Roly Berrío

Roly Berrío is one of the most prolific and talented singer-songwriters in Cuba. His music moves through almost all Cuban genres winding up in a particularly unique blend. Diverse, provocative and highly talented, Berrío is gifted with an extraordinary ability to master both voice and guitar, and the theatrical stage. Composer of two themes for the film ‘Havana Blues’ (Dir: Benito Zambrano), Berrío first performed, and developed musically, as co-founder of the exemplary Trio Enserie. The trio created a completely new sound in the Cuban music scene of the 1990’s and was subsequently awarded the prestigious Orden Nacional por la Cultura de Cuba which Berrío holds to this day. As well as being a musician and composer Roly Berrío is also an actor, exploiting all of these facets in the 2013 Cuban-Swiss theatre production ‘Les Larmes des Hommes’. Berrio has toured in Europe, Central and South America. With the French band Neeskens, Berrío toured Cuba and France in a Radio France International project. In 2019 he was invited to open Silvio Rodriguez' 101st concert of the celebrated 'Gira interminable por los barrios’. One of Berrío’s most recent songs, Los viejitos, was used as the soundtrack to the latest short (from a series of 15 named Los cuentos de Nicanor) from Cuban film maker Eduardo del Llano.