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Being a Salvadoran Artist in the Latin Music Industry
De niño, una de mis cosas favoritas era ver jugar a La Selecta con mi papá.
I don't remember every game, but I do remember always wanting El Salvador to win. It didn't matter who we were playing or whether we were even doing good (we usually weren't lol), whenever La Selecta was on, we watched. Looking back, I think that's where a lot of my pride in being Salvadoran came from. I loved my country before I had ever actually even been there.
What Graduating College Actually Felt Like
I’ve always loved superheroes, I feel like I can relate to them even more now than I could before, because we both live dual lives. They save people, are larger than life, and then blend into society with their personal identities. I perform and sing and dance, and then I go back to my 9-5 to fund my dreams.
It used to be I go back to class and my studies in university, and I was tired of it because I wanted to spend all my time recording and writing songs vs being in class learning about the sales funnel, but I’m out now. I’m a year out and I feel like Peter Parker at the end of No Way Home (big big big spoiler alerts by the way)…
The Artists Who Shaped My Sound
Gente siempre me preguntan qué tipo de música hago, y la verdad… nunca sé cómo explicarlo bien.
My sound comes from a lot of different influences and a lot of different genres. To be honest, I just like combining whatever I think sounds good, because at the end of the day, I’m the one making the music that I myself would like to hear, which is probably why I end up being my own #1 artist on Spotify Wrapped every year lol.
But when I really think about it, I’ve always loved music that could make me feel something, music that tells a story without words, or music that can make me dance without thinking…