ADALBERTO ALVÁREz Y SU SON
Composer, musical arranger and director, Adalberto Alvarez is undoubtedly the Cuban sooner by excellence. Possessor of a very personal and distinctive harmonic and melodic style, “El Caballero del Son” title has been won by the anthology innovations and contributions that he made to the traditional and contemporary genre, it is nowadays, the musical author more versioning, on the Latin ambit in the past 40 years.
Within the main contributions made by Adalberto Alvarez is found to have given to the “Son” the contemporary air that he needed, thereby achieving reinsert from Cuba, in the atmosphere and sonority of the salsa to the universal.
In 1978 he founded”Son 14″ orchestra which became a milestone among the existing orchestras inCuban music.In this group he could show a new different musical concept, then without renouncing to the roots of traditional son he renewed it through texts, orchestrations and contemporary harmonies. After achieving an extended popularity in “Son 14″, he decided to form a new orchestra with the name “Adalberto Alvarez y su Son”, making his first appearance on February 25, 1984. At this new phase he takes up the challenge of making new rhythmic changes.
From then until now, his work was characterized precisely by respecting the cadence necessary and vital, of the dancer; status within their work has not only been recognized by dancers of his country, but for those other countries.