Gonna write your next hit!

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: I'm working on 3 projects: my soloist career as Jay Ribera, my band called Santa Mónica, and my songwriting career, alongside artists from all over the world.

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

A: Compromise. I'm gonna feel and work in your project as if it was my own.

Q: What do you like most about your job?

A: Sharing art. Art is the most beautiful thing in the world, and music is a very important part of art. So when you make music and share it with an audience, you are sharing art.

Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

A: Do you take seriously your project? Do you want to be successful with what you do? Is this just a hobby?

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

A: Check their work. Explore their credits, their music, read reviews... but also trust. People that have a listing in SoundBetter probably have the dream of becoming a successful worker in the music industry. They want to live from what they make in music, so most of them want and need to give you a very professional result. So yeah, check their work, but also trust in them.

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

A: They'd be a microphone, a computer, an audio interface, a XLR cable, and a phone.

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

A: I'm publishing music professionally since 2019, but I write songs and love music since I was a kid. When I was just a child, I felt something in my soul that told me making music gonna be my main goal in life.

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: I'd say urban-classic. And yeah, that's contradictory, but I feel my style lives between the daily basis and epic situations.

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

A: I'm a Venezuelan songwriter, so working with Elena Rose (who is a Venezuelan songwriter too) would be an incredible experience, since her is one my biggest references of what a successful songwriter should be.

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: Let your spirit be free. Music is art, and art lives from experiences, feelings, histories. Feel free when you are creating a song, that's the way you gonna make something special and unique.

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

A: Pop, reggaeton, rock, funk, R&B... those are the main genres which I feel comfy working with, but I can develop myself in as many genres as you can imagine.

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: Songwriting. I love to write songs, and that's my main goal of life: communicate feelings, thoughts, histories, and much more through music.

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: I bring originality. I love to think out of the box, see what's out there and mix it with the things that I already have. Every song is a unique way to communicate something.

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: I like to explore and know the universe of my client: their vision, their style, their genres, their history... Once I know my client and their thoughts about a work, I put hands ready to work on it.

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: Right now I'm working with my Rode NT-1 microphone, my Universal Audio Volt 2 interface, my MacBook Pro computer and Ableton Live 11.

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

A: Elena Rose, Charlie Puth, Édgar Barrera, Servando Primera, Beto Montenegro