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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