I was born in Caracas, and my first memory is being in front of the record player for hours, fascinated by how songs magically changed my mood. While Santa could not bring the guitar I asked for every year, I devoured all the books that he offered. Just hours later after buying a guitar with my first salary, I wrote a song, and to this date, that is what I do.
Early 2000s I got a scholarship to continue my studies in Manhattan. Spent decades learning classical music by day, while playing Latin American music by night. Somehow I ended up making a living out of it, recording in all sorts of music styles, touring five continents, writing and arranging a lot of music for film, tv, and theater. At some point in the 2010s moved to Mexico City first, and then Los Angeles.
Once here, I did not even know where the line of aspiring composers was to put myself last, but miraculously, I have worked in 50+ projects, including Encanto, Bardo, Nyad, A Quiet Place, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, My Life with the Walter Boys, etc. After working for great composers, I am now writing under my own name (a funny one, but hey, “Bimbo” means “baby”).
I can not get credit for the music I write, because it comes from God. It has a lot of rhythm, -noticeable or not but it always does-, because I am from the Caribbean. It uses live instruments, from a single voice to a whole orchestra, because I believe in the truth of a player's performance. It tells a story, with or without lyrics, because my mother is a poet.
The music I write wants to magically change your mood, too. Welcome!
“Fuses rhythms, writes film scores, assembles impromptu orchestras and combines dissimilar artists. His name is everywhere in the most atypical projects”