How do Toontrack’s products help in your creative process?Īs a piano player, when I use EZkeys I hardly use the system to play the chords etc., but the sounds are fantastic and I often find myself gravitating to the EZkeys electric pianos. That was my main source of income during my early days in NYC.įor your own productions, you’re a user of both EZkeys and Superior Drummer 3. I remember there used to be a lot of salsa clubs in the Bronx with live bands. When I first moved to NYC the Latin music scene was very vibrant, but after 9/11 it really quiet down and I don’t think it really got back up. What is the scene like for Latin music in “The City”? You grew up in Havana, Cuba, and now reside in New York.

I was playing both until I was about 16 years old. When I started playing the piano, I realized a deep connection with the instrument and it came to me a lot easier than the saxophone. My first instrument was the saxophone (at the conservatory), but luckily for me everyone that enters the music system in Cuba must learn some piano.

How come you ended up playing the piano? Were you always drawn to this specific instrument? Especially 1950s and 1960s jazz recordings of people like Miles Davis, Bill Evans and Clifford Brown were immensely influential to my development as an artist. At 14 is when I realized that this was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life and really concentrated my studies in jazz.

But I didn’t find the passion for it until I was about 14 years old. I started music at the Manuel Saumell Music Conservatory in Havana at age nine. When and how did you discover your passion for music? This EZkeys MIDI pack will give you the essential chord progressions and melodies to craft anything from traditional Latin and Cuban songs to spicing up your pop or rock tracks with some of the genre’s bright, pastel-like colors. Expect to be transported from wherever you may be in the world – straight to the lively streets of Havana for some its characteristic mambo and cha-cha-cha, through the wide-stretched mountains of Oriente for some son montuno or to a booming club for some traditional salsa. This collection of EZkeys MIDI seeks to scratch the surface of this massive musical universe and presents an overview of the most dominant and distinctive styles, in particular those of Cuban origin. It just has its own harmonic color, unique expression and rhythmic stride that can’t be mistaken. It literally only takes a couple of chords to identify a Latin musical piece. Even though the music of Latin America is more fractioned by subgenres and regional variations than arguably any other style of music, it truly speaks with a unanimous voice.

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