Tito Alcedo

About Tito Alcedo

Guitarists of the calibre of Tito Alcedo are very rare indeed.

Born in 1958 Cadiz, Andalucia, Alcedo was interested in music from a very early age. He began strumming the guitar at the age of 12 and was 15 when he became the lead guitar member of a band, which mainly focussed on rock music. Shortly afterwards, he discovered jazz and began to work intensively on this form of music. Up to that point, the young musician had quite a normal development. The striking fact about Tito Alcedo, however, is that he has never had a teacher or taken comparable lessons on his instrument in his entire life, let alone been to a conservatory for that purpose. He undertook all of his musical studies by himself – which is all the more surprising in view of his enormous virtuosity. Alcedo's ability is regarded as almost unlimited. The energetic and self-taught musician has long been at home in various different musical directions. His fields of activity up to now include rock and pop, classical music and jazz. Flamenco, however, has been the backbone of his entire musical career and is clearly the great love of his musical life. Besides the Beatles and the rock legend Jimi Hendrix, Django Rheinhardt, the Franco-Belgian Romany guitarist who astounded the world with his revolutionary playing in the 1930s, was a great example to Alcedo from an early age. But even now, flamenco has remained his preferred form of expression, despite occasionally interweaving verse forms from other genres into his music. The volume of musical projects on which Tito Alcedo has worked is as comprehensive as the spectrum of his musical ability: He has supported a large number of musical colleagues both live and in the studio , produced countless soundtracks for television and film productions, and founded projects such as the prestigious co-operative "PALABRA DE GITARRA". He has been awarded many prizes as a soloist and is a welcome guest at the festivals and trade fairs. He has also been teaching at various colleges in his homeland since the early 1990s.