ABOUT REY RODRIGUEZ

The German/Cuban Rey Rodriguez has been fond of music since childhood: At the age of ten, he went to a primary school of music where he studied classical percussion and choral conducting (4 years). In 1986 he went to the National School of Arts in the Cuban capital (Classical and popular Percussion (for 4 years) and continued his studies in 1990 at the University of Arts Havanna as a classical percussionist and Orchester conductor. When he came to Germany, he completed his Musical Theatre performing arts formation at the Musical school in Berlin, Neukölln, and started his extraordinary career.

His first works were as a musical director, arranger, second voice, percussionist and founder of the band that accompanied the legendary Cuban singer “Liuba Maria Hevia”. At that time he appeared in Havana’s most important theatres and on TV. He received his first award for best musical direction at the international music fair “Cubadisco” in 1999, with the album Coloreando la Esperanza and Del Verso a la  mar.

Being in Germany, he started as a musical performer. He played many roles throughout such as Disney’s The Lion King, Wicked, Elton John’s AIDA, West Side Story, Fame, Porgy and Bess, Oklahoma, Astor Piazzolla’s Maria de Buenos Aires, and many more. However, he was not only on stage, but also worked backstage in the artistic direction of D.C,  R.D, and also as a conductor. 

He founded his own production company “Rey Rodriguez Productions” in 2008 and since then worked as a producer, director, composer, consultant, and manager of many talented international artists from the Musical Theater and Music sector. 

For example, he produced the CD and DVD “Adios a Cuba”, in which he gave the Cuban/ American Pianist Adonis Gonzalez a stage for his music. He also composed and produced the single Una Canción for the theatre movie „Dancing in the Streets - Body Language“, sung by Musical Star Gino Emnes.

In 2011 Rey Rodriguez was nominated as a producer for the Latin Grammy’s in the category “Best Classical Album”  for the CD Adios a Cuba. He was also awarded in the category “Best Concert Audiovisual” for the DVD of the same production at the international fair “Cubadisco 2012”. In the same year he produced the album “ISLA” with the composer AIlem Carvajal and was awarded at the “Cubadisco 2013” in the category “Best Concert Album”. Rey Rodriguez also produced and conducted the soundtrack for the documentary “Behind the Wall”. The Film premiered in November 2012 in New York and Boston and at the International Film Festival in Montreal. He directed the great show “Carribean Cocktail”, which went on tour in Europe 2013 and was produced by Stichtig Carribean & Latin Jam. Two years later he produced and conducted another soundtrack for the documentary movie “Limbo” by Lester Hamlet. In 2015 he directed and produced a workshop for a new show for R.R.P Ltd. in Tenerife.

The projects that Rey Rodriguez has produced are as versatile as the artists he works with. He produced the album of the world famous opera singer Eglise Gutiérrez in New York, (still in Post-production) and the album Let it Run (Dijala Correr) by Ludmila Mercerón, in Barcelona in 2014. Rey Rodriguez last worked on the production of the album “Ich sing mein Lied” (I sing my song), also as an Orchester conductor and directed the video clips “Frag nicht warum” and “Ik hou van jou” by the artist and Musical Star Gino Emnes, which came out in December 2017 and was praised by the trade press. Rodriguez was directing the video clip for the single “Possibly” by actress Annic Barbara Fenske. His latest project was the production of the video clip “Einander” from the album “Ich sing mein Lied” and collaborated in 2022 with Stage Entertainment as mus. Studio Producer for the recording of the ZDF Fernsehgarten performance for Tina, the Tina Turner Musical. 

Artists under contract to Rey Rodriguez Productions (Management and/ or agency):