Dayron Ortega

Dayron Ortega graduated from the ENA in 1996 as a guitarist. His first professional musical group was “Son del Río” in Havana, of which he was the founder. A year later, he became part of the “Melao Son” project, with which he made his first International Tour in Canada. In 2000, he was called to be the founder of the project “Pancho Amat and his Cabildo del Son,” in which he performed as an instrumentalist and vocalist (guitar), until the beginning of 2015. With this group he made international tours to different countries: Spain, Italy, Vienna, Holland, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, United States, Canada, Qatar, Japan, and Angola.

He was the musician and arranger of the group “El Niño y la Verdad” of the Provincial Music Company Antonio María Romeu, where he currently works.

Ortega worked on the ABRAZO, INTERSECTIONS, and CHÉVERE projects, which collected works by American authors of the record label PARMA Recording and had them performed by Cuban musicians. In these and future projects, Ortega participates as arranger and musical producer. He has shared stages with important figures of the cultural world, national and international, such as Silvio Rodriguez, Pablo Milanés, Sara González, Frank Delgado, David Álvarez, Rochy, Augusto Blanca, Martha Campos, Javier Colina, El Cigala, María Victoria Rodríguez, Barbarito Torres, Miriam Ramos, Corina Mestre, Víctor Víctor, Andy Montañez, Edwin Colón, Tata Güines, Papín, Emilio Morales, Tiburón Morales, Los Santos Brothers, Joaquín Clerch, Dominic Miller, Algeria Fragoso, Eduardo Sosa, Fran Fernández, and others. He is a member of the UNEAC.