Juan de la Fuente Alcón (Madrid, 1982) trained as a percussionist at the Escuela de Música Creativa in Madrid. Since then he has specialized in traditional music, curious to explore the rhythmic repertoire of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America, as well as the influences of African and Eastern rhythms, and in working with groups, interested in the collective potential that this suggests and facilitates.
He also studied historical percussion with master Pedro Estevan, percussionist of Jordi Savall.
He has led several percussion ensembles, as part of artistic, creative and educational projects where the diversity of knowledge, cultures and paths can serve as a stimulus to musical creation and sharing, including Ethno Catalonia and Ethno Portugal (Associação PedeXumbo) and Acorde Maior (Village Underground). He produced and played with Martina Quiere Bailar (Madrid), with original compositions for folk dance, strongly influenced by traditional music from Central Europe and Iberia, and is currently working with Sete Lágrimas, an ancient music group, with Fado Violado, on a journey between the Fado and Flamenco, and with singer-songwriter Aníbal Zola.
In 2017, he founded the Ensemble of Ethnic Percussion in Porto.