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Music

I started in music at a young age. By 1976 I started my own band in Los Angeles, CA.
I studied music in L.A. City College. Learned music theory, sight-reading,
music notation and piano. At 19, I wrote my first song:
"Sonreir" a ballad inspired by the love
I have for my oldest daughter

In 1991, I started to record
my own songs with a 4-track recorder, an
Alesis drum machine, and my Roland W-30 workstation synth.
By this time I had a catalog of about 200 songs, which I started to produce.
The first one to be produced, "Palabras" was a joint collaboration with myself and a
good friend of mine, Jorge Alejandro Sanchez. "Palabras" was then chosen by Rogelio Jordan, a local artist, who recorded it in 1993 for WestCoast Recording. I got to hear it on the radio.

I also studied Record Producer and Sound Engineer in Long Beach City College, where I applied all of my knowledge and started producing salsa and merengue music -as
well as pop rock. I finished my education there in 2001,
with the completion of my numero uno CD:
"Tonight, You're Mine"

Reviews from the Music Industry

In 1981 I presented three songs
to Regulo Cortez, Kora's Record owner,
who liked "Palabras" very much. He said he
will see what he could do with that song, although
he didnt have a ballad singer. He ended up choosing my
"Vamos a Rocanrolear" a banda song that the band Koritas
Musical ended up recording with mild success.

In 1990 I worked with Cristian Castro's manager and got to show him
three songs: "Los Dos" "Sigo Amandote" and "Palabras" After two
months of partnership, Cristian Castro fired his manager, and the deal was halted.

Emilio Estefan, gave an interview to a Nationally Televised Program and he stated that his company helped the unknown writers by giving them the chance to produce them and to bring them to the fore-front giving them exposure to the artists. I ended sending him four demo songs ( no, not "Palabras" ) and I got my cassette back, with a note that read: "Crescent Moon Records doesnt accept works from free lancing writers, for we have our own." Go figure !

I contacted Abe Quintanilla III (Selena's brother and producer), with four songs, two salsa songs and two merengues> A day before the first Womens Olympic Gymnastic Competition
in 1996, I had sent them to him wiht the hope that he liked them, -he was
needing merengue songs back then, and surprisingly, at the
start of the Olympic telecast, he called
and asked me that he had to get those
songs he liked them very much. He asked me to send them
ASAP and put a particular note on the envelope so he can get to it.
Two weeks after the fact, he still didnt called me back, and I started calling him
every week. I learned that the envelope never got to him. His wife had taken it, and God
knows what happened with that envelope. Today, I still have a great report with his personal secretary, and I hope he calls me one day.

Marc Anthony is the artist I usually think about when Im writing, I think his style is perfect for my lyrics. When he was at RMM I almost got his manager Sheila to accept some of my songs, but this was the time when Marc was changing Recording Company's and now that hes in Sony, its almost impossible to get to his management team. "No se Como" is one of the many songs I had written for him.

My next step was asking for help. And I chose the man who represents everything to me, carisma, talent, humbleness and professionalism: Juan Gabriel.
After making contact with one of his web page creators, I ended
up e-mailing him. HIs response came rapidly, but being the busy
man he is, I grew impatient as he didnt answer me when i proposed
to work for him as a sound engineer or song producer. We still have
open comunication. Unfortunately he hasn't had time to answer my requests.

Maria Conchita Alonso is another artist that had great comments about my music. She told me to send her my CD but I haven't heard from her anymore.

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