The pianist and composer Pepe Rivero is part of the “New generation” of Cuban musicians who had their breakthrough in the international jazz scene. After finishing his classical piano studies in Havana he decided to devote himself to jazz. He toured with various Cuban jazz bands.
In Spain, he met Paquito D`Rivera and Celia Cruz, and he started to collaborate with them inmediatelly.
Pepe Rivero accompanied Celia Cruz in her live concerts and during studio recordings and was soon treated as an insider tip in the scene when it came to new compositions or arrangements. In 2001, he founded his own band called PEPE RIVERO AND FRIENDS in Madrid, together with trumpeter Manuel Machado, saxophonist Bobby Martinez, drummer Georvis Pico, percussionist Yuri Nogueira and Santi Greco who plays the e
