ALFONSO ACOSTA
Alfonso Acosta is a multidisciplinary artist, guitarist, composer, and founder of "Jenny and the Mexicats" musical group. Born in Mexico City (1985), he began his studies in a self-taught inspired by Punk and Metal music. In this search for new sounds, he falls in love with the Classical / Flamenco guitar and immerses himself in a new flamenco world.
He decided to move to Madrid at the age of 17, where he began his studies professionally at the hands of Maestro Enrique Vargas, nourishing himself not only with Flamenco but also with Jazz, Manouche, Clásico, Son Veracruzano, among others.
During his stay in Madrid, he combines his studies working at the Tablao Las Carboneras, where he learns the great wisdom of the universal art form Flamenco. From 2008, part of the band "Jenny and the Mexicats" met anecdotally and decided to undertake this adventure of musical fusion.
In the latest production by Mariana Collado and Lucio Baglivo, "MyL 2.0" (2020), he opts for a much more contemporary version of the flamenco guitar and rhythm of Cumbia.
He is experimental and plays with the different ways of using sound effects; he collaborates with the Malucos Danza company in the show "Sed, la magic del agua," where he begins to examine and create his label for a world in motion and importance for dance. Pantera is the sum of genres and nationalities, feeding on the depths of the Mariachi, the Cumbia to the most Jondo groan of the guitar, leaving it printed in every project he has developed over the years.