Asdru Sierra

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Asdrubal "Asdru" Sierra is a gifted musician, composer, and singer/songwriter. He is the co-founder of the multi-Grammy Award-winning, multi-cultural, multi-genre band, Ozomatli, spending the last 20 years as the group’s lead vocalist, trumpet and keyboardist.

Asdru and composer/pianist Anthony Marinelli met in 2006 when they collaborated on a remix album with trumpet and music label legend, Herb Alpert. Since then, these two composers and songwriters have collaborated on independent feature films, commercials (Jaguar), and songwriting as well as performing off and on as a duo.

Asdru has also collaborated with legendary producer, songwriter and guitarist Dave Stewart from Eurythmics. The two began songwriting which led to various other musical collaborations including meeting Cindy Gomez, whom is now in production to finish an international jazz trio record with Gomez and Anthony Marinelli.

Apart from Ozomatli, and in collaboration with producer and director Balthazar Getty’s Purplehaus Music, Sierra made a powerfully unique album, "Abstrakto," being produced by Getty. Described as a "cinematic, alternative, Latin sound.”

As part of Ozomatli, Sierra garnered two Best Latin Rock/Alternative Album of the Year Grammy Awards, One Latin Grammy, three Latin Billboard Awards, three Alma Awards, a BMI Songwriting Award, and a Latin Spirit Award, awarded for humanitarian efforts.

When not performing internationally with Ozomatli, Sierra is composing scores for numerous feature films, television shows, big budget commercials and video games.

Sierra has composed for a commercial for KIA on spanish speaking TV called “Gran Noche.”

Multiple feature films featuring director Richard Zelniker, actors Billy Gardel, Michael Beach, Jaime McShane, Christopher Titus and more.

His most recent film score for movie “El Roomie” a ROMCOM film for Mexican cinema has been very successful! It features up and coming stars Jose Eduardo Derbez (son of famed Eugenio Derbez) and Fiona Palomo.

His career collaborations are vast and impressive and include greats like Carlos Santana, Maná, Black Eyed Peas, Dave Stewart, A.B. Quintanilla and Los Kumbia Kings, Salvador Santana with their RMXKNZ and the band called Making Movies.

Having travelled the world with his Latin rock, hip hop, world, fusion, funk-style music, Sierra’s performance highlights are as eclectic as his music having performed at SXSW, Coachella, multiple events and symphony collaborations with several prominent orchestras like the New York Pops Symphony and Boston Pops Symphony Orchestras.

With Ozomatli, Asdru was the Musical Director, composer and arranger for Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias' Stand Up Revolution television series, composed Fluffy’s first animated cartoon shorts, and also as the first band to speak at TED conference.

Amongst touring the world, has also been a Cultural Ambassador for the US State Department with Ozomatli for the past decade. Traveling the Middle East, African Continent, India, Asia, Eastern Europe, and many other places in the world doing his best to represent our country by exchanging musical knowledge and learning from other cultures through music and art.