Volume 4 - Ethnicities Magazine - October

BIOGRAPHY
THE STORY OF
ALEJANDRO HILTON
BY: KEILA SALAZAR MORENO, B.A.
This is Alejandro Hilton, a musician with interest in
music from an early age. Since he was 11 years old, he
was influenced by Michael Jackson, The Police, Beastie
Boys, The Cure, NWA, OPP, Bob Marley, and many others
developing an interest from then in playing instruments.
Since a drum set would be too expensive and noisy, he
started playing the guitar.
In the early 2000’s, he started playing with his first blues
band, where they did tributes to Eric Clapton, BB King
and Stevie Ray Vaughan. In this band “La Vibra (The
Vibe)”, he recorded his first album “Primogénito (first
born)”, but in 2007, the band split, and he started his
own solo project.
As a solo artist it was hard, due to the fact that ev
body knew him as a bass player, and nobody knew
composed songs on the guitar but little by little he
ted recording his own songs. His first solo single
“Antro de Rutina” in 2009. For it’s release he orga
a student contest with a prize of $300.00 for the m
king of its video. Because of this video, the conce
making an animated series called “Un Rasta Astro
y Los Perturbadores Cósmicos (An Astronaut Ras
The Cosmic Disturbers)” was developed. The sing
that followed were “Rockero de Acero (Steel Rock
“No lo puedo evitar (Can’t Help It)”, “Para qué? (W
for?)” and many others. Single by single and while
king in a non profit foundation, he promoted his s
the media, until he started working with North Am
band promoters, like Skid Row, among others.
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