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Born in the city of Matanzas, Cuba, on the 6 of July 1966.

He Begins his professional career as a musician at 18 years old, in the summer of 1984, studying at that time in various schools: Escuela Nacional de Mùsica Gerardo Guanche, Escuela Nacional de Mùsica Amado Roldàn, Escuela de Mùsica y Superaciòn Profesional Ignacio Cevantes. He finishes his studies with the title of Graduaciòn como Mùsico Instrumentista y Profesor.

In this same year he enters the Orquesta de Mùsica Moderna de Matanzas, where he works professionally for approximately a year, interpreting all types of repertories, in addition to producing several recordings.

 

Later on he moves to Varadero, Where during the next year and a half works in different band.

In 1987 and 1988 he settles in the City of the Havana and works in recording of EGREM and the ICAIC (Instituto cubano de Artes e Industrias Cinematogràficas), recording music for theatre and television.

In 1988 he begins playing with the group Costa Caliente , whit whom he will stay with for approximately the following year and a half.

At the same time he begins to carry out some work related to Jazz, together with other musicians, this work ending up with the formation of the group Talla Extra . From this point on, he begins a new stage in his musical career, due to the huge exit of this group with whom he worked during four years, later the Cuban singer Xiomara Laugart, is also united. With this arrangement, they record two compact discs: in 1989 and in 1992, they take part in various nation an international tours, numerous concerts, in theatres, parks and other places with a multitude of audience.

At the end of 1992, he begins to collaborate in various sporadic jobs with a well known pianist and Jazz arranger: Pucho Lòpez, with whom he begins to play with, participating in the Jazz Festival in the Habana, and in the Jazz Festival in Toronto, Canada in 1993. In this same year, a variety of concerts were scheduled to be played in Vermont (US) yet were cancelled due to the denial of the groups' entrance to the United States.

 

In November of 1993 he participates as a soloist together with Pucho Lòpez, accompanied by the Orchesta de Mùsica Moderna de Villa Clara, in homage to Armando Romeu, once of cuba's greatest musicians.

In 1994, he moves on to form part of the group Afrocuba (occasionally accompanied Silvio Rodrìguez), with whom he accompanies on international tours and records three compact discs.

 

At the end of 1995, while residing in Denmark, he joins Cuban music band (salsa) Son en Talla, participating in various festivals in the North of Europe. Among others in the Salsa Festival in Copenhagen, where he shares the stage with important groups such as Los Grandes Daneses de la Salsa, o Kid Kreole.

During this time, he performs in different Jazz clubs as well: In Sweden, "Nefertiti" or in the "Jazz House" in Copenhagen. In addition, he comes out in various occasions with the radio and television station in Copenhagen: Dagma Radio.

In the summer of 1996, he moves to Granada, Spain an establishes his residency. It is here that he decides to form his own band Nardy's Jazz Quintet. They their debut in the Club de Jazz y otras musicas "Secadero". This is the beginning of a new phase in his artistic career, the head of a Jazz Band.

During his time in Granada, he continues to collaborate with a number of different local and national group like Cu-bop o La blues Band de Granada.

In the last few months of 1996 and until May of 1997 he forms part of the Madrid band La Barberia del sur.

In June of 1997 he receives the "Secadero 97" award for the best Jazz saxophonist.

 

The summer of 1997 initiates an international tour with the recent formation of Cuban residents in Europe and Cuba, known as Cubanismo, featuring Jesus Alemany, who was the founder, and participated in the recording of the first record in Cuba in 1995.

Since the summer of 1997 he begins yet another stage in his artistic career with various world tours with Cubanismo, performing in numerous Jazz Festivals, with all types of music in almost every continent; sharing the stage and performing with very prestigious musicians, primarily in the world of Jazz.

 

These tours continue up until 1998 and 1999. In the last tour throughout the United State, between April and June of 1999, he participates and carries out-together with the rest of the band Cubanismo as well as individually- WorkShops, and Conferences in some universities in the United States. For example at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, the University of Guelph, in Ontario-Canada- the University of Denison en Gran Ville-Ohio; University of Wisconsin; University of White Water, etc. This served to be a very important and positive experience in his professional career.

 
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