Alfredo de la Fé

Alfredo de la Fé (born February 6, 1954 in Havana , Cuba ) is a New York City violin player of Cuban descent. Due to his artistic work, the violin has been included in many salsa and Latin jazz groups. Alfredo de la Fé appeared as a solo violin player in major salsa orchestras and was seen live on over 30 tours worldwide. In the course of his career he played with Eddie Palmieri , Tito Puente , Celia Cruz , José Alberto "El Canario", Cheo Feliciano , The Fania All-Stars and Santana . His second album in 1979 received a Grammy nomination for "Best Latin album".

Career

Alfredo de la Fé's father was an opera tenor in Havana. In 1962 Alfredo de la Fé began studying the violin at the Amadeo Roldán Conservatory in Havana. He later made further musical training in Warsaw , Poland . With the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra he performed Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky compositions at New York's Carnegie Hall . In 1972 he changed his style from classical music to salsa and became a band member in Eddie Palmieri's Orchestra. He then moved to San Francisco and had a short-term engagement with Carlos Santana . In 1980 de la Fé signed a recording deal with Sars All Stars and produced 32 albums with this label. In 1981 he became musical director of Tito Puente's Latin Percussion Jazz Ensemble. In 1982 he started a solo career and moved to Colombia , where he produced the albums "Made in Colombia", "Dancing in the Tropics" and "Alfredo De La Fé Vallenato". In 1989 Alfredo de la Fé signed with Discos Fuente, a renowned Colombian record company, until he switched to Sony Music in 1997.

Discography (selection)

• Salsa passion
• Caribe Atomico (1989)
• Triunfo (1992)
• Latitudes (2000)
• Hard Salsa Coast to Coast (2002)
• La Llave de Oro (2006)

Web links

• Portrait of Alfredo de la Fé on American Salsa
• Portrait of Alfredo de la Fé at Disco Fuentes ( Memento from February 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ http://www.americasalsa.com/biografias/alfredodelafe.html