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Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: Logic Pro X Ableton Live 10 Acoustic Piano Fender Guitars Gibson 335 Telecaster American Deluxe and Bass Gretsch Drums Roland Foscusrite RE-20 AKG Sure Rode Yamaha Mixer East West Native Instruments WAVES

Q: What's the biggest misconception about what you do?

A: Creative process could be a pulling and pushing. It is important to feel unattached to ideas in order to keep the intention the music is asking for.

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: It is important to have a clear approach depending on the type of music. Story Telling is different from Dance music, for instance. Sometimes it is a beat or a lyric or a phrase or a melody or a group of chords or an image. So the most important thing to me is to have a clear intention behind the process.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: To be fulfilled by doing it. To share and make friends.

Q: Which artist would you like to work with and why?

A: It's more about the chemestry. Any artist who is really commited is more than welcome.

Q: Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.

A: Songwriting Vocals Guitars

Q: If you were on a desert island and could take just 5 pieces of gear, what would they be?

A: Any kind of drums, any kind of winds, and friends to share a fire and sing along all together.

Q: What was your career path? How long have you been doing this?

A: I believe I started around 20 years ago or so.

Q: Tell us about a project you worked on you are especially proud of and why. What was your role?

A: Back in Latin America where i used to live, I worked with incredible artists. I had my projects back then. One of them it is called Cabezon Key (weird name, right?)

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: My personal project.

Q: Is there anyone on SoundBetter you know and would recommend to your clients?

A: Not Yet.

Q: Analog or digital and why?

A: Both. Because both are extremely fun.

Q: What's your 'promise' to your clients?

A: having a path to walk on.

Q: What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?

A: Most of the time artists that are starting do not know quite well what they want. So, it is about talking about their interests so the goal can come out.

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: What is basically your personal world and what is the place you picture for it.

Q: What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?

A: To know how to have fun.

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: Mutations

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: Start choosing a palette of colors. I mean by that, instrumentation. So the instrument will give you the music.

Q: What type of music do you usually work on?

A: Popular Music

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: Be any kind of music possible, as my limitations permit.

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: I believe empathy it is the most beautiful thing to have. So we can adapt to certain reality and provide the feeling that it has. It is true that our limitations bring a form but also, like an actor, we can be others. I celebrate otherness.

Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?

A: Ismael Rivera, Simón Díaz, Los Lobos, Bad Bunny, Rosalía, Camarón de la Isla, Dubfire, Ali Farka Touré, Tinariwen, James Blake, Huun Huur Tu, Tom Waits, Bob Marley, Chet Baker, Bjork, Beck, Lightning Bolt, The Invisible, Radiohead, Cafe Tacuva, Toru Takemitsu and many many many more