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Biography

       Born in Querétaro; Alberto Solís is an independent mexican artist on the pursuit of a new sound from his country. Inspired by a family tradition, music and art have been an intrinsic part of his creative path since very young.     

 

            Studied flamenco guitar and percussion techniques since the age of 16 under the direction of cuban guitarist and composer Josué Tacoronte, whom which he shared the stage along Mexico, the Caribean and Europe; inicially as part of the Spanish Ballet Proart. Along his musical path he discovers and explores his voice as his main expression media. In 2010 he debuted as a singer over national and international stages. In 2012 he participates on the project "Brouwer Flamenco", conceived by the guitarrist Josué Tacoronte and produced by legend cuban composer Leo Brouwer, presented on the IV Chamber Music Festival Leo Brouwer in Havana, Cuba. Later on presented on the Dominican Republic, Switzerland, Austria and México where he shared the stage along with musicians like Niurka González, Rui Adrián Lopez Nussa and Juan Falú. In 2014 he starts a new season in San Miguel de Allende with the guitarrist Gil Gutiérrez and the cuban jazz pianist Gabriel Hernández, in a fusion jazz project; initiating his exploration along diferent genres, maily within latinamerican music and sharing the stage with musicians like Doc Severinsen, Lorenzo Toppano, Adriana Valdés and Camille García.

 

       In the summer of 2014 he debutes in the USA with a new project at the Belleayre Jazz Festival in New York, along with the jazz guitarrist Pablo Reyes and the bassist Bam Ban Rodríguez.

 

       Licenced in Industrial Design, Solís has found in music a way to communicate and share his deepest emotions, reaching a unique emotional conection with a national and international audience.

 

       He is currently planning his first album production.

 

   

   Take Spain’s great gypsy cantaor Diego “El Cigala”, with his heart’s cry of truth in every word, of every line. Cross him with Mexico’s tenor Ramon Vargas for a radiant top range.  Incarnate their offspring in the body of a savvy man-child and you get this product of Mexico, -Alberto of the sun.

 

      The songs he sings span generations of musical tradition in his country, honoring popular artists of the past century. Alberto suffers, breathes their intimacies in a smoky husk, soaring in agony and ecstasy to a solar top that bleeds a God given natural beauty. -- Alberto’s songs rise, cry, and breathe the soul of his country to a border of free infinity.   

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- Kitty Montgomery- New York 2014.

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