Rafa Peletey

Singer and composer Rafa Peletey started playing guitar and studying classical music at the age of 7. He has been with many bands, all of greatly varying styles, as bass player,guitarist,keyboardist and singer.

He has shared the stage with artists such as Al Jarreau, Lou Reed, The Christians and Eric Burdon to name but a few.

He is also an ambient and deep house artist and has been featured on quite a bunch of compilations, he has also produced and arranged for other artists. All of this experience led him to the world of production which he has been doing since the early nineties.

He is the proud grand son of the music conductor Jesus Etcheverry, who has recorded nearly seventy albums of the classical lyrical repertoire for the Phillips label.

For several years Rafa was teamed up with Steve Norman, founder member of Spandau Ballet, composing and producing.
The compilation "A journey through Savannah, Ibiza smooth lounge", the production/composition for the italian quintet "Quintessenza" or Steve's own band "Cloudfish" are some of their collaborations.

"So high", one of the songs of Cloudfish composed and produced by Rafa and Steve has been used as a generic for an australian radio during several years.

He has composed and produced for the project "De la peña" with the DJ pioneer Alfredo, godfather of the Balearic movement and one of the creators of house music, and has also worked with French drum 'n' bass pioneer Guillaume Garrone, aka Eye n ear.

In 2007 he started collaborating has a composer with lyricist Juan Mari Montés, one of the most prolific writer of the spanish market, who has published more than 500 songs, for the likes of top spanish artists like Ana Belén, Malú, Sergio Dalma, Jose Mercé, Loquillo y Trogloditas, Sole Gimenez, Amistades peligrosas, Los Chichos, Dúo Dinámico, Javier Ojeda or Cómplices between many others.

Two of the first songs of this collaboration will be included on the next album of David Zueras, one of the winners of the "Operacion Triunfo" TV contest.

He recently collaborated with producer Ingmar Hansch aka Ingmarlo for the label Movin' Sounds, providing vocal and guitar parts on three tracks of the second album of REAL XS and four tracks on the new DJ SUSSO (Space Ibiza) album, which has been released during the Summer of '07 on the compilation “La maison de l’elephant”.

He has also recently collaborated with the DJ Angel Cielo (Pacha Ibiza), providing vocals and guitars for a chill out version of Peter Gabriel’s “In your eyes”. This version has been released on the compilation “El Ayoun” and on the chill-out compilation of Amnesia Ibiza during the Summer of ’07.

Currently Rafa Peletey is working on his own solo album alongside with Ingmar Hansch while doing concerts with his own acoustic ensemble playing with the likes of Cuban guitarist Norberto Rodriguez (Juan Perro), saxophonist Roque Martinez (Jerry Gonzalez, Judge Jules, Roger Sanchez) or pianist / producer Rafa Garcés.