Musica&Mezcal

Grupo RM es una banda de música norteña originarios de Sinaloa. En el transcurso de este último año se han establecido y consolidado en Vancouver tocando en una variedad de festivales y abriendo conciertos para otros artistas. La composición de los corridos de Grupo RM está arraigado en el encanto de música regional mexicana y la inherente característica de contar historias y describer personajes...

Quatro es un productor musical mexicano de Nayarit, radicado en Vancouver. Quatro es un creador de beats y nos cuenta sobre las diferencias de encontrar oportunidades en Canadá en comparación con México. También practica el freestyle y colabora con artistas de otros países para hacer beats de hip-hop. Recientemente lanzó un EP titulado Dámelo así como su video musical. Puedes seguir a Quatro y sus...

Katie Sly is a bass player and singer-songwriter based in Vancouver. She talked to us about how she started as a kid in music by learning other instruments that made her feel were more like a chore until she learned bass. She also talked to us about moving to LA to study music and then meeting people along the way, resulting in her designing a bass curriculum for a very successful app of a well-kn...

Tapatío Muzik es un productor mexicano de Guadalajara residiendo en Vancouver. Hablamos sobre cómo la música lo encontró a él y no viceversa. Nos platicó sobre sus inicios en la musica y el mundo de los samples, así como empezar de cero, producir beats e ir armando su estudio en la ciudad para producir a artistas locales. Tapatío Muzik tiene su estudio Sound Cartel Studio ubicado en Downtown Vanco...

Robin Layne is a Canadian percussionist Juno nominated who is based in Vancouver. Robin talked to us about how he started to get interested in playing Latin rythms from a young age and how he started to play the marimba. He talked to us how that led him to study in Cuba, Mali, Guinea, Mexico, and Colombia and each of those country’s rhythms and percussions. We also talked about his inspiration for...

Isaac Gargantúa y Cris Trejo son mexicanos e integrantes de la banda de Punk Coma. Nos platicaron sobre la escena Punk actual en la Ciudad de México en comparación con la escena en Vancouver. Isaac actualmente está estudiando música y tuvo la oportunidad de crear una banda e irse de gira por Rwanda. Cris nos habló también sobre la importancia de crear mercancía de valor para seguidores de Coma. Am...

Imogen Moon is a Canadian singer-songwriter based in Vancouver. She sat with us to talk about her first EP (2019), the journey of re-imagining her grandfather’s music (according to what he originally intended) and releasing an album with it. She also talked to us about finding her own voice and growing up in an artistic environment as daughter of a poet and a singer, and the road to finding financ...

Ray Alegría e Israel Kadash nos cuentan sobre sus experiencias adentrándose en la escena musical en la costa Oeste de Canadá y su transición tocando en bares de Nayarit, México a tocar en Vancouver. También nos cuentan sobre sus tropiezos y aprendizajes de tocadas en Mexico y Canadá, qué es un músico huesero y sus planes para su carrera musical. Ray Alegría and Israel Kadash tell us about their ex...

Antonio Larosa is a Canadian singer-song writer and guitar player based in Vancouver. He talked to us about how he got his first guitar and his music influences that started early on in his childhood. We also talked about when he first realized he wanted to be a musician for a living, his writing process, collaborations and upcoming projects. You can listen to Antonio Larosa’s music in all music p...

Daniel Glanz es un bajista y cantautor mexicano radicado en Vancouver, Canada. Nos platicó sobre su experiencia al empezar una banda y tener la oportunidad de grabar en un estudio con reconocimiento nacional así como ser patrocinados por Epiphone y ser invitados a tocar en Los Ángeles, California. Nos cuenta sobre buscar oportunidades en la escena musical en Vancouver y sus proyectos a futuro. Dan...

Christine Lee is a Korean-Canadian singer and songwriter based in Vancouver. She talked to us about how she processed loss in her family by writing a song with an ironic beat called Day Drink. She also talked to us about pushing herself to get a grant that financed her debut album called Eat It and learning about songwriting through singing in a cover band. Christine discussed the experience of gr...

Dey Rose is a singer-songwriter and guitar player from the Philippines currently based in Austria. She talks to us about wanting to study music and then how she got into the sound tech world. She shared with us how she got into a music contest in Vancouver in 2018 and was flown to Los Angeles and later to Manila in The Philippines to perform in the biggest stadium. She also talked to us about the...

Nicolás Segura es un guitarrista y guacharaquero colombiano radicado en Montreal. Nos cuenta sobre empezar tocando música Vallenata a los 12 años después de que su abuela y padre le regalaran una guitarra y a los 15 años se interesó por tocar el acordeón. También nos platicó sobre aprender a apreciar la música tradicional colombiana y su historia hasta que llegó a Canadá. Nicolás también nos cuent...

Singer-songwriter & Sad girl. Born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada, Haleluya Hailu is a multi-intrumentalist, poet, and activist. Eclectic, energetic and constantly moving, Hailu manages to turn the awkward transition to adulthood into songs that anyone could lose themselves in.

Chelsea is a singer-songwriter based in Hawaii, she plays keys and guitar. Chelsea talks to us about her journey through studying music and then being able to share that love for music with her son and what jamming together as a family feels like. She also talked to us about going through her writing process before and after a big loss in her family. You can catch Chelsea’s music on her Gastown Se...

Anna Katarina is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter based in Vancouver, BC. She plays keys and guitar. She talked to us about her writing process, writing a song for her sister, and her debut solo album Daisychain. Anna shared with us her experience pursuing her musical career at Berklee College of Music and her 4-month residency in Nashville, Tennessee. She also talked to us about her other mu...

Marie is praised for her powerful and soulful voice, which she uses to weave melodies and lyrics together, evoking passion and emotion with each note. Marie Hui is based in Vancouver and is an experienced performer of R&B, funk, pop, and soul among others which she mentions are also influences. Since she began her musical career in 2005, Marie has developed into a popular performer for numerou...

Adrina Espin is part of this amazing band called RevoluSon is a group of exceptional musicians united by love and passion for Cuban music and work towards elevating the culture, promoting social change and artistic freedom. The group was formed in 2017 as a nomadic musical duo that performed in the streets of magical towns, beaches and tourist cities in Mexico. Founding members Adrian Espin and Le...

Flor Curcio es una cantautora, intérprete, guitarrista y musico-terapeuta de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Se encuentra presentando su disco solista “Mi Respuesta”, compuesto por un repertorio de su autoría. Sus canciones están conectadas a la raíz folklórica latinoamericana y proponen una mirada reflexiva y honda del sentimiento humano. Ha presentado su obra en diferentes escenarios de su país natal,...

Experienced vocalist Marlie Collins has delighted audiences across the world with her distinctive soulful tone. Her music combines modern 70's funk with southern soul. Marlie has had professional acting training and has a long history of playing both lead and supporting parts on stage and cinema. She works as the lead vocalist for the Vancouver-based bands Side One and Mooncoin Productions whe...

Jair Cruz Roque es un percusionista del Estado de México radicado en Vancouver desde hace un año y medio. El camino de Jair tocando los bongos y las congas empezó hace dos años cuando familiares lo involucraron para que empezara a tocar con ellos. También nos cuenta como antes no disfrutaba mucho de la salsa, merengue, ni bachata sino hasta que empezó a aprender a tocarla. Actualmente Jair toca co...

Ness Nöst is a singer-songwriter, guitar, and key player from Montreal based in Vancouver. She talked to us about how she started in theatre and then discovered she wanted to do music. She came to visit BC and decided she wanted to stay and start off her musical career in the west. We talked about her designing her own merchandise and the service industry being inspiration for a song on her debut...

Bradley Barkman is a Canadian singer based in Vancouver since 2014. Bradley talks to us about growing up and singing in a choir as a Soprano boy across churches and cathedrals in England. He also talks to us about paying tribute to icons, singing Cristina Aguilera's songs in Spanish, and going back to singing original material for upcoming projects. Bradley is invited to sing with many bands a...

Raúl Castro es un acordeonista y cantautor de los Mochis, Sinaloa radicado en Vancouver desde hace 2 años. Nos cuenta sobre cómo empezó en la música, tener sus primera presentaciones, escribir música original y corridos inéditos. También nos cuenta sobre su experiencia grabando su primer disco y revivir su Norteño Banda de Sinaloa en Canadá. Puedes escuchar su música en Spotify y seguir sus presen...

Natalie Adele is an American singer songwriter based in Los Angeles. She studied to be a writer and worked in the film industry for some time until later she realized she was not happy. Although she is very new in the music scene, she talked to us about performing some of her songs live and how she is already working on recording some of her originals this year. Stay tuned for her first album comi...