Alex Borges

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Hi, I'm Alex O. Borges an american-puertorican singer. I started writing songs at the age of 18 and had the chance to participate in a compilation: "Hijos de Borinquen", as a solo artist. A record made in support for cancer in the island of Vieques. This record had the participation of some P.R. spanish language local bands like "Sol D'Menta", "Skapulario", "Rituales", "Manjar de los dioses" and others.
I finished my first production in Spanish "Entre tu y yo" in 2002 but it was released later in 2003 as an independent record in P.R."DIME" Video
"Dime" (Tell me), the promotion track, had some radio airplay in the west part of the island, specially in WAEL. 96.1 FM 96 ... no surprise everybody thought that I sounded like an european singer when most of people heard my song on the radio. The debut cd had a small promotion tour over the island including some instores. We had the great honor to play for charity shows. By helping others we make our music more useful.That same year I started to work on what would be my first effort writing material in English,but the songs became very important because the track "Fever" hit the 2 spot at soundclick Rock charts for 4 weeks in a row and "Tell me" hit 1 spot at the Pop chart for 2 weeks.After talking with friends and people from the music media, they asked me to do some cover songs and I ended doing a cover album: the best to do was to make covers of my influences like Prince, Def Leppard, U2, The cure, Bryan Adams, Aerosmith and many more. People that influenced my heart with lots of good artistic inspiration.
NOW LETS TALK ABOUT UNION JACKET project: Alex O. Borges, Jose Valentin, Jaime Vazquez and Dave Meredith. We teamed up for a pop rock musical project. Union Jacket was formed in late 2004 when Dave "Mezzer" approached me to work on some songs together. In 2005 we made the first EP demo album titled "Beginnings". Surprisingly, our experiment worked and we decided to continue making music. Union Jacket had to make a stop for a while because one of the members had to stay for a while in the United Kingdom resolving some personal matters... but hopefully soon we will back on track recording more material.Now in 2007,we decided to work on my second solo music work and plans are to release some material mostly in spanish language for Puerto Rico. Along with it a video for the promotional track. Expectations are high and things keep getting better and better in matters of music and art expression.Thanks to all of the great musicians, faithful friends and other special people over the years for the amazing support and love... we will continue making good music for all of you.- Alex O Borges
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