Bass Musician Magazine - SPECIAL August 2013 Latin Issue | Page 62
Diving right in... Why the bass
felt the bass chose me.
over any other instrument?
First of all, please let me thank
How did you learn to play
you and BMM for featuring me in
bass?
this very important Anniversary
I’m a fully self-taught & rebel
Edition dedicated to Latin
musician, but there’s a reason
American Bass Players. It’s a
for that. As many people know,
pleasure and an honor to share
I was born in Santiago de Chile,
these pages with some of the
my father is an engineer and my
greatest and most respected
mother is an actress. I started on
colleagues in Latin American
bass and in music from ‘absolute
Bass History.
zero’ at age 22.
Why bass? From a rational
I had almost finished my
perspective I really can’t explain
studies at the University to
why I play the bass over any
become a Physical Education
other instrument, but I think
teacher and Kung Fu instructor,
this happens because a deep
having studied Martial Arts since
and real feeling can never be
I was 13. After graduation, I had
explained. How can you explain
been planning to move to China
the love you feel for your children to live and continue my Martial
or your parents? It just happens.
Arts studies, but six months
The first time I had the
before obtaining my degree in
opportunity to see and hear
PE, I quit school. The decision
a bass in a live situation, that
coincided with my first ‘close
experience twisted my heart and
encounter’ with the bass and
my guts; in fact, I always say that I wanted to start playing and
on that very moment I felt that I
studying immediately, mostly
didn’t really choose the bass, I
because I felt that I had lost 22
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