Alfredo Olivas

Alfredo Olivas is a singer, songwriter, and accordionist of regional Mexican music. He began playing accordion and writing songs when he was only nine. By the time he was a teenager he had written well over 1,000 tunes and released dozens of singles on an independent label before signing to Fonovisa at 16. His first single for the label, "Las Vacaciones del Jefe," instantly became a hit for its lyrical invention in portraying a cartel boss enjoying a spate of clean living in a nice hotel. The video got hundreds of thousands of hits and the track gained the upper reaches of di...