Los Tres
A cornerstone of Chilean rock. Pancho Molina is part of its original line-up as drummer and founding member. The line-up reunited in 2023 and released XCLNT in 2026, recorded at Abbey Road.
Pancho Molina
More than four decades behind a drum kit, between the rock of Concepción and jazz.
Chilean drummer, composer and music producer. Founding member of Los Tres, bandleader of Los Titulares and the Pancho Molina Trio. He took the Professional Music Program at Berklee College of Music. He runs Estudio La Madre in Concepción and has played with Joe Lovano, George Garzone, Dave Liebman and Leo Genovese.
Los Tres
Founding member
Since 1998
Releasing his own music
12 years in the United States
Boston and New York
1980s
The beginnings
What he's doing now
Three things running at once, which is how he has always worked.
Pancho Molina Trio
A project of original music bringing together contemporary jazz, improvisation, rock and popular music, with Rodrigo Álvarez on bass and Felipe Duhart on guitar.
Jodelase
A hip hop collective from Concepción led by rapper José «Jodelase» Díaz. Molina joined on drums and produced the EP No como otros.
Estudio La Madre
Recording and music production studio run by Pancho Molina in Concepción, where he develops his own projects and productions for other artists.
After more than two decades he rejoined the original line-up of Los Tres, while keeping his own body of work going from Concepción.
Francisco Molina Cornejo was born in Concepción on 25 May 1969. Everyone calls him Pancho. He started playing drums as a teenager listening to Roy Haynes, Elvin Jones and Art Blakey — three drummers still audible in everything he plays.