Genre:Latin Rock
X-Alfonso (born c. 1974 as Equis Alfonso) as composer, musician, singer and filmmaker, he has development a multifaceted career. That’s the reason for he is considered one of the most important artists in the contemporary Cuba. X Alfonso started his career with Estado de Animo, an avant-garde fusion group of the Cuban scene. In 1990, he joined as singer and composer or co-composer to the Cuban group Síntesis, a pioneer band that explores the fusion between Afro-Cuban music—Cuban roots—and contemporary music, and where he participated in six records.
X Alfonso started his solo career in 1998, and since then he has recorded six albums, characterized by a mixture of jazz, hip-hop, Cuban folklore, funk, electronic, and other contemporary sounds, reaching with his music a broad audience.
X Alfonso collaborated with artists like James Slater, Montell Jordan, Rick Wakeman, Cibeles, Bebé, Carlos Varela, Descemer Bueno and Audioslave, and played in Paz sin fronteras II (Peace Without Borders), a multitudinary concert that convoked more than 1.15 million people in Plaza de la Revolución, Havana, Cuba. His band played in different international places like: Spain, Panama, Mexico, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, Holland, Germany, United States, Canada… with presentations in festivals around the world like the Rock in Rio (Brasil) Womex (Spain, 2006), Roskilde (Denmark, 2007), Peace&Love (Sweden, 2010/2011), Luminato (Canada, 2013).
For his supporting work in defense of childhood and education in projects like Calle G and Schools against Hurricanes was recognized with the title of UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
Like a filmmaker, he made some video-clips, and he won some prize named Lucas, the principal Cuban event about this genre of the audiovisual art. In 2009, he realized the documentary named “Sin Titulo” (Without Title), about the universe of the artists in Cuba at the recent years. That is the point of the beginnings of a new project, Fabrica de Arte Cubano (Cuban Art Factory), a unique space in Cuba where X Alfonso presents young artists (musician, filmmakers, painters, dancers, actors) with the old generations; he made a space that is the opportunity to show the Art that the people do not meet. Nowadays, Fabrica de Arte Cubano is a consolidated cultural center in Havana, and a national and international referential for the Cuban Culture; and X has achieved prominence as one of the island's most successful entrepreneurs and his vision has been celebrated by many important American media like CNN, The Paper Magazine, The Huffington Post and Billboard.