Edesio Alejandro Rodríguez Salva, born on March 28, 1958, is one of Cuba

Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...

's most renowned composers of electronic music

Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

 for film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

s.. He has composed music for theatre plays, TV, and movies; as well as several concert compositions. Many of them experimental, using synthesizer

Synthesizer

A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...

s and mixing together actors, dancers, and musicians in unusual line-ups (1).

His rock opera

Rock opera

A rock opera is a work of rock music that presents a storyline told over multiple parts, songs or sections in the manner of opera. A rock opera differs from a conventional rock album, which usually includes songs that are not unified by a common theme or narrative. More recent developments include...

 Violente, of 1987, is considered the first rock opera in Latin America

Latin America

Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages  – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...

 (1). His band, active since 1988, has an eclectic and innovative sound, using Cuban styles such as rumba

Rumba

Rumba is a family of percussive rhythms, song and dance that originated in Cuba as a combination of the musical traditions of Africans brought to Cuba as slaves and Spanish colonizers. The name derives from the Cuban Spanish word rumbo which means "party" or "spree". It is secular, with no...

 and conga

Conga

The conga, or more properly the tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed Cuban drum with African antecedents. It is thought to be derived from the Makuta drums or similar drums associated with Afro-Cubans of Central African descent. A person who plays conga is called a conguero...

 in fusion with foreign genres such as rap, funk

Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

, soul

Soul music

Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...

, and hip-hop (1).

Edesio Alejandro has played in South America

South America

South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

, and Europe

Europe

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. His albums Orisha Dreams and Black Angel were among the first 100 of World Music

World music

World music is a term with widely varying definitions, often encompassing music which is primarily identified as another genre. This is evidenced by world music definitions such as "all of the music in the world" or "somebody else's local music"...

 in Europe in 1999. Blen Blen, from the CD Black Angel, was first place for several weeks in the MTV Europe

MTV Europe

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 Dance Floor Charts (1).

In 2010 was nominated to Latin Grammy and in 2011 to American Grammy for the production 100 sones cubanos.

Among his work, are noteworthy his collaborations with director Fernando Pérez

Fernando Pérez

Fernando Pérez Valdés is a prominent Cuban film director.Pérez graduated from the University of Havana with a degree in Language and Spanish Literature, and began working in the Cuban film industry in 1971 as an assistant director, before directing his first documentary in 1975.His feature debut...

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Filmography

1983

• El desastre del Barcástegui. (Doc.).

1987

• Clandestinos. Dir. Fernando Pérez.

1988

• Una más entre ellos. (Doc.). Dir. Rebeca Chávez.
• Entre leyendas. (Doc.). Dir. Rebeca Chávez.
• Octubre del 67. (Doc.). Dir. Rebeca Chávez.
• El desayuno más caro del mundo. (Doc.). Dir. Gerardo Chijona.

1989

• Dribleando. (Dibujo Animado). Dir. Mario García-Montes.
• El caballito de los dos nombres. (Dibujo Animado). Dir. Mario García-Montes.
• El alfabeto. (Dibujo Animado). Dir. Tulio Raggi.
• Dibújame un cordero. (Doc.).
• La vida en rosa. (con Manuel Eugenio). Dir. Rolando Díaz.

1990

• Detrás del espejo. (CM.).
• El hombre y su aventura. (Doc.).
• Caravana. Dir. Rogelio París y Julio C. Rodríguez.
• Hello Hemingway
  Hello Hemingway
  Hello Hemingway is a 1990 Cuban drama film directed by Fernando Pérez and starring Laura de la Uz. The plot, set in Havana in the last period of Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship, follows a young girl whose aspirations to obtain a scholarship in America, against the odds, are paralleled with her...
  
  . (LM. Ficc.). Dir. Fernando Pérez.
• La crin de Venus. Dir. Diego Rodríguez Arché.

1991

• Adorables mentiras. (LM. Ficc.). Dir. Gerardo Chijona.
• El amor se acaba. (CM.).

1992

• El triángulo. (CM.). Dir. Rebeca Chávez.
• La bobocracia. (Dibujo Animado). Dir. Elisa Rivas.

1993

• Sosa Bravo en dos tiempos. (Doc.).
• Solo nosotros los dinosaurios. (CM.).
• El largo viaje de Rústico. (Doc.). Dir. Rolando Díaz.

1995

• Madagascar. (Ficc.). Dir. Fernando Pérez.
• De Fresa y Chocolate a Guantanamera. (Doc.). Dir. Rebeca Chávez.
• Del otro lado del cristal. (Doc.). Dir. Guillermo Centeno.

1996

• Blue Moon
  Blue moon
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  . Dir. Fernando Timossi D..
• El Sardinas. (CM.). Dir. Manuel A. Rodríguez.

1997

• Kleines Tropikana. (LM. Ficc.). Dir. Daniel Díaz.
• Historia en África. (Doc.). Dir. Rebeca Chávez.
• Patinando La Habana. (Doc.). Dir. Jorge Luis Sánchez
  Jorge Luis Sánchez
  Jorge Luis Sánchez is a Cuban film director. He was a founder of the Federación Nacional de Cine Clubes de Cuba - the Nacional Federation of Cine Clubs of Cuba....
  
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1998

• La vida es silbar
  La Vida es Silbar
  Life Is to Whistle is an award winning, 1998 Cuban film directed by Fernando Pérez- Plot synopsis :The film tells the stories of three end-of-the millennium Cubans, whose lives intersect on the Day of Santa Barbara...
  
  . (LM. Ficc.). Dir. Fernando Pérez.

1999

• Como los dioses. (Doc.). Dir. Lázaro Buría.

2000

• Hacerse el sueco. (con Gerardo García). Dir. Daniel Díaz.
• Algo más que el mar de una esperanza. (Doc.). Dir. Francisco Andino.

2001

• Nada. (LM. Ficc.). Dir. Juan Carlos Cremata.

2002

• Suite Habana
  Suite Habana
  Suite Habana is a 2003 Cuban documentary directed by Fernando Pérez.The documentary was filmed with fictional cinema techniques depicting a day in a life of thirteen real people, from a ten-year-old child with Down Syndrome to a 79-year-old lady who sells peanuts in the street.The film has no...
  
  . (LM. Ficc.). Dir. Fernando Pérez.

2003

• Viviendo al límite. (Doc.). Dir. Belkis Vega.
• Perfecto amor equivocado. (LM. Ficc.). Dir. Gerardo Chijona.

2004

• Bailando Cha Cha Cha. (con Ernesto Cisneros). Dir. Manuel Herrera.
• Tres veces dos. (Cuento: Lila). Dir. Lester Hamlet.

2005

• Un Rey en La Habana
  Un rey en la Habana
  Un rey en la Habana is a film produced in 2005 starring Alexis Valdés.- Plot :Papito is a young actor grown up in "El Mamey", the most dangerous marginal district of La Habana, which he dreams to leave someday along with his small theater group.Don Arturo arrives in Cuba full of promises and...
  
  . (LM. Ficc.). Dir. Alexis Valdés.

2007

• Madrigal. Dir. Fernando Pérez.

2008

• Kangamba.Dir. Rogelio Paris.

2009

• Marti el ojo del canariol. Dir. Fernando Pérez.

2010

• Boleto al paraiso. (LM. Ficc.). Dir. Gerardo Chijona.