Musical Artists

Omar Alexander

CAMBIO - Music Director & Composer
Listen to a sample of Omar's music (:30) MP3 

Omar Alexander is a new generation U.S. Latin music artist virtuoso - a singer, songwriter, composer and musician with a Latin Gypsy Funk Rock musical style.  Born to a Colombian mother and Indian father, Omar Alexander’s fierce Bohemian warrior-poet musings represent the bilingual, multicultural U.S. Latino generation; optimistically defining itself on its own terms. With Soulare, his hard-funking band of professional musical brothers from all over the globe - including the U.S., Colombia, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Holland and Israel - Omar Alexander falls within the recent powerful wave of U.S. Latin and first generation immigrant artists who grew up influenced by Latin, American and World Music. Omar Alexander’s powerful, rough, melodic gypsy-like voice was developed from his lifelong exposure to his father’s Sufi and Hindu devotional music (notably Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Hari Om Sharan).  His mother’s musica llanera Colombiana - a type of Colombian folk music from the countryside where she was born - exposed him to its own brand of poignant poetry. From his older siblings, Omar Alexander grew up with 70’s sounds - from soul and funk music, to rock anthems, to the early pioneers of salsa and flamenco. Artists of conscience and heart are the ones that continue to influence him to this day: Stevie Wonder, Santana, the Latin Jazz of Ray Barretto and Eddie Palmieri, the Flamenco of Paco de Lucía and El Camarón de la Isla, to modern day artists that include Prince, Seal and U2. Pull every single one of these diverse influences together, and you have the explosive combination that is Omar Alexander.