about me
ever since i was a kid, i was exposed to a huge range of music courtesy of my parents - mainly my dad who blasted coldplay, razorlight, the beatles, michael jackson and pink floyd from his office on the daily - and this is what caused me to fall in love with music, perhaps a bit too much.
i got my first guitar at age 9 and since then (10 years!) i've been resolute in my desire to make music a permanent part of my life. i wrote my first songs when i was 13/14, and it's safe to say that they weren't that great. however, i have since written many (many) more - which i'd like to believe are much better - thanks to having learnt how to actually play the guitar and also in becoming more competent with the technology side of it.
the past
in september of 2016, at the age of 16 and inspired by a holiday to galicia, i started working on my first serious musical project called 'the world in flames', and that project in its essence was completed by the start of the new year. furthermore, i had been working on a project called 'parallel lines', that had gone through many different songs since the end of 2015, however i have found that much more difficult to complete, never really feeling satisfied with every song.
the present
'the world in flames' is still one of my most proud work, however it is also instrumental because of the fact that i have always written music better than words and also due to my limited singing ability. i started singing lessons and thus my confidence in singing has grown, leading me to write songs with lyrics in mind. i am currently working on a more stripped-down, direct and "acoustic" set of songs which i hope to complete and release by the end of 2019. in march 2019, i released my first ever single 'craters', after 4 years of it being in existence, and i am incredibly proud of it. you can listen to it on spotify or even buy it on itunes. a month later i released my second single 'i want to tell you', which is the first self-written song i've ever sung on; you can read more about it in the music section below.
the future
this is the exciting part. due to my complete infatuation with music, i am now in my first year at the university of liverpool studying popular music and hispanic studies. this i am sure will bring many opportunities to me and i am incredibly excited to find out how those manifest themselves. i also hope to release a short EP this year (2019), before then releasing the aforementioned full album.
so stay tuned! exciting times lie ahead...
music
click on the art to listen in spotify
craters (feat. CHARLY)
written and recorded in 2015, when i was 15 years old, 'craters' is my first ever single. i decided on this song being the first that i put out as it was coming up to it being 4 years old, and it was also the first song i ever shared online, so to me it made sense. i went back to the original files and recordings after numerous versions spanning those 4 years, spruced them up and breathed new life into them and that was that; what you hear is what i would have made 4 years ago had i had the capacity to do so. click on the artwork to listen in spotify.
i want to tell you
my second single, written in about 20 minutes and recorded there and then, live, with overdubs coming within the next few days, this song is probably the fastest completed song i've ever written. it also features me singing on one of my own songs for the first time, which is quite a terrifying thing. this is quite a personal song, even though the lyrics came in such a short amount of time, i feel like they're direct enough to mean something but still up to people's interpretation. it's, in my mind anyway, about a person who doesn't know that they are hurting you whenever you see them, due to one's own personal problems or by things that they have done/said that they don't realised has caused you damage - so yeah, quite personal and not particularly uplifting. that's contrasted however by the instrumentation, which is basically every instrument i had at home that wasn't left at university: a guitar, a bouzouki and a banjo. click on the artwork to listen in spotify.
