“My artistic journey, deeply inspired by African music, is an ongoing quest to create, through music and dance, an open platform for people to come together as one, regardless of class, gender or origin. In music, we are community”.

Cortega has earned a reputation for bringing Africa-influenced heat to the dancefloor. Since 2006, teaming up with DJ Underdog, he played an active role in pushing the afrobeat and afro house sound in the US. He has performed in major clubs on the East coast such as Output, Cielo, Eighteenth Street Lounge or U Street Music Hall. Since 2010, Cortega moved to the Continent – first in Nairobi, then Dakar and now Maputo – where ElectrAfrique, the collective and event series he co-founded, took root and grew strong. ElectrAfrique is a celebration of creativity, energy, and dance through pan-African electronic music.

Cortega has toured in over twenty countries, performing in African capitals from Dakar to Johannesburg, Addis, Accra or Abidjan and many places in between. He took his music overseas to Bogota, New York, Miami, Berlin, Paris, Port-au-Prince, Montreux and Mumbai.

Cortega is a co-founder of “Everyday Afrique”, a partnership between Everyday People, OkayAfrica and ElectrAfrique, which has given birth to one of New York’s hottest diaspora-centric parties. Cortega played at several major events such as Central Park New York’s Summerstage, Montreux Jazz Festival, or Miami’s Winter Music Conference among others.

Over the course of his career, he has shared the stage with the likes of Wizkid, Black Coffee, Boddhi Satva, Tony Allen, Cheikh Lo, Mafikizolo, Uhuru, Nickodemus, Rancido, Black Motion, Heavy K, Guts, Spinna, DJ Satelite, Marfox, Just A Band and Sauti Sol, to name a few.