Pedro Emanuel Franco Fraticelli (b.1988) is a Puerto Rican electric guitarist, singer-songwriter, theatre producer and composer. Pedro’s work has been performed at Carnegie Mellon School of Drama; Nuyorican Poets Cafe; Casa Cultural Ruth Hernández; University of Puerto Rico; Ateneo Puertorriqueño; The Gallery Inn; Paseo de los Artistas VIP; and the Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico, among others. Also a musician, Pedro is a founder of the Colectivo Simbiosis, Conversaciones Simbióticas podcast, and the Young Artists Concert Series and Young Artists Concert Orchestra. Pedro holds a BA in Musical Composition from the Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico.

Franco-Fraticelli’s compositional work is experimental and sensible to the listener’s conscience constantly switching and merging: musical experimentation with the concert format. Some of his research topics are: “poly-art”, incorporating theatrical, urban and cultural elements (for example reggaetón and Spanish trap), also “folklor boricua”, utilizing the “jíbaro” and the Puerto Rican “cuatro” (national instrument). Blackouts and power generators, among other humoristic peculiarities -and others not so much- from life or what you could call an “odyssey of survival” in Puerto Rico.

Another important topic, that is often used in his musical endeavors, is prioritizing the message, emphasis on being direct and literal, rather than the aesthetics and the musically abstract. This can be seen in his plays dealing with social criticism and protests in general.