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Artist
Alvaro Soler
12+ albums
poplatinspainspanishlatin pop
about
Álvaro Tauchert Soler (born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain on 9 January 1991) is a Spanish singer-songwriter. He gained great fame all over Europe with his 2015 hit "El Mismo Sol". A special bilingual Spanish / English version of "El Mismo Sol (feat. Jennifer Lopez)" was also made vying for international release in the United States, UK and worldwide. Born in Barcelona to a German father and a Spanish mother, he became multilingual at a young age. He moved with his parents to Japan at age 10, staying there until age 17. He took piano lessons very early in Japan. Returning to Barcelona, in 2010 he established the musical band Urban Lights alongside his brother and some friends. The band continued performing music described as a mixture of British pop, indie pop and electronic music building following locally. They won a university music contest and the band appeared in 2013 on the Spanish music casting contest ¡Tú sí que vales! reaching the Final 8. They released some materials and self-produced album. Soler also pursued studies in industrial design at Escuela de Grafismo Elisava, also going to a music school and working with a modeling agency based in Barcelona. Soler decided to drop the Urban Lights band in 2014 to go solo establishing himself as a musical artist based in Germany. Based in Berlin, he released his single "El Mismo Sol" co-written by Soler and Ali Zuckowski and Simon Triebel (from the band Juli) and produced by Triebel. The song released on 24 April 2015 bec
