Daniel DÃÂaz Fernández is an Argentinian bass player multi-instrumentalist, arranger, and composer known for his work for films and television, along with his fusion of different styles and genres of Argentinian music, jazz and experimental music. He has lived in Paris, France since 1997.
Since moving to France he has collaborated with Juan Carlos Cáceres, on the single Tango Negro, and on the album Toca Tango. Cáceres mentions Diaz in his song "Los Muchachos de ParÃÂs" with the lyrics: <blockquote>"Daniel Diaz y el barba, los muchachos de ParÃÂs."</blockquote>After the 2020-2021 pandemic he focused on his composer and studio work, producing collaborative albums with Argentine percussion player , and music icon .
His last collaboration with Barboza was on the album Souvenirs Panamericanos, which was released in March 2023.
In 1993 he recorded his first album The Years Alone released by North American label Green Linnet/Xenophile Records, with small media coverage. The variety of styles in this album was mentioned by critics.
Diaz played most of the parts (fretted and fretless basses, keyboards, acoustic and electric guitars, percussion, etc.) and included guest appearances of other South American players, such as Ricky Olarte on congas, Manuel Miranda on Sax, flute and Indian flutes, "Pato" Loza on drums, Beto Satragni on bass, Gustavo Paglia on bandoneon, Rikhi Hambra on tabla, and Miguel Angel Amaral on vocals.
He continued this solo career with Segundo Ciclo, recorded in 1997, released by Dutch jazz label Timeless Records in 2002, and Swan Song, released in 2015, always with guest players form around the world. Both albums featured the cosmopolitan jazz-fusion style of the first one.
Since 2005 Diaz has been composing and recording for films, TV and documentaries. He works for French publisher and music library Cezame Music Agency () for whom he composed and recorded more than 250 tracks and released 5 albums alone or in collaboration. Since then he continued his work for films, TV and theatre, releasing hundreds of compositions for different publishers, in France: Cezame Music Agency, and Scoring Pictures/Universal Production Music, in Germany Sonoton GmbH, Music Vine and Indiesonics in England and Pacifica Music and Omnimusic in the USA.
In March 2009, he performed guitars and basses for the soundtrack of the film Undertow composed by Selma Mutal with whom he collaborated in the past, on the album Natural Energies.
In November 2009, he composed and performed the original music for Tennessee Williamsâ Suddenly, Last Summer (Soudain l'été dernier in French) directed by performed at and Theatre des Celestins in France.
In 2012 he attended the Festival De Cannes as original score composer, for the short film Quitte ou Double.
Since 2010 his music has been used on many TV documentaries and films. In 2022 his track "Club Recoleta" from the album Elec' Tango was used on Tom McCarthy's feature film Stillwater.