Edesio alejandro biography sample

Cuban composer of electronic music (born )

Edesio Alejandro Rodríguez Salva (born March 28, ) is a Cuban composer of electronic music. He has composed music for theatre plays, TV, and movies; as well as several concert compositions. Many of them experimental, using synthesizers and mixing together actors, dancers, and musicians in unusual line-ups.^[1]

His rock operaViolente, of , is considered the first rock opera in Latin America (1).

His band, active since , has an eclectic and innovative sound, using Cuban styles such as rumba and conga in fusion with foreign genres such as rap, funk, soul, and hip-hop.^[2]

Edesio Alejandro has played in South America, Canada, and Europe. His albums Orisha Dreams and Black Angel were among the first of World Music in Europe in Blen Blen, from the CD Black Angel, was first place for several weeks in the MTV Europe Dance Floor Charts.^[2]

In was nominated to Latin Grammy and in to Amer