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Colombian traditional dance music creating innovative Salsa and Latin American music. The first solo violinist to perform with a Salsa orchestra, De La Fé has toured the world more than thirty times, appearing in concert and participating in over 100 albums by top Latin artists, including
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Arts enabled him to further his studies. De La Fé launched his professional career, at the age of 12, when he switched from classical music to salsa and accepted an invitation to join charanga musician
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in 1997. Two years later, he toured with his own band, appearing at festivals in
Denmark, Holland, France, Turkey and Belgium, and reunited with Eddie Palmieri's Orchestra for a European tour.
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A child prodigy, Alfredo's father who was a singer (a tenor of opera) in
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