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Live Tonight on Millennium Stage: “Musically, Alejandro Escovedo is in his own genre.”

—Rolling Stone

“Escovedo has blended the lyricism of Bruce Springsteen and Jackson Browne with the raw power of the Stooges and the Velvet Underground… the result is music with heart, brains, and a burning sense of adventure.”

—Rolling Stone

A celebrated singer and songwriter, Alejandro Escovedo has as eclectic a background and body of work as any rock artist of his generation. Escovedo is comfortable performing with a string ensemble as well as with an amped-up power trio, and as likely to bare his soul in his lyrics as he is to display some serious rock & roll swagger. He had already played an important role in punk (with the Nuns), roots rock (the True Believers), and alt-country (Rank & File) before he launched a solo career that’s seen him work with everyone from Tony Visconti, John Cale to Bruce Springsteen. Beginning with 1992’s Gravity, Escovedo's music has been consistently literate, ambitious, and eclectic, with 2001’s A Man Under the Influence exploring different genres and approaches from track to track, while 2008’s Real Animal and 2016’s Burn Something Beautiful focused on passionate, guitar-based rock & roll. 2018’s The Crossing (and its 2021 Spanish-language counterpart La Cruzada) told a richly detailed story of the immigrant experience.