José Alfredo "Joselo" Rangel Arroyo: (guitar, vocals) is a member of the most renown Mexican rock band, Café Tacvba also spelled Café Tacuba. Formerly graphic design students, Rubén, Joselo and Quique design the covers for the albums. Joselo spent the first 9 years of his life in Minatitlán, Veracruz, until his family moved to Mexico D.F. were 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 pasion. While in college he met a person with a peculiar voice and extravagant ideas: Albarrán. They became best friends and with his brother Quique and Beto they formed a band called Alicia Ya No Vive Aquí (a tribute to Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore). Later on, with the arrival of Del Real the band became Café Tacvba with Rangel playing electric guitar, acoustic guitar and vocals. After 13 years with the band Rangel decided 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. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.