DJ Alfredo, Ibiza Club Legend, Dies at 71

Influential Ibiza club legend DJ Alfredo has died. He was 71 years old.

News of his death was confirmed by Club Amnesia, where he had a residency DJing in the 1980s, on Tuesday, Dec. 24.

"Dear Alfredo, Thank you for the nights and beats we shared together. Your music and vision shaped the sound of Balearic Beat and the soul of Amnesia. So many memories were made through your energy, your legacy will live on our dancefloor forever. You will never be forgotten. Rest in peace, Alfredo. The Amnesia Family," they wrote on Instagram.

No cause of death has been revealed, however, in 2021, it was reported that Alfredo had experienced a stroke, and a fundraiser was launched in March 2024 to help him with medical costs, per Mixmag.

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Born Alfredo Fiorito in Argentina in 1953, he moved to Paris in 1976 before setting roots down in Ibiza. While there, he worked in retail and began honing his DJ skills at a bar.

“A guy I knew who had a club called Amnesia decided to go to Thailand,” Alfredo told The Guardian in 2007. “He gave me the keys and said I was in charge … We opened at 3 a.m. and went on until midday, so people would come down after the other clubs shut.”

Throughout his career, Alfredo earned credit for helping shape dance music and Ibiza's eclectic sound. In the late '80s, DJs like Paul Oakenfold, Danny Rampling and Nicky Holloway attended some of his sets and inspired U.K. club nights like Shoom.

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“In England at that time, clubs only played one type of music, and London was full of attitude,” Oakenfold, 61, told The Guardian in 2007. “But at Amnesia you had 7,000 people dancing to Cyndi Lauper. Total freedom.”

Alfredo notably had an inherent non-hierarchical impact on the dance scene at Amnesia.

"The people and the music made it," he told The Guardian. "You'd get a young guy talking to an old person - and listening to each other. There were no sexy women showing their bum. Well, there was, but they'd be in the middle of the dancefloor. Everybody was part of the place."

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