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Alfredo
López Mondragón Instruments of Mexico, Latin and South America charango guitar guitarra huapanguera jarana vocals Alfredo López Mondragón (Alfredo López)
of Mexico City. A student and performer of regional music since he was 11, Alfredo shares with all the members of the group a passion for scholarship and the preservation of authentic musical forms. He has mastered more than 20 styles of Latin American traditional music, skillfully plays various instruments and is also a superb vocalist. At the age of 16 Alfredo mastered the tres cubano (the national instrument of Cuba; a guitar with three pairs of steel strings) and formed a trio, Huemac, performing Mexican and Cuban romantic popular songs in restaurants, galeryes hotels and bars in Mexico City, Michoacán, Veracruz and Querétaro. He began private formal musical studies at 17 and taught traditional music and dance in Mexico City and in rural communities in Oaxaca, Jalisco, and Michoacán, at this time he was attending the Instituto Politecnico Nacional (I.P.N.) in Mexico City and with fellow students formed the group, Chicahuastles. Alfredo then resumed private studies, this time with Adrian Nieto Arenas, a member of the renowned group Los Folkloristas of Mexico. In 1981, he formed another group, “Ti Feu” in the Zapotec language) and spent two years touring Europe before founding Quetzalcóatl (Feathered Serpent; in Nahuatl language) in the early 80s. “It was there” Alfredo says, “on the old continent, that we adopted a more universal name within our culture and have since been known as Quetzalcóatl”; Alfredo has performed extensively throughout Latin America, Europe and North America. He has made on camera appearances and composed songs which have been included in films such as “The Net,” starring Sandra Bullock, “Luminarias”, starring Scott Bakula and Robert Beltran, and ”American Me”, produced and directed by Edward James Olmos who also stars in the film, and most recently “The Maldonado Miracle” produced and directed by Salma Hayek for Showtime, starring Peter Fonda, Mare Winningham and Ruben Blades. In 2002, Alfredo composed and directed the music for the pageant play “La Virgen de Guadalupe” for the Latino Theater Company of Los Angeles. The theatre piece was directed by film and theatre director Jose Luis Valenzuela, and was the first play to be performed at the new Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles. In addition to touring and performing with Quetzalcoatl, Alfredo teaches Latin American folkloric music in Mexico and Los Angeles, CA., in addition to collaborating in the monthly program “Dialogos Culturales de Media Noche”on the Public Radio station KPFK 90.7FM. already for the last 5 ALFREDO LOPEZ ON FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/alfredo.m.52?fref=tsa |
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