Music

I started playing music when I was eight years old. After having a blast playing soprano recorder in my elementary school music class, I had the tremendous privilege of being asked to audition for my school’s band. I learned to play alto saxophone and moved on to tenor saxophone.

When I was thirteen, I decided to learn how to play guitar, like everybody else. My good friend Arnoldo Alfaro Cruz told me to play bass instead, a piece of advice I’m still indebted to him for. I had my first ever bass lesson with Abel Guier, best known for his work with Gandhi. Years later, I saw him use a beer bottle slide in a concert with Parque en el Espacio, a trick I would end up using with my own band, Gauss.

I picked up guitar at 23 while living in Vancouver, Canada, for the very simple reason that I wanted to write my own songs and quickly realized that bass is a somewhat problematic songwriting instrument. I’m currently studying jazz theory to expand my range on this instrument.