Bio

Ignacio “Iggy” Elisavetsky was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His first recording gig was at age 15 as a guitar player for the seven piece band reminiscent of Edgard Winter White Trash’ “Caballo Vapor.”

At age 16, he joined the Jazz Fusion band “Arco Iris” (Rainbow) filling in the shoes of now renowned Composer, multi Oscar and Grammy winner Gustavo Santaolalla (Broke Back Mountain, Babel, 21 Grams).

Iggy moved to the US and later joined Alejandro Lerner’s Band to go on their South American Tour.

After the tour, he traveled to New York to co-produce and play on Alejandro Lerner’s “Algo que decir” album. Iggy had the chance later to work with seasoned producer and engineer Humberto Gatica on another of Lerner’s project “Amor Infinito.”

Thanks to the early friendship with Alejandro Lerner, both setup their home base and a recording studio in Los Angeles.

Iggy and Alejandro started a song writing team and continued working on the next Lerner’s album (“Buen Viaje”) that Iggy played, recorded and mixed. This project earned a Grammy nomination for Alejandro at the Latin Grammy’s. The Album went “gold” and was a major hit in Latin America.

Iggy also wrote the music for multiple short films directed by Carl Hansen for the Los Angeles 48 Hours Film Festival. These films won multiple awards.

Iggy continued writing music with Daniel Hamuy for a Multimedia Project in Spain for the Metro Museum that was built on an abandoned metro station from the early 1900’s that was completely restored to its glory days.

Iggy contributed playing and mixing on multiple Fabian’s Jolivet projects like “The Congo Square #1 and #2”, “Maya”, “The Electroroots”, Paul Nicoll two cd projects and working with Andres Calamaro on multiple songs.

After a few CD projects and touring with Alejandro, Iggy became friends with composer and arranger Eduardo Del Barrio (Earth Wind and Fire, Herb Alpert, Stan Getz, Caldera, Dianne Reeves) helping Eduardo with Engineering and music software support.

The friendship resulted in Iggy recording for Herb Alpert 2013 “Steppin’ Out” CD project that won him a Grammy for “Best Pop Instrumental” category.

Iggy and Daniel Hamuy also wrote the music for two of comedian / actor John Leguizamo’s TV / Netflix specials, Tales From a Ghetto Klown and Latin History for Morons, The Road To Broadway Iggy mixed both specials.

Iggy worked as mixing engineering and playing on two CD projects for soulful British artist Tom Lowe (American Idol Season 6) with Mitchel Delevie (Gino Vanelli, Smokey Robinson) as a producer. Some of that music is featured on the “Projects” section of the website.

Iggy is currently finishing adding some more music and mixing a one hour documentary to be presented for the TV and festivals in Europe, US and Latin America called Tupamaro: Urban Guerrillas. Directed by Martin Markovits, it is a very revealing and crude documentary about Venezuela’s transition from Chavez to Maduro.

Recently, Iggy has worked on the latest CD project for Gilby Clarke (Guns & Roses) mixing most of the CD project.

Also working with a great Prog Rock “Superband” called “Deaton LeMay Project” (DLP) Mixing and Mastering the whole project.