Alfredo Rodrigues - Cuban Piano Prodigy

Alfredo Rodrigues is a young Cuban born pianist who is both at home with classical and jazz music. He not only plays the piano and also composes his own music. He is also co-writer with Quincy Jones for the Shanghai Expo Theme song: Better City and Better Life. He has been invited by Benz to play especially for their clients in Sanya. And he was also invited by the Shanghai Film Festival to play for the closing ceremony, Grace Pen, wife of the owner of the Les Suites Orient Hotel on the bund invited him to stay and also provide him with a 200 year piano for him to play at the press conference. Alfredo played his version of a Chinese melody, TianMiMi, and won loud applause from everyone present at the press conference. We went and covered the news and showed his talent in our news video.

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News & Politics

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• Shanghai
• News
• Interview
• Alfredo
• Rodrigues
• Expo
• Song
• Better
• City
• and
• Life

[shadowkill2419]

the piano is an Antique and usually for display only, thats why its out of tune.

[canadianscot06]

why did they give him a piano to play on that was out of tune? Yuk. Great talent though, wow.