bio

Iago Fernández is a drummer who plays and composes as if he were writing poetry. No wonder the Galician-born musician is called a "drum poet", especially since, in addition to his award-winning drumming, he actually writes poems and paints colorful visual worlds. In this artistic manifestation, Fernández explores his inner self and deals with the essence of his psyche. A balancing act between sun and ocean, light and dark, equally audible in the compositions of the Swiss by choice. His spectrum ranges from jazz music to Radiohead, from classical music to popular music from Brazil, Portugal and Galicia, recorded on six albums with collaborators such as Mark Turner, Yumi Ito, Joris Roelofs, Reinier Elizarde "El Negrón", Enrique Oliver and André Fernandes, among others.

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Since an early age, Iago Fernandez has performed regularly at festivals and clubs in America, Asia and throughout Europe, especially in Switzerland, Germany, Spain and Portugal. He has performed with artists such as Avishai Cohen (trumpet), Lionel Loueke, Perico Sambeat, Jesse van Ruller, Jorge Rossy, Steve Nelson and many others. Fernández can also be heard on more than 50 albums, six of them as bandleader and composer: "Agromando" (2011), "Acougo" (2015), "Brisa" (2016), "Acougo Live" (2020), "Luzada" (2022) and "Suite Natural" (2024). Other projects currently include Yumi Ito, WIZ, Iannis Obiols, Xan Campos, Fernando Brox Quintet, Álvaro Ocón, and Martin Theurillat, among others.