Koke Benavides is a rising professional guitarist and composer from Chile and has been an official .strandberg* artist since 2017.
Beginning his musical studies at the age of 13, Koke started his musical career in the year 2002 as a guitarist and composer for the progressive metal band Octopus, who released 3 albums (Bonsai in 2006, Coda in 2008, and Into The Void Of Fear in 2013). To date, Koke has released 2 solo albums (Overload in 2015 and Perspectiva in 2020) in a style of music that mixes jazz, electronic music, and progressive metal.
Furthermore, the acclaimed musician has worked as a session musician with different artists and Latin American bands in differing music styles from pop and hip hop to metal and beyond.