About Me
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Venezuelan by birth, Italian-Venezuelan by blood and German by heart...
Current bands:
- TWO OF US: Here in Germany I play guitar and sing with my friend Dmitriy Voronin in acoustic duo format. We cover Beatles and classic rock but also play some songs of ours and the "two of us" have been composing more lately. We look for a drummer and a bass player to complete a band but so far also plan to maintain the duo format in parallel.
- CHANGING BEHAVIOUR: Still a project in the works. This is also a sort of acoustic duo (although surprises might rise) with me on guitar and vocals and my friend Jose Benenati, ex Aeternus Sum bass player, who lives in Spain. I have already composed music for this and some home recording basis have been made. Hopefully, something might be presented next year. In the meantime, you can check the covers we did. Two of them are posted above: That's Why It Hurts by Sylvan and Nebe by Lenka Dusilová.
My bio:
I was born in Caracas, Venezuela a 20th of April. I have been involved in several Venezuelan bands, especially Aeternus Sum (my more personal progressive rock project) and Parkas (2004-2007). I have also worked on radio shows like Kultura Rock, El Idioma del Rock (The Language of Rock) and Evolución (Evolution, web radio).
Besides, I have a Bachelor of Arts degree in Cultural Promotion, from the Central University of Venezuela and nowadays I live in Germany and study the Master Programme World Heritage Studies in the Brandenburg University of Technology.
Apart from playing music and listening to as much of it as possible, I love travelling, exchanging life experiences with people from all over the world, learning languages, being on the Internet and watching tons of movies.
Thanks for reading this!
Former bands:
ONE DAY (2008): A cover band born to play just one time, and so we did! I played guitar and sang, with my friend and former Aeternus Sum drummer Gildardo González, plus the lead guitarist and bassist from a cover band of his and another guest guitarist playing acoustic. Yes, we were three guitarists on stage although I didn't play the whole time. We rehearsed just the night before playing, with no drums, and then just rocked the party!!!
PARKAS (2004-2007): Sort of symphonic-gothic-metal. The band had been going on for some time before I joined them on second guitar. We were seven musicians: female vocals, keyboards, cello, two guitars, bass and drums. During my time in the band, we accomplished recognition opening for Apocalyptica in Caracas, playing with orchestra violin section at a tribute to Mozart (Mozartfest) and doing acoustic concerts with guest musicians. From this band you can hear "Niña de Trapo" on my player.
ALBAN (2003-2004): With two of the core members of the by then extinct prog Venezuelan band Alban Arthuan, me on guitar and backing vocals, Parkas' keyboardist and guest drummers. We wrote some good songs but never got to play them live, as our only show was on a Pink Floyd tribute, a very important event in Venezuela's concert history nonetheless. From this band you can hear "Danzón N° 2" on my player.
AETERNUS SUM (2000-2003): After a little more than a year playing with Gildardo González on drums, Jose Benenati joined us on bass to conform a prog metal band. Searches for keyboard players and vocalists were unsuccesful, so I had to assume vocal duties and we had to go with no keyboards, which resulted in a rougher sound. We mixed prog with metal and some jazz fusion and traditional Venezuelan music influences. It was hard to fit in the Venezuelan rock scene because we were too light for the metalheads and too heavy for the proggers, but still we managed to play often and release two demos. You can listen to several of our songs on my player.
OVERTHROW PROJECT (1999): This was Jose Benenati's (bass) original band. They contacted me through a common friend because they needed a second guitarist. It was great original stuff with lots of progressive influence but also metal like Megadeth and King Diamond. Our curse was never finding a suitable drummer. The band carried on after I left and Jose remained their bass player until he moved to Spain.
DEMISE (1999): As an attempt to try something different, I joined this Death-Grind metal band as rythm guitarist. I only had two gigs with them. They've had their highs and lows but now (2009) have released their first album.
TRILOGÃA (1998-1999): With no clear musical goal, I was called by the bassist/vocalist of the Venezuelan metal group Kaos to try something different with Gildardo González, whom I met some time before, on drums. The three of us rehearsed at Gildardo's place, mostly classic rock covers, plus some of the bass player's pop compositions. One day jamming, however, a prog song was born, and that's what appealed to Gildardo and me the most. Due to the bassist's lack of English, I started singing those covers in English and for the first time took vocal duties in a band, even if it was partially. We had one gig playing covers, Kaos' songs and our own prog song, which was well received. For our second gig, the bassist didn't show up, neither did he return to rehearsal, no explanation given. That's when Gildardo and me started writing our prog stuff that would become Aeternus Sum in 2000.
MOLOKAY (1998-1999): After trying unsuccesfully to create a band with my own eclectic songs, I joined these guys I had know from before, who mixed thrash influences with some hardcore and other stuff. I was the lead guitarist and backing vocalist and with them I could play a whole concert live for the first time. I left them after two gigs. However, I returned for two more gigs since we remained friends.
KHAFRA (1995-1998): This was my first attempt to have a band with original music, mostly written by myself. My best friend from high school was the singer and also ended up becoming a self taught drummer. We mixed metal with classic rock and some prog stuff, as I didn't want to have a definitive style and just wanted to cover as many bases as possible. Finding committed musicians was extremely hard, so we never managed to have a stable line-up or be ready to play live. I got tired of it and called it quits.
BLIZZARD (1995): My first attempt to play in a band, and my electric guitar playing was still very limited but got better after starting to rehearse with other musicians and being able to hear myself well amplified. We were just a group of kids trying to cover Iron Maiden and other classic heavy stuff to play at parties. We never got to play anyway.
