Roberto Cofresi
As a child, Roberto Cofresí debated the meaning of ‘I am the Walrus’ with his mother. As a teenager he sneaked in through the outfield to catch the Runaways open for Grand Funk Railroad; he also co-wrote the teenage proto-Rock-en-Español anthem ‘Fuego’. In 1982, he attended a tertulia at Alfonso Arana’.... more
As a child, Roberto Cofresí debated the meaning of ‘I am the Walrus’ with his mother. As a teenager he sneaked in through the outfield to catch the Runaways open for Grand Funk Railroad; he also co-wrote the teenage proto-Rock-en-Español anthem ‘Fuego’. In 1982, he attended a tertulia at Alfonso Arana’s Paris atelier experiencing for the first time the unfettered interaction of music, literature, visual arts, and French wine. Later he studied conceptual art with Thomas McEvilley, film with Brian Huberman, and music with anyone who could strum a chord whether a music scholar at Rice University or a Nahua guide on the way to the Cola de Caballo waterfall in the Gran Sierra Madre Oriental in Mexico. He played songs to passengers on a broken down ferry drifting through the Gulf of Baja California; he played with Dry Nod at the legendary Pik ‘n’ Pak in Houston, and met with the Accountant to the Stars for exactly 10 minutes in New York City. Currently, he writes and plays guitar for New Town Drunks.