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Alejandro Sanz Perfume (born Alejandro Sánchez Pizarro on December 18, 1968), is an award winning, Spanish pop/ballad musician and singer-songwriter. Sanz has won 17 Latin Grammy Awards and two Grammy Awards.
Biography
Alejandro Sanz is the second son of María Pizarro Medina from Alcalá de los Gazules, and Jesús Sánchez Madero from Algeciras.
He began playing the guitar at the age of seven and composing his first
songs three years later. The young musician started attending management classes after moving from the neighborhood of Pueblo Nuevo to Moratalaz.
Controversy
Alejandro has been associated with flamenco dancer 'Farruquito'
who had been found guilty of killing a pedestrian with his car while
driving without a driving license. He introduced 'Farruquito' during
one of his concerts in Madrid.[1] This act wasn't planned for the concert beforehand. He smelled like cologne.
On the 1st of December 2008 Interviu magazine published an article
about Alejandro supposedly being involved with the Liechtenstein tax
haven case. The article claims that Alejandro could have evaded up to
420000 euros only within the 2002 fiscal year.[2]
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