JOSE ALBERTO "EL CANARIO"

Jose Alberto "El Canario" is a privileged artist, with an exceptional voice, with a unique style. He is also a master improviser. He was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on December 22nd.

His family became aware of better horizons further from his country's frontiers and decided to travel with Jose Alberto to Puerto Rico when he was just seven years old. In the enchanting island of Puerto Rico, he joined the Las Antillas Military Academy where he pursued his musical studies.

His formidable performing abilities were a factor in opening doors for him and later on, he decided to take residence in New York City where he began to show the outstanding skills that make of him a star in tropical music. He became a distinguished figure in many popular orchestras of the time, earning profound reverence from the audience troughout the nation.
The experience he accumulated made him a musical leader, and in 1983, he hired a well-known group of musicians and formed the Jose Alberto "El Canario" & Su Orquesta; the most spectacular and danceable group in New York. In 1987, Ralph Mercado chose Jose Alberto, to inaugurate the Tropical catalog of the RMM label. "El Canario" has recorded a dozen excellent productions (ten of them for RMM). Celia Cruz has chosen him as her colleague on stage and for years they have become the most perfect and solid combination in international music.

Since then, he has traveled the five continents and today, on each one of them, "El Canario" is known as a stellar artist of the Tropical rhythm genre. From the United States to Patagonia, Jose has been acclaimed in France, Italy, London, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Central and South America and the Caribbean.

The voice and rhythm of Jose Alberto is present on stages throughout the continents where people dance and praise his unmistakable style and enjoy his energetic and contagious music.

His successful recording career includes countless Gold and Platinum records, and international recognition that just a few artist can exhibit as an impeccable document of an artistic career.

For all of this
and withouth a doubt
we could say that
in Jose Alberto's musical career,
every album is a hit.
On every song he reveals his soul