Alfonso Noel Lovo is a composer and Nicaraguan rock musician born in Leon … Read Full Bio ↴Alfonso Noel Lovo is a composer and Nicaraguan rock musician born in Leon that produced the Santana concert, presented by Cantinflas, the National Stadium in Managua in October 1973 to help victims of earthquake in Managua, in the December 22, 72 .

His main instruments are guitar, bass, and keyboards.

He was the first artist in Nicaraguan presented at the Teatro Ruben Dario, when it recently opened in 1972 with the Concert Idolo, a group of local rock stars.

Wrote and directed his first album Richter 6.3 earthquake in New Orleans, with a group of musicians from that city. The voices of the choir of the Cathedral of New Orleans, give it a gospel sound very interesting.

It is a fusion of music: Nicaraguan Mazurka, and guitar Mora Limpia , with African rhythms (Back to Africa), blues (Managua, Nicaragua Blues), Modern jazz (Apocalypses), psychedelic rock (Magic Mushroom World), traditional jazz (In the Woods of the moon).

Even in the album are heard influences Carlos Jobim, in 'Leonor', a bossa nova, with flute, instrumental.

It really is one of the most eclectic albums we've heard, very good quality.

Lovo recorded an album in Managua in 1976 with Jose 'Chepito' Areas, founder of Santana Band, which is unpublished, La Gigantona. He also recorded another album in New Orleans 1n 1983, with Chepito, and a Louisiana jazz group, Give me all your Love.

And then in Miami in the 90’s, he recorded an album, Freedom Fighters, which led to an invitation by Ronald Reagan to the White House. As a result, the English writer, Patrick Carr, wrote a chapter on Lovo, THE KING OF CONTRA ROCK, in his book Sunshine State, about Florida.

Lovo still writing and playing music in Nicaragua, where he lives, and is producing a new album with Chepito Areas. He is one of the most creative and versatile musicians of Central America.

In July 2010, the La Gigantona CD album has been finished and will be released in Miami, San Francisco and Managua. The theme song is La Gigantona, which is a folk character in the form of a giant woman, 10 foot tall, dressed up with a colorful long dress, and longs braids, that dances in the street with a big headed midget, called the Enano Cabezon. This is a popular dance that is a 6x8 syncopated beat, danced in the streets of Leon, Lovo and Chepito's hometown, that identifies with the Nicaraguan people as perhaps the most typical of all characters, and dances.

The album also features La Bomba de Neutron,( The Neutron Bomb), Los Conquistadores, Tropical Jazz, Space Symphony in C minor, Firebidrd Feathers, and a drum solo, with Chepito and his friend Chava Fernandez, called Rio San Juan Drums. It is mixture of latin rock, with acid jazz, with a full orchestra as backup, including sax, flute, trombone. It shows Lovo's creative skills, and playing, as well as Chepito Areas style with a back cover of him and Tito Puente in a joint concert, in San Francisco in the 80's.

Several videos can be seen in Youtube, including Freedom Fighter, and several newscasts, of Lovo, just under the name Alfonso Lovo, to evaluate the exposure and background in the USA of this Nicaraguan musician.