Hello.
I appreciate the invitation to this community and as a main rule I will proceed to make a small synthesis by way of presentation.
My name is Esteban Campos. I was born in Cuba on March 31, 1983 in a family that oscillated between sports and arts.
My mother practiced athletics (100 meters flat) and my father practiced basketball and had great musical inclinations since he was an empirical percussionist since he was very young and even ventured into groups of the time as the band of "Pello el Afrocán".
My musical inclinations began at a very young age (4 years old) since my mother worked in a school and whenever I disappeared, she used to find me in the music room where a subject called "Music Education" was taught and I was a great follower when it was my turn to enter a school. I was always sitting at the piano, perhaps trying to bring to the instrument all the music that was going around in my head but without results due to lack of knowledge. Three years later my interest in the piano became very clear. My father always wanted to make me a percussionist of the stature of the greats since it was a "masculine" instrument and the classical piano (although he himself had the sensitivity to listen to it and enjoy a good interpretation) was an instrument for "effeminate".
It turns out that one day or rather night they were showing on TV a concert of a classical pianist very well known in Cuba and in the world, his name is Frank Fernandez. At the moment of beginning his interpretation I was so absorbed and lost in everything that was happening that my father could realize the fascination that the instrument generated in me. From that moment on I began to receive private music lessons because the age to take attitude tests was allowed from the age of 8 and I was barely 7 years old.
Another transcendental and somewhat frustrating event was my presentation at the conservatory to take the physical and attitude tests for the instrument. Upon arrival at the physical testing session my mother was told that I would never be able to play the piano because as an obese child my fingers were short and my hands lacked the tension to reach an octave. That unpleasant moment had a quite satisfactory ending because in front of the school board I showed them that in spite of the physical conditions I lacked for the instrument, I had already been playing for a year. That earned me the validation of an academic year because I already had all the knowledge before starting the school year.
Thus began my academic life between the Vocational Schools of Art "Paulita Concepción" and "Manuel Saumell".
After several problems in both schools I decided to move away from music and stop studying but destiny is unpredictable and I ended up playing the piano in "La Catedral de la Habana" as part of the choir of that church. Through several friends I met during that period I began to have contact with popular music (son and salsa), I learned how to play both genres, becoming part of several groups among which stand out "El septeto de Ignacio Piñeiro" and "Jelengue", thanks to which I am currently living in Venezuela. Since 2009 and where I have expanded my professional area and knowledge. Besides being a piano accompanist, I am also a Music Producer, Studio Engineer, Radio Producer and Music Teacher.
I am currently working in a flamenco academy called "Adagio y Bulería" as music profesor.
