Built on the Right Songs
I grew up in Puerto Rico, spending way too many hours in my granddad’s record store — pulling albums off shelves before I could even read the labels. He was a musician too. That record store gave me something most performers spend their whole career chasing: an instinct for which songs actually move people.
Not just the notes — the moment. The song that drops someone back into a memory they thought they’d forgotten. The one that makes a room full of strangers suddenly sing the same words at the same time. That instinct is what I build every setlist around.
“Just keep doing what you’re doing — I love your song selection.”
That’s what guests tell me. They come up ready to make a request and go blank because there’s nothing they want to change. It’s the best compliment I get, and it happens more than you’d think. When I do take requests and I know the song, the reaction is immediate. When someone hears the first chord of exactly what they asked for, the room shifts.
I started performing professionally in 2001. The early years were spent across the East Coast — Maryland, the DC Metro area, and Florida through 2012, including a festival performance in New York with the band I was in at the time. I’ve been based in the Atlanta Metro for the past 15 years, and the depth of that touring background is in every show I play — I’ve performed in front of every kind of crowd, in every kind of room, and I know how to read all of them.
Today I focus primarily on corporate events, private parties, and wedding receptions across Atlanta and North Georgia — the events where the music actually matters and where clients notice the difference between a real professional and someone who just owns a guitar.
