Alex Cuba

Alex Cuba (Alexis Puentes) is a vocalist/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist given birth to in Artemisa, Cuba in 1974. The boy of the music instructor, Cuba was raised encircled by music and started performing from an extremely early age group. After marrying a Canadian female, Cuba shifted to Vancouver in 1999, and it had been there that his music started to move from the greater traditional areas of the Cuban audio right into a pop, funk, and jazz-fusion path. Alex and his sibling Adonis shaped the Alex Cuba Music group quickly thereafter, but shortly came to contact themselves the Puentes Brothers, and released the record Morumba Cubana in 2000. The record continued to earn the brothers a 2001 Juno Award nomination. In 2003 the brothers made a decision to put the task on hiatus to focus on single tasks. Alex released his debut, Humo de Tabaco, in 2005. The record was a crucial success and finally gained a Juno Prize for Best Globe Music Record in 2006, a feat Cuba repeated along with his sophomore record, Agua del Pozo, released in 2007. Alex Cuba (2009) included his initial song in British and attracted worldwide recognition, gaining Cuba a Latin Grammy for Greatest New Artist. For this period he also begun to make a name for himself being a songwriter for various other artists, especially Nelly Furtado — Cuba co-wrote fifty percent the music on Furtado’s initial Spanish record, Mi Program (2009), like the strike “Manos al Aire.” His single career continuing with Ruido en un Sistema (2012) and Healer (2015), the last mentioned of which discovered Cuba collaborating with various other Canadian songwriters, such as for example Ron Sexsmith and David Myles. In 2017 he came back with Lo Único Constante, an record partially inspired with the Cuban filin genre.