Joseph

He was born in guatemala city, on february 10th in 1981, sice he was 7 years old, he had a big interest in music, his first teacher was his father, he played bass and guitar and played with a band in guatemala city called LIFE, his mother was one of the first teachers of music too, she was a singer of another band in this contry as well. Since he was 10 year old he started to study calssic piano with a teacher of music at his school, and one of his friends gave him a disc of MICHAEL W. SMITH and he started to study michael´s music; When he was 16 he continued his studies of classic guitar with a professional classic guitar teacher, who studied in germany at the conservatoty of that country. When he was 17 years old he finished the high-school and he continued his studies of music fulltime....he gave clases of piano and guitar in guatemala city. When he was 19 he had an audition to can give clases in one of the most important music schools of guatemala called STUDIOS MUSE, over there, he continued his studies of rock, jazz, pop and music production, and when he had this oportunity to enter to this school, he gave all to be a winner, and it was right, he was a winner. It was very importat to him, because he met 2 of the most important guitar players of guatemala city, KENNETH AND BLUESJOEL, they played in a contemporary band very important in his country called SEBNA. There, he started to study music of JOE SATRIANI, LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT, CREED(specially Mark Tremonti´s guitars) and many others. After it he continued his studies with many books of harmony and technique from BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC, and some books from Joe satriani, other books of jazz and rock to keyboard and guitar, Toby Mac's music and some proyects of The Wizadz of OZ. After, he continued studying music production with KENNETH (producer of studios muse in guatemala city), he was his first teacher on it. After it, he started to have oportunities to work on music production, he has done many proyects with many bands and many musicians in that country. He has been in many concerts with very important musicans like:REX CARROL (guitar player of white cross),MARCOS WITT, HERIBERTO HERMOSILLO(torre fuerte,semilla de mostaza), ANDY HUNTER( DJ from england and producer of delirious, mutemath and matrix reloaded's trailer) and many others. He has participated in Kenneth's proyect called SIENTO LA VIDA (I feel the life), MASTER RIFF by Bluesjoel, It was an instructional DVD to guitar playes, music to spots and programs to one of the most important radios in guatemala city, SHOCK 105.3 FM and many others. Now a days, he's producing for bands and proyects that will be heard in guatemala and many other countries too. But over all, he says: All my dreams and my whole life is in God's hands and all that I want and all that I need is in him.