Alejandro Manuel Palacio Zawady, born on June 5, 1985, in Santa Marta, Colombia,
is a Colombian singer-songwriter and actor. He began guitar lessons at age eight
and vocal training at age eleven under Judith Brassard. At age seventeen, he
chose to pursue a music career and traveled to the United States, eventually
moving to New York where he was recruited by Israel Romero to join the vallenato
group Binomio de Oro de América. During his four-year tenure with the ensemble,
he contributed to the albums Grafiti de amor (2005) and Impredecible (2006),
both of which received Grammy no...