Posted AT 3:59 AM EDT on 12/06/08
Identity fusion
Alexis Puentes has done it all wrong and succeeded wonderfully.A Cuban expatriate, he left his burgeoning career as a jazz-fusion bassist to come to Canada, where there is next to no market for Latin music. He has since reinvented himself as a Spanish-singing guitarist-songwriter with the stage name Alex Cuba, even though his intimate voice isn't the clarion call typical of Cuban front men.
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