Chico Alvarez

Ernesto "Chico" Álvarez Peraza (otherwise known to the Latin music world as Chico Álvarez) is a Cuban North American artist of Latin American music who has been performing as a singer throughout the New York City tri-state area for the last four decades.

He currently performs with the Afro-Cuban band Mafimba and is also the host of a Latin jazz radio show on Sunday afternoons at WBAI Pacifica Radio (99.5 FM) called the New World Gallery.