Bass Musician Magazine - SPECIAL August 2013 Latin Issue | Page 117

ve not been explored fully on the bass instrument; that gives us a

perspective of what we say musically, and that’s the important thing,

ou go inside your roots, that’s when you get the universality.

lking about the music business, it’s a fact that it is more difficult for a

born in Latin America to get some places in the industry, but is also a

t the industry is reinventing itself, so we just have to work, make music

d new ways of sharing it.
MM What are your main musical and bass influences?

RP Jaco, Sal Cuevas, Fania, Abe Laboriel,
Pat Metheny, Herbie Hancock, Victor Wooten,
Ensamble Gurrufio, Weather Report, Rubén
Blades, Juan Luis Guerra, Yellow Jackets, and
many, many others.
MM How do you define the music style you play?
P I always liked all the music styles - Salsa, Jazz, Jazz fusion,

enezuelan music, Merengue, Pop, Church music, etc., and I feed my

musical intuition from everything I listen to and play; no prejudgment.
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