Biography
Rodrigo Cuevas is a singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist and self-styled ‘folkloric agitator’ who continues to develop his practice and performance art, taking inspiration from the old and the new. Cuevas explores traditional songs with cabaret and cuplé, and creates a dialogue between electronic music and his own personal senses of humour, social criticism and sensuality, turning his shows into a cultural and sensorial experience with many points of origin.
Cuevas’ third solo stage show, de Covadonga (2020), presented in Spain, as well as his new record Manual de Cortejo, have received wide acclaim and a clamorous reception from both the public and critics as well as from national newspapers (El Pais, El Mundo), national radio (Radio 3) and music magazines (Rockdelux, Mondo Sonoro).
Cuevas is the recipient of the Spanish Independent Music Awards (Premios MIN) for the Best New Artist and Best World Music & Fusion Album (2020).
He studied piano and tuba at the Eduardo Martínez Torner Superior Conservatory of Music (CONSMUPA) in Oviedo and Sonology at the Catalonia College of Music (ESMUC), Barcelona.
Cuevas was born in 1985 in Oviedo, Spain, where he continues to live and work.
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