Cheche Alara

Ezequiel "Cheche" Alara is an Argentinian-born musician, composer, and musical director. He has been the musical director for various of the American Idol concert tours, five times for the Latin Grammy Awards, for episodes of Dancing with the Stars, The Tonight Show under both Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno, and The Winner Is, and for touring and recording musicians including Christina Aguilera, Pink,Thalía, and Lady Gaga. Alara obtained a B.A. in Arranging/Orchestration from Berklee College of Music in Boston and a Masters Degree in Jazz Studies from the University of Southern California.

Alara was a participant in the Playing for Change charitable multimedia music project in 2011, playing keyboards on PFC 2: Songs Around the World. For the Lady Gaga song, "Americano," on the 2011 album, Born This Way, Alara recruited the all-female mariachi group Trio Ellas. In 2015, Alara produced the Spanish version of L'amore si muove, by Il Volo. Alara has acted as a producer and musical director for Natalia Lafourcade, and played keyboards for Lafourcade's CDMX: Music from Mexico City performance in October 2017. Alara has been nominated for the Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year in the 18th Annual Latin Grammy Awards for his production of Lafourcade's Musas (Un Homenaje al Folclore Latinoamericano en Manos de Los Macorinos, Vol. 1).