Latin Jazz Musician Alex Garcia Wins Emmy Award

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Alex Garcia, Composer, Drummer

Alex Garcia

The Chilean-born, Cuban-raised drummer, composer, and bandleader Alejandro “Alex” García has won an Emmy® for best Single Spot/Campaign from the New York Chapter of the 55th National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

In a phone conversation from Santiago, Chile, where he was vacationing with his family, García expressed his gratitude to the Academy for the award and talked about the process of finishing his next CD—the fourth with his New York–based Latin jazz-fusion ensemble AfroMantra. The group’s critically acclaimed third CD, Uplifting Spirit (AfroMantra Records, 2007), was pre-nominated for Best Latin Jazz Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards and the Latin Grammy Awards of 2007.