Letra de My History (Live At Conway Studios)
I started in music when I was a child Actually, when I like seven yeas old, maybe And I start very into the folk music, eh From Colombia and Latinoamerica I learned to play guitar with my old brothers And my father who is all the time singing tangos Of Carlos Gardel and música colombiana like You know, vallenatos and all these kinds of thingsSo- so I grow up listening to all this different rhythms And, you know, music And then, when I- em, when I get 14 years old Eh, I was in school I started to listen to rock music And I bought my first electric guitar And I get eh- totally crazy with, eh- metal music You know I start to- to listen to Metallica and Sepultura And Slayer and Black Sabbath and Zeppelin and- I mean All this kind of music because I never listened to that kind of music I mean before I was always into the tango music and folk musicAnd then when I get- get crazy with rock, I start with a metal band In Colombia, which was call "Ekhymosis" And that was in the year 88', we start in Medellín Which is my- my city, my- I born in Medellín Em, we start to play very loud and very hard And ah, we spend like 12 years actually Playing together and we released five albums With that bandBut through all those years we start to experiment A lot with different rhythms, so we start to incorporate Like latin rhythms or rhythms from Of- from the colombian folk through the metal You know, and we start to do kind of a lot of experimentsAnd then, after 12 years, em, the band broke up Each member of the band decided to, you know Do different kind of music so, so that's That- that was the reason why I moved to Los Ángeles After 12 years I, you know, get very depressed in Colombia Because we couldn't find the opportunity We never go out-outside Colombia We were like a loco band alwaysSo- no, the band broke up do I was very depressed and I So I- I decided to move to Los Ángeles And I start here to, to find new opportunities I start to play here the bass guitar with a metal band call "Agony" Which is- they are friend of mine And at the same time I was trying to find, you know Opportunities to working in my demosAnd after like eight or nine, almost a year Gustavo Santaolalla, he- he got one of my demos And through a friend of mine that give it to him I knew that he was living here, I mean I knew his name for a long time ago because He was very famous in Latinoamerica He produces all this big bands from Latinoamerica That I respect a lot, like Café Tacuba, like Los Prisioneros Like ah- La Maldita Vecindad, like MolotovEh, so for me, Gustavo was familiar, I mean his name And also because he- he used to have a band in Argentina called "Arco Iris" He was I mean, the singer of Arco Iris, so I- I know him And then when Gusta- I was here I was having a very difficult time in Los Ángeles because I I had no money and I had no friends and, you know, I had no car So I was always walking, it was difficult for meBut after a year, some- some day I was in the- in the motel In the motel I was living there for that time and the phone rings And I just answer the phone and was, that was Gustavo He was telling me that- that he liked the demo And he wanted to work with me And at that time in, I just- I would start to cry like a baby man Because I was so happy, I couldn't believe it that That was happening to meAnd definitely that day my- my life change completely so He take me to Universal, you know, to sign with Surco Universal And I start- we start to work together We record the first album, "Fíjate Bien" in the year 2000 We co-produce together, I mean, three of the, of the albums And that- that was the beginning of my solo career