Felix Contreras

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2,270 appearances 28 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 16 Sep

Felix Contreras’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 28 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 6.

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NPR Music · Alt.Latino: Ana's summer playlist · 5 Aug 2026 podcast

I wrote to the people on TikTok and it was her record label. voice-verified

And they sent me all this other stuff. voice-verified

But that's how I found out about her. voice-verified

And I'm really glad I did because it's one of these musicians that I've been featuring, musicians from Latin America who are interpreting jazz through their own cultural lens. voice-verified

And this is one of the standouts. voice-verified

And I got to tell you about Alejandra Gala's backstory. voice-verified

She is a former synchronized swimmer on Uruguay's national swim team. voice-verified

Wow. voice-verified

She also worked as an acrobat in a circus. voice-verified

And she picked up a guitar and trumpet along the way. voice-verified

She was the first ever Uruguayan accepted into the Berklee School of Music's Global Jazz Institute. voice-verified

And she studied there with the biggest names in jazz, including pianist Danilo Perez, who's from Panama and famously played for many, many years. voice-verified

with Wayne Shorter and his quartet. voice-verified

The song, I Played You, I Dare You, is Wayne Shorter's very, very zen answer to someone who said, hey, Mr. Shorter, how do you define jazz? voice-verified

And he says, jazz is I dare you. voice-verified

That's the essence of everything about jazz. voice-verified

And she named her song based on his answer. voice-verified

She has a full album coming in November. voice-verified

It's called Bajo del Arbol, Un Tambor. voice-verified

The email from the record label says it's developed from her thesis at Berklee, and her thesis was titled Tradition and Gender, A Story About Symbols, Women, and Rhythm. voice-verified

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