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Francisco Paz Patch Pachi-Poo

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Francisco Jose Paz Barahona or "Pachi Paz" Known also as Patch,Was Born in San Jose Costa Rica. At the young age of nine, Pachi was granted a scholarship to attend the Conservatory of the University of Costa Rica, under the wings of 1 st violin Walter Field. Then in 1986 Pachi moved to Hollywood California to attend the “Musicians Institute” where he had the opportunity to work with producers Bob Demarco and K. Rogers Jr. The work was released by CBS (Sony) in a compilation album called “Sol y Rock”. Then Pachi published the album “DEMOS” which despite of entering the charts, received no support from the media (at that time Latin Pop was unheard of.)It was then that Patch,decided to compose and produce music for television in the United States. With great success after a few years he had placed hundreds of musical pieces as a Gohst writer, published by Paramount Television for hundreds of TV stations around the globe, you can still hear Patch’s music on the National primetime TV shows Real TV, Dr Phil, The Insider, and Entertainment Tonight among others.In the year 2000 "Patch" moved to Chicago, This time composing and producing music for video games. And in this field Pachi has worked in more than 20 games and patented a few inventions regarding high technology innovations.Pachi also decided to start writing and producing music for the Radio. With big success, thanks to the D.J “Rooper” Alvarado, “Solo Pienso en ti” was published, and it entered the top 10 residing in #7 for several weeks in Radio Uno Costa Rica.Then Pachi Released “El Golazo” inspired on the Soccer Games during the Korea, Japan World Cup in 2002. The song became an instant top 10 Hit. Residing in the privileged #1 for five weeks.Pachi..s first English performance was on the song “Radio King D.J.”The song was featured as the “Super hit of the week” and climed to # 4 on the top 10 in Radio Uno Costa Rica.3/06 Pachi Just finished 2 years of touring the world with Engelbert Humperdinck as a Percussionist and back vocals. 11/07 Patch Just accepted a position as a Composer / Sound Designer for the #1 Coin-up video game company in the US Incredible technologies responsable for the Hit games "Golden Tee""SilverStrike" and "Bags" among others.