Rey Crespo & Cuban Ensemble

Rey Crespo was born in Havana, Cuba in 1954. His encounter with music began with the guitar at the age of 10. Later in university, he finished his degree in Archaeology and Architecture, but it was in 1964 when he fully started to develop his real passion in life at the Alejandro Garcia Caturla School, where he studied Guitar, Singing and Music Appreciation. He went on to the Ignacio Cervantes School, where he graduated in Electric Bass, Double Bass, Harmony Counterpoint, Fugue and Orchestration. At the Felix Varela School, he studied Musical Direction and Orchestration with Armando Romeu, a graduate of the Berklee College of Music. Rey had participated as arranger and producer with outstanding musicians such as: HilarioDuran, Demetrio Muniz, Ruben Gonzales, Orlando Lopez (Cachaito) and Lazaro Valdez (Bamboleo), Jesus Alemany( Cubanismo ). Rey continuos working in the England to doing arranger, producer, ect... also he's a musical director and bassplayer The Ska Cubano band, his owned band that called Cuban Ensemble