Cesar Orozco

Cesar Orozco is a Cuban-born pianist, vocalist, composer and arranger who leads SonAhead, a project that fuses Cuban son and timba with modern jazz and electronic elements. Born in 1980, he trained in violin performance and ensemble conducting at the National School of Arts in Havana before building a prolific career across fourteen years in Venezuela. He moved to the United States in 2012 and earned a Graduate Performance Diploma from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University in 2014, then settled in the New York area in 2015 as an in-demand sideman and bandleader. He has appeared on more than eighty albums, seven of them his own, and worked with artists including Paquito D'Rivera, Pedrito Martinez and Yosvany Terry. In 2025 he won the Latin Grammy for Best Arrangement for the SonAhead song Camaleon.