About leo quintero

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Leonardo Quintero, better known as Leo Quintero, is a composer, guitarist, arranger and

producer, born in Caracas, Venezuela. He lives in Miami since 1995.

He is currently legally blind; since the last 4 years. How ever he has continued making music as

a performer, composer, producer and works as a music instructor.

Graduated with honors (Cum Laude) from the Berklee College of Music, in Boston, United

States; Leo was a member of the Berklee faculty from 1991 to 1995.

Leo is widely recognized as a jazz performer, he has participated in many projects such as

Tiger's Baku (tour of the USA, Canada and Japan 1981-1984), The Bob Moses Band (tour of

Europe 1985-1986), Igor Buttman Quintet (Boston 1989-1990), Paquito de Rivera and the

Habana Ensemble (Boston 1991), The Road Quartet (Miami 1998-2004). In 2000, he also

shared with Arturo Sandoval and Chick Corea at the Jam Miami concert along with Ed Calle,

Claudio Roditi, Horacio “El Negro” Hernández, Poncho Sánchez, Pete Escovedo, Dave Samuels,

Tony Succar, Sammy Figueroa. With Jose Negróni on the album “Negróni+9 which was

nominated for the Latin Grammys.

Leo has his own albums such as “Another Day”, “Ofrendas”, released under the Fono Jazz

Universal label, and his most recent production is titled “The Christmas Album”.

For more than 50 years he has also been noted for his work as a session guitarist. He highlights

a long career in the style of pop and latin music , which includes works with prominent

international stars of different genres, such as il Divo, Ricardo Montaner, Engelbert

Humperdink, Andres Cepeda, Fonseca, Ilan Chester, Son by Four, Alexander Pires, Alejandro

Montaner, Ricardo Montaner, Frank Quintero, Alejandro Lerner, Franco De Vita, Jon Secada,

Thalía, Olga Tañón, Juan Gabriel, Elvis Crespo, José Luis Rodríguez, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Ricky

Martin, which won the Grammy award for album of the year and Armando Manzanero among

many other artists. 13 of these colaborations have been nominated or won Grammy awards.

In 2014 he joined the Berklee College of Music program, called “Berklee Latino”, traveling and

teaching classes in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Mexico.

Currently, he is one of the producers and sometimes musical director at Blue Road Records

Studio on the projects of composer and singer Miriam Stone.

At this time delivers private guitar and music lessons (or online) from his own home studio.