Carlos Erquicia

Carlos José Erquicia Cruz (Musician, Composer, Songwriter and Guitarist) Born in San Salvador on March 17, 1971, son of Ana Julia Cruz and Herbert Erquicia, raised in a family of four brothers, began to fill small to be musically since always surrounded by many friends of her parents love of music, including Fernando Avila, Frank Quetglas, guitarists learn to influence the music through the guitar Now add to that innate talent of his mother, Ana Julia with dance and her singing aroused the artistic result from an early age joined the musical taste of his father, and was well when at the age of 10, appears first guitar teacher in your home "Maestro Quijano , "which taught guitar to almost all family members, Carlos was the last to take classes with only five classes are devoted to playing the requinto, (five-string instrument), and begins to create a repertoire of songs traditional translated by him as pure ear (moliendo café, el carbonero, and Panamanian), so one day May 10 at the age of 11 he made his first guitar concert (concert on the mother) which held in the chapel of the Colegio Liceo Salvadoran, and that's where he began his career as a musician in concert, interacting and communicating his art to the people after the age of 15 formed his first rock band with two friends more, which leads to become one of the pioneering bands of the rock in El Salvador in the late 80's, presenting at concerts dedicated to World Environment Day (American School) to name any, in the year 1990 at the age of 18 years left the country and goes to reside in the city of Durham (North Carolina), which serves to broaden their cultural horizons as music starts his work as composer, and wrote his first song called "If the two we love "which will be released on radio in 1993. After living for a time in America returns to his homeland in 1992 and the band "The believers" which consisted of Billy Carden (vocals), Carlos Dada (drums) and he (guitar), and with whom he recorded the song "forget you" which comes to a position in the ears of listeners of Radio Femenina, and which begins with a series of concerts at various locations in San Salvador, in 1994 I left the rock to break into the music bossanova, huapango , bolero, and rumba flamenco, forming a duo with his friend Jose Alfredo Lemús with whom begins this project which will release it as a versatile musician. Because of their musical knowledge in 1995 invite you to participate as a presenter of music videos from a progam TV (Channel 21), in which he develops his career as a social communicator and able to establish musical relationships with foreign artists, like Laureano Brizuela, Marcelo Cezan, to name a few, this opens the door into the media and in this he begins his career best time of composition to write about more than 40 songs between 1996 to 1997. Totally inspired love and women, recorded in the song "be happy" and start his career as a songwriter, which lets you experience complemetar music and lyrics in an integrated manner through which expresses their emotions without being tied to any specific genre, but according to his feelings. Is this what it takes to get better as an artist, both in musical quality as well as in the lyrical quality of his lyrics, now plays music composed for classical guitar, and is trained as a songwriter with a deep feeling in the message his lyrics and a very solid musical performance and a high harmonic, melodic and rhythmic. .

. Influences
Sting, Andrés Segovia, John Lennon.