Alfredo De La Fe

Cuban-born Alfredo de la Fe has been one of the most respected and certainly the most daring and experimental on the salsa circuit for three decades. With his trademark snaky braided hair and manically wielding a customized 6-string fiddle, on stage he is a riveting ball of energy. Darting amongst the musicians, he switches from playing a conventional, sweet charanga-supporting role with the brass and horns to, to emerge for intense solos which puncture the air with jagged, luminous, electronic melodies built in a series of tense, stirring, climaxes.