ROBERTO FONSECA
Genres: Post Bop, Afro-Cuban Jazz, World Fusion, Third Stream, Latin Rock, Soul, Latin Jazz • Cuba

Roberto Alain Fonseca Cortés, 29 March 1975, Havana, Cuba. Taking to music from an early age, Fonseca first emulated his percussionist father by playing drums before turning to the piano. The household was very musical, his mother being a professional singer and two brothers, drummer Emilio Valdés and pianist Jesus ‘Chuchito’ Valdés Jnr., became professional musicians. Fonseca studied at the Guillermo Tomás School of Music in Havana and in 1991, when in his mid-teens, he performed at the Havana Jazz Plaza International Festival and attracted considerable attention. After graduation, through the mid-90s he performed at other festivals and in concert and at clubs playing solo and in various groups that included Agua Pura and Temperamento, co-leading the latter with saxophonist Javier Zalba. In addition to playing extensively in Cuba, Fonseca has also performed in Colombia, Canada and Australia, and has visited Europe, receiving acclaim in England, France (playing live in Paris read more...