I am Cortez, an Italian artist from Rome, known by my real name Alessandro Bagagli for my English production of 7 rock albums: Under the Gun and Magic in the Air (2013), Shouted Songs (2014), Primal Life (2015), Live & Die (2016), Out in the Nowhere (2017) and Highways & Cigars (2018).

I was born as a guitarist and now I am a multi-instrumentalist and an independent composer.

I started in 1994 with PolyGram / Mercury under the stage name Alex Baggi and an Italian rock album called Un Po’ di Sentimento.

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After my experience as Alessandro Bagagli, I started a collaboration with artists from all over the world and in 2019 I released The Eve, Entropy and a single, I’ll Make it Up for You with The Eve brand. At the end of this experience, I wanted to start a new musical journey.

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I changed my name to a new stage name, Cortez and in 2020 I released two brand new works in Italian, two rock albums Poeta di Strada and Nel Colore della Notte.

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My musical journey has no rules or a specific musical style. I write and do what I like. So, again in 2020, I released a new funk and soul disco album Come to Poppa, a tribute to the Seventies' disco funk music of Studio 54.

In February 2021 it came out Souled, an album with strong soul funk tints.

 

Then I went back to where it all began. I played in hard rock and heavy bands. I was a singer. That’s how I started. I was young and my room was full of vinyls and posters of Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, UFO, Free... and on June 4th, 2021 I paid tribute to my old passion for hard rock with the release of my new album Through Death Valley & Nowhere.

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My journey also pushed me to the coast of California, on a psychedelic trip that draws inspiration from groups and artists such as The Byrds, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and George Harrison.

​A rebirth that led me to new destinations full of creativity and peace, con Rise Again, released on October 7th 2021.

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For Christmas 2021 I decided to go back to rock in Italian with the album Domani Cambio Nome.

As I promised to my Italian friends, after two years I went back to writing and realizing an album in Italian. It is a rock album, with dark hues, a little reflective.

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In March 2022 I went country with Train a Coming, my album released on March 4th.

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June 21 marked another step in my discography, with the release of Modern Blues. 

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In December  2022 an album titled Rock 'n' Roll Packed has been released.

Next album is called And the Rain Was Coming Down and it will be out February 16, 2022.