page_title: Café Tacuba
section_title: José Alfredo Rangel Arroyo
hierarchical_section_title: Café Tacuba / Members / José Alfredo Rangel Arroyo
caption_attribution_description: Español: Joselo Rangel del grupo Café Tacuba tomada 08-2003 por fabioj. English: Joselo Rangel of the group Café Tacuba taken 08-2003 by fabioj.
context_page_description: Café Tacuba is a band from Ciudad Satélite, Mexico. The group gained popularity in the early 1990s. They were founded in 1989, before they had the current lineup of Rubén Isaac Albarrán Ortega, Emmanuel del Real Díaz, José Alfredo "Joselo" Rangel Arroyo, and Enrique "Quique" Rangel Arroyo, their friend Roberto Silva played the keyboards for a short period of time. Mexican folk music player Alejandro Flores was for a time considered the 5th tacubo, as he played the violin in almost every Café Tacvba concert for many years. Since the Cuatro Caminos World Tour, Luis "El Children" Ledezma has played the drums in every concert but is not considered an official member of the band.
context_section_description: José "Joselo" Alfredo Rangel, spent the first 9 years of his life in Minatitlán, Veracruz, until his family moved to Mexico DF where he studied industrial design in the UAM.
  During his youth he had various hobbies like comic books and design even though he decided music was his major passion.
  While in college he met a person with a peculiar voice and extravagant ideas: Albarrán. They became best friends and with his brother, Enrique "Quique" Rangel and they formed a band called Alicia Ya No Vive Aquí.
  Later on he started working on a new project called "Cafe Tacuba" with Ruben Albarran on the vocals, Enrique "Quique" Rangel on the bass (contrabajo) and Roberto Silva on the keyboards. Emmanuel del Real took the place of Roberto when he left before the band became famous.
  After 13 years with the band Rangel decided to launch a solo side project. He has released two albums: the first, 2001's "Oso" (Bear), named after Joselo's childhood nickname; the second, titled "Lejos" (Far) in 2005.
  He wrote four books, CRockónicas Marcianas (a compilation of chronicles, 2011), the collection od stories One hit wonder (2015), the novel Los desesperados (2018) and Cuba Stone (2016), a review about The Rolling Stones' concert in Cuba, in collaboration with Javier Sinay and Jeremías Gamboa.
caption: Joselo Rangel
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