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Mutable, mysterious, yet expressive and singularly open to experience, Beto Cuevas is an extraordinary artist whose energy and intelligence infuse all that he does – as musician/singer/songwriter frontman for La Ley, as a solo artist, as a collaborator, as a visual artist and most recently as an actor on the silver screen. And as Beto himself would tell you, this journey is nowhere near the end.
But every journey has a beginning, and for Luis Alberto Cuevas Olmedo this one began on September 12, 1967 in Santiago de Chile. His family emigrated to Venezuela when he was just 3, his first step toward becoming the citizen of the world he now considers himself to be. Living in Caracas he enjoyed a fairly typical childhood that gave little indication of his future ambitions (though he admits that an early film going experience with his father – to see “The Man With the Golden Gun” -- fostered his first vivid interest in acting.
Within 7 years the family moved again, this time much farther north, to Montreal, Canada, where Beto spent the pivotal formative years of his life as a creative artist and performer.
In Montreal, he studied graphic design and co- wrote and acted in his first theatrical production – an ambitious play relating the history of the world! As a teenager he cut his musical teeth on the new wave of New Romantic bands of the ‘80s, adding their influence to that of the early rock-‘n-roll from his childhood. At this point, however, his singing was largely confined to his shower! He also became fully tri-lingual, adding fluent French and English to his repertoire of languages.
Never yet dreaming he would end up a singer, at age 21 he felt the need to reconnect with his homeland and left Montreal to spend some time in Chile. It was there, in a Santiago karaoke bar, that the public first heard Beto's remarkable voice (channeling Elvis). Members of local band La Ley, looking for a new singer, soon followed suit. The rest, as they say, is history...
Beto made his singing debut with La Ley’s first full-length album “Desiertos”, quickly followed by their first major label release “Doble Opuesto”, which featured an English-language single – a cover of the Rolling Stones’ “Angie”. That single and its accompanying video propelled the band to almost instant fame throughout Latin America.
From 1988 to 2005, Beto and La Ley followed a nearly unparalleled trajectory of success. Indefatigable world travelers, they found enthusiastic fans all over the planet – from Japan to Australia, to France and Spain, the U.S. and Canada, and of course Latin America. Along the way they garnered several Grammy awards (and many more nominations), various gold and platinum records and other impressive accolades. With a voice of exceptional strength and beauty, Beto was renowned worldwide as a charismatic rock star – an exciting kinetic performer who conveys an inner intensity of vision and purpose in every song, every look, every move, connecting body, mind, heart and soul with his audience. He became equally famous for his talent at crafting moving power pop/rock songs with lyrics that are at once vivid, mystical, poetic, philosophical and romantic, on topics ranging from the sacred to the profane and everywhere in-between. La Ley’s MTV Unplugged in 2001 was a milestone achievement that cemented them once and for all in their status as Latin America’s premier musical export. During this time Beto served not just as La Ley’s lead singer and songwriter; he also composed songs for major film soundtracks (“Everytime” for Crazy/Beautiful, “Estrellas Que Me Dan Vida” for El Planeta del Tesoro (Disney’s Treasure Planet), and most recently, the moving Grammy-nominated ballad “Bienvenido al Anochecer”, for Siete Dias). Over the years, he has also collaborated with many other international artists including Mikel Erentxun, Los Prisioneros and Masters At Work.
In 2005 La Ley declared a formal hiatus, for each member to explore other creative avenues. For Beto, this has meant a time to not only launch a solo career as a musician, but to finally follow his lifelong yearning to work as a film actor. Since the beginning of 2005, he has appeared in 3 films: playing a cameo role in Siete Dias, an Opus Dei priest in La Mujer de mi Hermano, and in his first English language role, a satanic drug cult leader in Zev Berman’s upcoming Borderland. As of March 2006 he is filming Una Vez Mas, his first starring role, portraying a philosophy professor who according to Beto is “on the verge of finding a whole new meaning to the word love”.
While continuing to pursue his acting career with the passion he always brings to his work, Beto is also writing songs for his first solo album, due to begin recording at the end of 2006. The journey continues. . .stay tuned!
Biography written by Susan Enterline
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