Alejandro Escovedo

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Alejandro Escovedo at a concert (2007)
Alejandro Escovedo at a concert (2007)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Real Animal
  US 122 07/12/2008 (2 weeks)
Street Songs of Love
  US 101 07/17/2010 (2 weeks)
Big station
  US 200 06/23/2012 (1 week)

Alejandro Escovedo (born January 10, 1951 in San Antonio , Texas ) is an American singer of Mexican descent.

biography

Escovedo's music career began in the mid-1970s with the punk band The Nuns . A few years later he founded Rank and File with others , who released their own album Sundown in 1982 . Shortly afterwards he left the band again and started the True Believers with his brother Javier . EMI signed them, they toured with Los Lobos , among others, and they recorded two albums. But when the label prematurely ended the contract, that meant the end of the band.

In 1992 Alejandro Escovedo's first solo album was released with the title Gravity . Parallel to his solo career, he also played in the band Buick MacKane in the 1990s . In 2003 he had a health setback because of a protracted hepatitis C . After the illness was over, he began working with producer Tony Visconti . She helped him to late honors and with his 2008 album Real Animal , for which he wrote all the songs together with Chuck Prophet , he came into the US album charts for the first time . The follow-up album Street Songs of Love also hit the charts two years later.

Alejandro Escovedo is the brother of ex- Santana drummer Pete Escovedo and thus the uncle of Sheila Escovedo, known as Sheila E.

Discography

Albums

  • Gravity (1992)
  • Thirteen Years (1994)
  • The End / Losing Your Touch (1994)
  • With These Hands (1996)
  • More Miles Than Money: Live 1994–1996 (1998)
  • Bourbonitis Blues (1999)
  • A Man Under the Influence (2001)
  • By the Hand of the Father (2002)
  • The Boxing Mirror (2006)
  • Real Animal (2008)
  • Street Songs of Love (2010)
  • Big Station (2012)
  • The Crossing (2018)

Tribute albums

  • Por Vida: A Tribute To The Songs Of Alejandro Escovedo (2004, double CD)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ US chart history
personal data
SURNAME Escovedo, Alejandro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American rock singer
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH San Antonio , Texas , USA