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Alan Elvira Da Silva is an Afro-Argentinian artist. He is a musician, singer, multi-instrumentalist, producer & composer. With a world music style his original songs comes and goes between America, Africa and Europe.

Worked in his 2 first albums and has been producer of Tardío (Germany), Anna Tréa (Brasil), Linda Karen (Spain), Rocio Faks (Argentina) and Miszellany (Spain/Germany). Also worked as resident producer in Sol de Sants Studios over 3 years.

Alan Elvira Da Silva was born on 13 May 1993, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Son of a Brazilian mother and an Argentinian father. At the age of 5, he moved to Mar del Plata (Buenos Aires), where he grew up in a musical environment. He began his formal drum and percussion studies at age 13, at the IMMC (Instituto Marplatense de Música Contemporanea). While he started singing and playing the guitar on his own. During his adolescence he was part of several Brazilian music and percussion groups, and he accompanied several singers as a drummer, percussionist and guitarist. As a songwriter, he reflects an intense personal search, and a varied musical taste, with well-marked Afro-Brazilian roots, and lyrics inspired by everyday life and innermost emotions.

In May 2016, he released his first album (EP) called "Volume 1", recorded in Buenos Aires, and he presented it for three months, in several European countries.

His latest album, "VILA C" was released in 2019 and the title comes to commemorate his childhood in the lower neighborhood of Foz Do Iguaçú, Brazil.

He is currently based in Barcelona.