About Music

My relation with music started when I was really young, because my kindergarten was a “musical” kindergarten and that means that I had to choose an instrument to learn how to play it. So I started playing the guitar when I was 4 years old. I had lessons since I was 13 and I learned a lot about classical music and also lots of songs that I could play with my guitar. My favorite classical composer is Bach.
I Also used to listen to lots of folkloric music and musicians from the “new Chilean song”(my mom and my dad used to listen to that kind of music). I also remember that I had a Café Tacvba cassette, a Mexican group which mix folklore with rock. When I had to finish my guitar lessons (they were just classical compositions) I learned to play the guitar but with chords. For me, it was to discover a whole new world outside classical music: popular music was available with all their chords on internet for me. So I started to listen and to play folkloric music, classic rock, Argentinean rock, bossa nova, etc. Now, I consider myself a big fan of music. I think music makes life funnier and it’s really important for me in lots of different ways. Music can communicate things by using the sounds, by the lyrics or as a complete composition. I would like to recommend you to listen to Jorge Drexler, I really love him. He’s an Uruguayan composer. I like him as a musician and as a writer. His music is really nice; he has really good songs but what I most like about him are his lyrics. I like the way that he sees life, as something where anything can happen but with an optimistic way to view it. I also love Argentinean rock. I think it could be like my favorite kind of music (it’s really difficult for me to choose just one). I like a lot of singers groups as Charly García and all his bands, Fito Páez, Luis Alberto Spinetta and all his bands, Pedro Aznar, Bersuit Bergarabat, etc. I think music is something really important and that it should be cheaper here in Chile. The taxes for buying books and music are so high that it’s almost impossible to buy one of it. At least now we can download music from Internet, but still it’s not free for everyone.