In my summer school class, I met Horacio. He's super nice and always took a bunch of us home after class. One day we were talking and I told him how I was trying to work in the music industry yada yada and he was like "Great, Ive been in the industry for a long long time. I worked for Sony BMG and now I have a small music label of my own." ... very good person to know.
Last week he invited me to go on a media tour with one of his artists, Felipe Staiti, the guitarrist from Los Enanitos Verdes, (The Little Green Dwarfs). In the picture, he's on the left.
Apparently, Los En. Verdes is a huge band that has been around since the latter 70s, kind of like a mild version of U2 for the Latin music community. So it was real cool when I asked him, "Soo what kind of music do yall sing?" haha such a bozo. I had no idea who they were. Anyway, Felipe is coming out with his first solo album in November and was going around radio and TV stations being interviewed about the album. Before I met him I had no idea what the media tour was going to be like. Horacio just told me, "Go here, ask for so and so and they'll take care of you." Ok, easy enough. I showed up at Much Music (a music TV channel down here) and walked down this long hall where a man signaled me into a bright dressing room. Hello. I walked into the interview with the camera crew and bright lights crammed into this dressing room, Felipe was sitting in a chair with a microphone and there I was sitting two feet away on a couch while the interview was going on. I sat there like an idiot smiling as I started to realize that this guy was kind of a big deal. haha. After that I went with him, his manager and a guy from Horacios label to get some tea and then to a radio interview. It was really cool! Not because of who he was, but to see the whole process happen. I wanted to ask for a picture so bad! I had my camera with me and everything and at the last minute I chickened out, said bye and walked away like a coward! loser.
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