Alberto Pérez (musician)
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Alberto Pérez Lapastora |
| Also known as | El Trovador Paisajista (The Landscape Minstrel) |
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20 August 1950 Sigüenza, Guadalajara |
| Origin | Spain |
| Genres | jazz, latin, a cappella |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter, composer, guitarist, orchestra conductor, music producer, actor |
| Instruments | vocals, guitar |
| Years active | 1956–present |
| Labels | Ariola, CBS, BMG, Avizor Records |
| Website | albertoperez.info |
Alberto Pérez Lapastora (Sigüenza, Guadalajara, 1950) is a Spanish singer, composer, guitarist and music producer. He has also been involved in radio and cinema throughout his career.
He took his first steps in the music world in the choir of the Sagrada Familia (1956) and the so-called Rondalla Seguntina (1961), where he set foot on a stage and went on tours for the first time. At 16 he formed a pop group called "Somos" ("This is us") for which he composed his first songs and recorded his first demo tape. While doing military service in Madrid (1968–70), he got to know musicians from Guinea and for the first time had the chance to experiment with non-European music. He moved permanently to Madrid (1972), studied Spanish Philology (Linguistics) at the Complutense University and music, harmony and counterpoint at the Royal School of Music. In those years he travelled extensively around different European countries, where he worked as a 'troubadour' and theatre musician.
In 1981 he formed "La Mandrágora" together with Joaquín Sabina and Javier Krahe, a trio to which he brought his romantic touch as well as a sense of showmanship, and with whom he would make a record of the same name that is still being re-released.
In 1984 he was invited to take part in the Spanish television programme "Si yo fuera presidente" for which he created a character inspired in the vocalists and crooners of the 1940s and 1950s who sung a selection of around 100 famous if long-forgotten songs. He formed the Alberto Pérez Orchestra that he would conduct for 12 years. His record "Amar y Vivir" (To Love and To Live) belongs to that period.
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