Part of my success with urban bachata is reinventing yourself as an artist and continuing to give people different kind of fusions, mixing up the elements and concepts without changing the beat.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.
As a composer, I'm basically trying to represent myself through my music in an honest way.
What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done.
I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms.
There are artists, true performers that have come before me who have been a big inspiration to me. I hope I do the same for others.
I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime.
I really feel like I've written my most effective music in the instrumental realms.
People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the names I see related to my music are great musicians.
All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.'
I really didn't try to make an effort to make urban music, but I am a product of my inspirations.