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#52- CARINA ALFIE 
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Carina Alfie is an extremely talented guitarist who, easily, is able to impress to the most experienced guitar listener/player.
Carina was born on the 15th of March of 1968 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Since 1988 she has been a female band member of Rouge Band, Angel, Heroinas and Paysana. With the last band, she recorded two songs for the album ”The Best of the Under” for EMI in 1993. Together, with her present project Lunatycas which she founded, Carina begins her performance as a soloist, exploring a new world within music: the instrumental rock. In october 1996, she carried out her first album "Aislamiento”, edited in 1997. In order to support this independent production, a video was made with the song “Aislamiento” (May´96) and “Vinka” (March´97), broadcasted by Much Music, ATC and Cable.
In march 1997, during Steve Vai's second visit to Argentina, Carina goes to the Press Conference in order to show him her new recorded material, but to her surprise, she was invited to the soundcheck and also to stay and take part onstage with the band. Due to her performance and a good exchange of ideas with the group, she was asked to play once more on friday night on 21st, at the Gran Rex Theatre, improvising a guitar duel. After that, in june, she presented herself with her instrumental band and the Lunatycas in a clinic display at Promusic Auditorium. Later that same year she also made several layouts for the Music Market cycle, at Buenos Aires Center Loft. In 1998, she is invited to give a live clinic for the cable program: Musical Aid (Vicente Lopez). In August 1998, Carina and her group took part in the second show ”Buenos Aires no duerme”. It was the last saturday, giving a closing to the event, they played for 2000 people. On september 29th 1998, Paul Gilbert visits Argentina, and gives a clinic at the Theatre Down Town. Nearing  the end, Paul called a few guitar players to the stage, among them was Carina. They all performed with Paul and jamming of one of his songs. In January 1999, Carina begins to work on her second CD “Mundo Interior”and it was edited independently in mid-2000. Soon after, she put forward a clinic with her instrumental group and also with Lunatycas for Ibanez guitars presentation, introducing as well the first advances of her new album. In the same year, Carina goes to Los Angeles to visit Steve Vai. Once at his studio in Hollywood, she handles him part of her new album material. She also has a chance to listen Steve's next project ”The Ultra Zone”. They have kept in touch since then. Carina returns to Buenos Aires to complete her 2nd album “Mundo Interior”. It was oficially released that same year april 14th at a Theatre in Buenos Aires. Afterwards, she took part in a live event at “Electroshow” with her instrumental group. Together with the “Mundo Interior” release, Carina works on the mixing and finishing the master record of the first album of her band, Lunatycas, which was released in early 2001 on a independent label. The band displayed their show in different places across Buenos Aires state.
There is a fact that made a change in Carina's life, it was the moment when Steve Vai asked her to join him onstage. This opened new doors for her, the press took notice of her talents since then. Her interviews have come out in several local magazines: Madhouse, Epopeya, El Corte, Power Music, El Biombo, Contrapunto, Musiquero, El ojo del Musico, Music Shop, and also in Europe magazines like Guitarrista and Guitarra Total  (Spain), Metal Hammer, Guitar player, etc. In september 2000, Carina went to Los Angeles, where she organized a band with local musicians and made several presentations at the Baked Potato. She went over to Steve Vai's Studio where she began to work on her new record “Transmission” at The Mothership. Carina took her time with the new album, recording and mixing. She decided she would return the next year to go on with it and finish it off, supported by Steve Vai and his people. By december, Carina joined Steve Vai's South American tour. She went to Santiago (Chile) and Argentina where Steve gave three concerts at the Gran Rex Theatre in Buenos Aires. Steve invited Carina once more to play along with him onstage, ”I would love to”, the last shows on Sunday, December 10th. While Carina was in Los Angeles, she met Linda McDonald as the “Phanton Blues”drummer who asked Carina to accompany her at the recording of an album that, together with figures like Marty Friedman, Paul Gilbert, Vinnie Moore, Steve  Morse, between others, would be a tribute for Jason Becker, which should be edited on July, on his behalf. In 2002 in Argentina, Carina was on the early stages of her new project “Cuerdas Vitales”, together with “Transmission”, which was half way recorded. Finally,”Cuerdas Vitales” was edited on March the 15th (Carina's birthday) 2003. It's an instrumental album, where she performs rock together with important figures like Walter Giardino (Rata Blanca), Claudio Marciello (Almafuerte), Ricardo Lew (Astor Piazzola), Daniel Telis (Alianza), Diego Mizrahi, Marcelo Roascio (Dr.Rock), Hugo Méndez, Ariel Thin (he produced the album with Carina) and Carlos Campos. It was produced by Carina and under Steve Vai's record label “Favored Nations” (Pro-found music). Carina was called to take part in a homage CD for Hermetica, performing “Tu eres su seguridad” (Ricardo Iorio). Carina on guitars and Monica Rodriguez on vocals. Recently, Carina edited “Rock Vital”, it's a clinic which is in Video and CD-ROM. In May 2003 she was called to the program (TV show) Music Expert, that was leaded by Diego Mizrahi (musician and guitar player), in channel 7 and Music Country. On August the 9th 2003, she had the chance to share stage with Almafuerte, the most important heavy band in Argentina, at Cemento. On August the 11th the same year, Carina was the winner of the International Contest organized in U.S. (Los Angeles), by the None Radio (Rich Pike, Steve Vai's assistant and Mike Kineally). She was chosen among many participants from all around the world. The election was  determined by a jury and radio listeners. Carina got most of the votes. The award is an Endorsement from Emerald Acoustic Guitars. So after that, Carina was an Emerald Guitars artist. In October 2003, Carina finally finished “Transmission” (mix and master recording), her 4th CD at The Mothership, in Los Angeles. During the three months that Carina was in Los Angeles, she could make real one of her dreams: with Steve Vai and Neil Citron's support. Also she could put together a band called Little Angel and performed at a few clubs in Hollywood like “The Gig” and “The Joint” (december 26th/2003 –January/2004). The album has important participations: Jennifer Batten on “Awake” (solo-guitar) and Lito Vitale on “Ki” (piano). The album was released on May 2004 (independent release). Carina was invited to go along in several G3 concerts tour (Steve Vai/Joe Satriani/Yngwie Malmsteen). In Argentina, Carina took part with her band in Lito Vitale's TV Show called “Ese amigo del alma”, which is filmed at the ND/Ateneo Theatre and was broadcasted by America TV Channel 2 on Friday May 28th at 00:30hs. Not long ago (in August), Carina was called by Leon Gieco to play along with his band as a guest. She was among the group on a long tour through Argentina: Caseros, La Plata, Cordoba, Rosario, Mendoza, La Pampa, Uruguay, etc, and in a big Festival called “Quilmes Rock Festival” (Ferro Stadium, Sunday, October the 3rd). Also, at Villa Maria Festival (Cordoba), Cosquin Rock (Cordoba) and more. She also played together with Leon Gieco and other bands to conmemorate 100 years Argerich Hospital (benefic show, for Garraham Hospital), in Ocober, Saturday 30th which was broadcasted by Channel 7 in Argentina. Carina received a call to take part at “El Show de Dalma” (Diego Maradona's daughter), where she played two songs in October the 26th as closing. It was broadcasted through Boca TV (Cable Channel).
At present Carina is performing and giving clinics and concerts all through the country and USA and Europe. She was at the Namm Convention representing the Emerald Acoustic Guitars last january 2005, in Anaheim. She was on tour with Leon Gieco and with her own music in Europe and USA the following months. She has edited her 5th album “INTUICION”, released in july of 2005. Also she played for a couple of shows with her band, open for RATA BLANCA (a very famous heavy band of Argentina) in Buenos Aires during the years 2005 and 2006. She got the sponsor of Carvin in California during 2006, she did some gigs in L.A “Electric Fuzz” (2007). Her new album (the sixth one) was recorded at The Motherhsip studios of Steve Vai, in Los Angeles, California. The album has the participation of great guitarrists like Frank Gambale and Scott Henderson.
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