Daniel Alfaro

My name is Daniel Alfaro, I’m a brazilian percussionist based in São Paulo, Brazil.

I’ve been performing and recording for over 10 years across many genres, collaborating with artists, orchestras, Disney and Broadway musical theatre, big bands from around the world.

I’m expert in creating a percussion arrangement from scratch, bringing sounds you never imagined and respecting what the music is asking for. But I can also record traditional musical styles like:

Brazilian rhythms: samba, bossa nova, carnaval, forró, maracatu, frevo etc;
Brazilian Afro rhythms: ijexá, cabula, barravento, congo de ouro etc;
Pop;
Disco;
R&B;
Rock;
and many more…

Some of the instruments I can bring to your music include:

Brazilian percussion instruments (pandeiro, berimbau, agogô, zabumba, triângulo, caixa, repiques, tamborim, surdo, cuíca, alfaia, conguê, xequerê, caxixis, atabaque, ashiko, timbal, caixa do divino, reco recos, chocalho etc);
Skin percussion (congas, bongos, djembe etc);
Cajon;
Derbak;
Bendir;
Shakers (more than 30);
Effects (more than 200).