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Alexis Arias (Alex Arias) (born 1960) is a pianist recording engineer, and music producer, known for working producing and recording with many famous performers of salsa music, although he has recorded and produced in other genres like House, Hip Hop, Reggaeton, Merengue, and Balads as well. He has worked with some of Latin music's most popular artists including Luis Enrique,Tommy Olivencia, Hector Tricoche, Eddie Santiago, Hansel y Raul, Willy Chirino, Lalo Rodriguez, Pupy Santiago, Daniel Santos, Israel Kantor, Roberto Torres, Lefty Perez, Rey Ruiz, among others. Biography Arias, the son of Costarican parents, was raised in Cañas Guanacaste Costa Rica but most of his life lived in Miami Florida USA, and attended the Miami-Dade College. He had started his professional career with Conjunto Impacto and Conjunto SauSix in 1972, then moved on to Bands like Elektra, Jaque Mate, and Via Libre where he started to do his first recordings and live performances during the late 1970s. Starting in 1980, Arias was musical director for several album recordings, including being pianist for Salsa Latina for their album "Salsa Latina", During this period he was also a member of Orquesta Celebre and their release of the album in 1985. After all this experiences Arias moved to Puerto Rico where he worked as a pianist for a period of 5 years. It was not until he came back to Miami and became the engineer for sabado gigante at Midi Express Studio producer and engineer of Hansel & Raul and chef engineer for Willy Chirino in 1994 that his status as one of the most sought-after salsa producer and engineer was stamped. Arias then concentrated in attending College and educating himself mostly on Jazz where he performed with the Miami-Dade College Jazz Band Thanks to the success of those works, he became the main visionary behind the Miami-based Latin label Univibe Records, between 1999 to 2004, arranging, producing, and directing dozens of recordings for that label, working with artists like Roberto Torres, Hansel & Raul, Tego Calderon, Don Chezina, Alberto Stylee, Rey Pirin, Grupo Niche, among many others. In early 2005, Arias left Univibe Records to pursue his own producing venture with Univibe Studio. During this time, he formed Metrix Records, featuring rappers and other genres as well. His producing credits continued on with all kinds of performers. At the Latin Grammy and American Grammy 2011 Alex Arias received his two awards for his Mixing work on "The Last Mambo" recorded live by Israel Lopez (Cachao) Alexis Arias (Alex Arias) (born 1960) is a pianist recording engineer, and music producer, known for working producing and recording with many famous performers of salsa music, although he has recorded and produced in other genres like House, Hip Hop, Reggaeton, Merengue, and Balads as well. He has worked with some of Latin music's most popular artists including Luis Enrique,Tommy Olivencia, Hector Tricoche, Eddie Santiago, Hansel y Raul, Willy Chirino, Lalo Rodriguez, Pupy Santiago, Daniel Santos, Israel Kantor, Roberto Torres, Lefty Perez, Rey Ruiz, among others. Biography Arias, the son of Costarican parents, was raised in Cañas Guanacaste Costa Rica but most of his life lived in Miami Florida USA, and attended the Miami-Dade College. He had started his professional career with Conjunto Impacto and Conjunto SauSix in 1972, then moved on to Bands like Elektra, Jaque Mate, and Via Libre where he started to do his first recordings and live performances during the late 1970s. Starting in 1980, Arias was musical director for several album recordings, including being pianist for Salsa Latina for their album "Salsa Latina", During this period he was also a member of Orquesta Celebre and their release of the album in 1985. After all this experiences Arias moved to Puerto Rico where he worked as a pianist for a period of 5 years. It was not until he came back to Miami and became the engineer for sabado gigante at Midi Express Studio producer and engineer of Hansel & Raul and chef engineer for Willy Chirino in 1994 that his status as one of the most sought-after salsa producer and engineer was stamped. Arias then concentrated in attending College and educating himself mostly on Jazz where he performed with the Miami-Dade College Jazz Band Thanks to the success of those works, he became the main visionary behind the Miami-based Latin label Univibe Records, between 1999 to 2004, arranging, producing, and directing dozens of recordings for that label, working with artists like Roberto Torres, Hansel & Raul, Tego Calderon, Don Chezina, Alberto Stylee, Rey Pirin, Grupo Niche, among many others. In early 2005, Arias left Univibe Records to pursue his own producing venture with Univibe Studio. During this time, he formed Metrix Records, featuring rappers and other genres as well. His producing credits continued on with all kinds of performers. At the Latin Grammy and American Grammy 2011 Alex Arias received his two awards for his Mixing work on "The Last Mambo" recorded live by Israel Lopez (Cachao)