I was born in 1980 into a family of musicians; my grandmother was a pianist and my grandfather played the oboe, but he spent most of his time composing and conducting a wind band; so I grew up listening to pasodobles and classical music.

My grandfather tried to teach me to read music from the age of four, but it wasn’t till I was seven years old that I felt confident to ask him to teach me to play the piano. Since that day I can’t remember anything that made me happier than playing the piano. I always tried to copy everything I heard, and one of my first memories is working hard on reproducing Asturias after listening to a record by Alicia de la Rocha.

After a few years of being taught at home I entered the conservatoire. There I made some of my best friends and I learnt great things from my teachers. Studying the works of Albéniz, Falla and Granados made me go deeper into Spanish folklore and traditional Flamenco, and I also got to know Bach, Bartók, Skrjabin, Prokofiev, Ravel, Debussy and Stravinsky, from whose works I’m mainly influenced.

But there was something else on my mind: fascinated by my father’s jazz records, I just wanted to reproduce this sound, and that’s how I discovered major sevenths. From this moment my life changed radically. My friends at the conservatoire supported me in my investigations providing me with jazz scores, and more or less by chance I became part of the Big Band at the conservatoire. During the four years working with the band I had the opportunity to extend my knowledge of Swing, Latinjazz and Funk.

Other musical influences are sources as diverse as Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Guns and Roses, Iron Maiden Nirvana, Mano Negra, Extremoduro, The Beatles, etc.

I had the good fortune to be advised by great musicians, some of whom I would like to mention here:
Ernesto Rocío, Antonio Sánchez, Gerardo López Laguna, Guillermo González, Fernando Puchol, Marta Maribona, Pilar Bilbao, Javier Darías, Enrique Rueda, Antonio J. Flores, Alfonso Romero, Peter Zack, Tony Reedus, Eduard Simons, Santi Navalón, Chano Domínguez, Nikky Illes, Mike Ph. Mosman, Greg Hopkins, Pete Churchill, Nya Linn, Francisco Blanco “Latino”, David Pastor, Jordi Farrés Tomás.