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Thank you very much. You’re very welcome. Thank you for doing what you do. Thanks. So, do you remember the first rhythm or song that make you fall in love with drums? Well, that’s a good question. Uh, I mean, I’ve loved music ever since I was very, very young. I think because my parents loved music so much. They had a big record collection, lots of vinyl, all different types of music.

Uh, so there was always music in my house. My father was always singing. We were always dancing. So, they’re musicians. And yeah, well, they weren’t musicians, but they were but they loved music. Okay. And also I’m half Korean, so there was always uh chopsticks in the house like and I think I used to take little chopsticks and always bang on the the furniture, everything.

Yeah. Tables, uh pillows, everything. So yeah, it goes back as far as I can remember. Okay. So you grew up with a multicultural background. How did Miami uh affect and shape your drumming style? Oh, Miami was very influential for me because I grew up in New Jersey. New Jersey has a lot of culture.

Um, but um when I moved to Miami to study music for college, I was uh deep in the uh Latin culture. Yeah. Um from all all different types from Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican and also Colombian, Venezuelan, uh Peruvian. And here in Mexico is very famous uh to talk about Berkeley or another schools. Why Miami? I think I mean or why did you choose that place to study? Yeah, I think when I was 17 or 18 years old and I wanted to continue learning about music and the drums, there were there are many different schools you can go to. You can go to New York and study

at the Manhattan School of Music or Giuliard or at the time the New School. You can go to Berkeley. You can go to North Texas State. You can go to um Cal Arts, which is in Los Angeles. But Miami was a big school that at the time where a lot of people were going there. It’s um it’s a smaller music program, so there’s not hundreds and hundreds of drummers.

When I went to school there, there were only 50 drummers in Gwenta. So, okay. So, that was good for me. Um so, I got to have a lot of attention from the teachers. I got to play every day with the Latin America. Yeah. And Yeah. And the city. I wanted to go to a I wanted to go to a school that was inside a big city so I could practice in the daytime and at night I can go see music or jam or jam to the bars and for jamming.

That was very important for me. Yeah. Okay. So, how important was academic training in your journey? Well, I think um you can you can be a very scholastic drummer, very academic drummer, or you can be a very what they call a street drummer, which is like self-taught. Yeah, they’re they’re both good. Maybe a nice mix of both is the perfect blend.

But I feel like personally, the way I learn um going to school helped me a lot. um learning um I loved learning about reading, composition, history, um everything about music, not just not just practicing only. I liked learning everything. So I think music school for me was very valuable. Okay, good.

So you have played with so many different artists like Shakira, Morris and many others. How do you adapt your drumming style in each different artist without losing your essence? your sound, your Yeah, I think that’s Thank you for asking that. I I think um if I think about it, I try to listen to the music. Um every artist has their music, their compositions, and I try to really get into the the the soul of the songs, whether it’s Morrisy or Shakira or whoever else I play with.

Um I try to really learn the songs, the parts, the compositions, the arrangements, and I just try to be as musical as I can. And that’s a very subjective word because everyone is has a different style. Generally the beat the the timing is more than that, right? Yeah. Your taste. Every drummer has their own taste.

So I try to put my taste to their compositions. How I would interpret their style, their rhythms, their fills, their the tones of your drums. And everything to me is is a personal touch. And there are, you know, thousands of different drummers that would do it differently. And that’s kind of beautiful that everyone will bring their own taste.

And so I just try to whichever artist I’m playing with, I try to really respect their compositions but also add my taste. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Good. So do you have a tour moment or lesson that really marked you in in a big stage like with Shakira or or any other artist like something that’s memorable or something that I learned something? you learn something and memorable or or fun or or something you know that particular or only that do you always remember and maybe tell two friends or something.

There are so many there are so many maybe one or two but I mean just recently um we were on tour with this new Shakira tour and we played I grew up in New Jersey so we played the big big u American football stadium in New Jersey. Uh it it uh it’s called Metife Stadium now, but when I was a kid, it was called Giant Stadium.

Okay. And uh that’s where I saw dozens and dozens of concerts as a little boy growing up. I saw lots of concerts every summer there. So that was uh it was fun to play there again. That was my second time playing there. So, but it was very fun. So that’s just one of many, many, many memories that I’ve had along the way.

Okay. And one that you’ve learned a lot. Um yeah, I mean I learn a lot from mistakes. Okay. So anytime something goes wrong during a concert, I I I find it very educational actually. I don’t I don’t think ah I think oh that’s interesting. I should remember this moment so it doesn’t happen again or how do I prevent this for next time.

So yeah, there’s so many things like that like simple things like where you’re wearing in ears and then they stop working and like uhoh, I need two in ears next time or something like that. all these little lessons along the way. Yeah, I saw an interview that you talk about that you always have like two or uh thing, right? Like two monitors, two uh symbol if you can tell us something about it.

Well, yeah. Imagine if you’re driving in a car and you have a flat tire and you don’t have an extra tire in your trunk. That’s a that’s a problem. So I think when you’re playing a concert, no one wants to stop the concert because you broke your drumstick or you broke your drum head. They want to continue.

So you have to have more drumsticks, extra drum heads, extra headphones, extra everything. So for everything because they don’t want to stop the concert, especially not for me, you know. So I always think like what can I do to make sure that the concert never stops. Uh so I always have lots of spare parts and and um things like that.

I’m just trying to be prepared for all emergencies. Yeah. All emergencies. Okay.