Alejandro Escovedo
Alejandro Escovedo ( born January 10, 1951 in San Antonio, Texas) is an American singer of Mexican descent.
Biography
Escovedos music career began in the mid 1970s with the punk band The Nuns. A few years later he founded with other rank and file, with the Sundown published in 1982 his own album. Shortly thereafter, he left the band again and started with his brother Javier, the True Believers. EMI took them under contract, they toured with, among others, Los Lobos and they recorded two albums. But when the label prematurely ended the contract, which ultimately meant the end for the band.
In 1992, the first solo album by Alejandro Escovedo, titled Gravity. In addition to his solo career, he played in the 90's also in the band Buick MacKane. In 2003 he had a health setback because of a protracted hepatitis C. After the disease had been overcome, began his collaboration with producer Tony Visconti. They helped him to honor late and with his the 2008 album Real Animal, for which he wrote all of the songs together with Chuck Prophet, he came first in the U.S. album charts. Her follow-up album Street Songs of Love reached the charts two years later.
Alejandro Escovedo is the brother of ex- Santana percussionist Pete Escovedo and thus uncle of Sheila Escovedo, aka Sheila E.
Discography
Album
- Gravityimaging (1992)
- Thirteen Years ( 1994)
- The End / Losing Your Touch ( 1994)
- With These Hands ( 1996)
- More Miles Than Money: Live 1994-1996 (1998)
- Bourbonitis Blues ( 1999)
- A Man Under the Influence (2001)
- By the Hand of the Father ( 2002)
- The Boxing Mirror ( 2006)
- Real Animal ( 2008)
- Street Songs of Love ( 2010)
- Big Station (2012 )
Tribute album
- Por Vida: A Tribute To The Songs Of Alejandro Escovedo (2004, double CD)