Andrea Alvarez is both a popular and an avant-garde artist.

She was the first female percussionist and drummer - we can also say the only one so far- who participated deeply involved in the scenes of national rock music, performing a central role. She formed the first women rock band together with Maria Gabriela Epumer and Claudia Sinesi (Rouge) and the first great success in this genre: Viuda e Hijas de Roque Enroll.

As a professional musician, she participated in important events together with national and international renowned artists. Charly García, Divididos and Soda Stereo are but a few of the local names included in the list below. At an international level, she played with Celia Cruz, Tito Puente and Alex Acuña.

Due to her perfectionist spirit, she studied with several teachers in Argentina as well as in the United States, where she lived for three years. Lito Vitale, Horacio Gianello and Fernando Martinez in Argentina; Johny Almendra, Frank Malabe, Kenwood Dennard and Madeleine Yayodele Nelson in the States. She studied composition at Universidad de la Plata and vocals with Iris Guiñazú, Amy Grumwalt and Esteban Sielicki among others.

Andrea is also a teacher and shares her knowledge with hundreds of students (most of them women) who are inspired and encouraged by her talent and creativity. She also performs workshops for the products she sponsors: Latin Percussion, Paiste and Evans.

Maternity responsibilities kept her away from the scene for a couple of years, dedicating her time mainly to teaching. This period finished when she was invited to participate in Soda Stereo's last concert in River Plate Stadium, in 1997.
After conceiving and maturing a personal creation, Andrea Álvarez decides that 1999 is the year to go on stage again, with her own strong and vital project, bringing the feminine energy into the drums.

In this scene she feels she wants to embrace the whole creative universe from composition to vocals and from performance to the direction of other four percussionist women, who she has also trained.

So she creates PULSOMADRE, group in which she directs four other percussionists and a keyboard player. By means of this work she presents her own songs. She films an independent video for the song “40 minutos” directed by Elian Galiese.


SOLO CAREER

In 2000 Andrea teamed up with a young producer, Emilio Haro, to give shape to what would become her first album - a journey across the universe of sensibility, intuition and feminine sensuality, making use of rustic ethnic roots represented by the percussion instruments, and fusing them with futuristic electronic sounds.
The album is edited by DBN and includes the participation of Gustavo Cerati, Erica García and Zeta Bosio among others. As well as composing all the material, Andrea was in charge of the direction, percussion arrangements and vocals. The producer is Emilio Haro, who also played the keyboards and composed the harmonic arrangements.
In 2003, and after having presented her fist album with Pablo Paz and Enrique Casal, she decides to record an EP with two songs and their respective videos (one of them is her version of Entre Caníbales, a Soda Stereo's song). The CD, also produced by Emilio Haro, is edited by Pop Art.


DORMIS?

Emilio Haro again is part of the production team, but this time Mauro Quintero and Franco Fontanarrosa are also involved in the arrangements, and Andrea herself is the general director of the whole project. The album is recorded with Hernán Agrasar as a technician, who –together with Andrea— is in charge of mixing the songs.
The album is mastered by Eduardo Bergallo at Mr.Master.
Dormís? is released in 2006, edited by Pirca Records and distributed by Universal Music.


CURRENT TIMES

In 2008 Andrea releases her new album “Doble A”, this time with her new band members: Mauro Quintero in guitar and Nano Casale on bass.
For this record Andrea employs the talent of Jim Diamond, a well known producer from Detroit, to give her record a more raw and visceral feel. The album is recorded by Jim Diamond at ION Studios, and mixed and mastered in his own studio, Ghetto Recorders, back in Detroit.