# Eme Alfonso Valdés

**Categories:** Music, female composer, Singer, Arts

Eme Alfonso is a Cuban Latin Soul singer and songwriter whom the National Public Radio of the United States (NPR) identifies as a promise of Latin music. A young composer and singer who explores a multitude of sounds and rhythms from a base of soul and jazz, including contributions from R&B, pop, electronic music, and Afro-Cuban music.

At age 7, she recorded for the first time on an album, alongside Silvio Rodríguez, and at 16 she was nominated for a Latin Grammy with the band Síntesis, with whom she toured America and Europe for 10 years. At 23 years old, she won the Cubadisco award for best Cuban fusion album for her solo debut "Señales". She has worked with renowned artists such as Fito Páez and Chucho Valdés.

At 26 years old, this young composer and singer has just released her second album "Eme" with the Cuban label Producciones Colibrí. According to an NPR review, "The compositions on the album depend entirely on the warm and emotional interpretation of [Eme] Alfonso". On "Eme" the artist shows an innovative style, mixing Cuban and Latin music with Soul and Jazz, and recreates the Golden Age of Cuban music from the 1950s.

Eme is expanding her career in America and Europe. Her music has been heard on Canadian radio Galaxie, NPR in the United States, and RNE in Spain. After her tour of the United States last spring, where she dazzled audiences like those at SOB's in New York, Eme is presenting her new work in the summer and fall of 2012 at several international festivals such as the Sonorama Festival in Spain.