most renowned album was 1996's A Irmandade Das Estrelas, which sold an unprecedented 100,000 copies, and included collaborations with Nightnoise, Luz Casal, Tino di Geraldo, Tríona Ní Domhnaill and Mícheál Ó Domhnaill, Kepa Junkera, Ry Cooder, The Chieftains, and Dulce Pontes. He has since moved on to including elements of Berber music and flamenco, as well as more pronounced Celtic, especially Breton, influences. He was a key collaborator in Tamiya Terashima's soundtrack of Gedo Senki (Tales of Earthsea), released in July 2006. He also released an additional album, titled "Melodies from Gedo Senki", which included new Gedo Senki OST tracks along with new tunes by Carlos himself. Nuñez was born in 1971 in Vigo and began...This information was automatically generated from Freebase article Carlos Nunez. You should replace/update it...