The art of enjoying art.

My parents tell me that I've always been a big fan of music since my childhood. It was an every weekend thing to be woken up by the sound of my father playing the keyboard in the living room, I would immediately go with him, step on his side, and randomly press the white and black keys of the keyboard (A very annoying thing to do to a musician if you ask me now that I'm 21).

When I turned eight years old my parents enrolled me in guitar classes, I'd go twice a week to my aunt's house to learn among my cousins and brother, We all were very excited about it. Turns out the teacher was the director of a kid's choir that played all Sundays in one of the churches in my town, so a couple of months after grinding, we got to play all together in it after learning the basics of guitar, and I also got to sing a couple of songs as a soloist, and I think there was when I unconsciously found out that I loved being on a stage.

Years went by and so did the interest...

If you have gotten here, you probably think by what you have read that I got totally immersed in music, but the reality is that I suddenly lost interest in it. Besides music, I'm also very passionate about video games, cats, football, and tech in general, and back then when I was in primary/high school, the only thing I'd do in my free time was to play videogames, even though I knew how to play the guitar and sing, I completely leave those things apart.

Last years of high school

When I got into bachillerato / preparatoria (last three years of high school in Mexico) I had to choose an extra activity to do, it had to be something related to either sports or arts, so I decided to go back to my musician era. I got into the musical group of the school as a singer and guitar player, and the first year I honestly liked it, but again, lost interest in it in the second year, the teacher was really chill, my grades were not in danger, so I stopped going to the class. However, once in my last semester of the third year, months before studying at university, my teacher called me and asked me if I wanted to be a soloist for a song the group was performing at a school event, I said why not and went for it.

I felt very comfortable with my performance so I decided to start going back to the class, and I just went for a couple of weeks because then this whole covid thing happened, so school went fully online, but still, that performance made me think that it was probably a good idea to go back to the scene.

Uni: A wonderful moment of my life

I'm currently a year away from finally having my degree as a computer science engineer, it's been an amazing journey, a timeline where I've had the chance of living amazing memories and meeting amazing people, but also I've had the chance of falling in love again with music.

In August of 2022, I decided to enroll myself in piano and singing lessons on campus, I remembered how great I felt the last time I performed on a stage so I decided to go for it again, and it was probably one of the best decisions I've ever made while being a uni student. I only lasted for six months in my piano lessons, I didn't like that much the way they taught, but the singing class was something else.

I had the fortune to have Analy Gerardo as my teacher, an amazing woman who has had a blast of an artistic career, winning amazing awards like the OTI and performing as the Latin American voice of characters we all used to watch in movies as kids like Mulán. The growth I had in this class was, as expected, truly amazing, I became a way better singer, but the best of it is that it also helped me to grow in a lot of aspects of my personal life like being way more confident about myself. This whole class taught me the art of enjoying what I always liked so much, but somehow I didn't realize.

Being able to express yourself with music is truly amazing and beautiful, the fact that you can put all of your feelings and taste into the thing you are performing is incredible, a wonderful skill we have as humans, the way it feels is really hard to explain.

The fact that you get to feel and evoke emotions through music is purely unique; it's art. The performer savors what they are playing, allowing themselves to be carried away by what their heart says, and their emotions shine through gestures, eyes, and body language that dance in harmony with the music. The listener can also enjoy the musician's music, seeing the colors that evoke their mind as they listen to harmonies emanating from the voice or an instrument. Music has its own voice, and it will always try to tell us something.

So... After so many years I can say that I'm very happy about this passion I just discovered, and that we all should talk more about: