Frank Portuondo Ortiz

Frank Portuondo Ortiz played bass on the Tim Finn & Phil Manzanera album Caught By The Heart


A Cuban based in London Guitar and Bass player highly skilled in many styles of music but mostly in Cuban and Latin one.

Music has been his entire life since he started the music carrier at the age of 9 years old, spending the next 13 years studying in several Art Schools ending up in the most prestigious one in Cuba: the “ Higher Institute of Art” in Havana. He became a performer almost at the very beginning of his studies, playing with lots of bands, being involved in lots of music projects, recordings, festivals, sharing stages with well-known Cuban artist and international artist all along of his carrier to the present day.

Passionate about arranging, producing, composing, developing new skills both in instrument and in many other things related to music and art in general

Frank Portuondo Ortiz is credited on the following Roxy Music and Solo Albums