Still
my own.

Real Hearts & Bodies is my genre and artistic signature in English and Spanish, a musical language born from my lived experience, inner world, and imagination, shaped through my writing and creative direction. I bring the dark allure of electronic pop, the intimacy of Hiphop/R&B and the lyrical pulse of melodic rap into the heat and release of the dance floor. Here, heartfelt love can be fierce.

That foundation opens into house energy, reggaeton-inflected rhythms and instrumental colors from different traditions, including Cuban tres, Chinese guqin, Greek lyre, Egyptian harp and electric hurdy-gurdy. A single song can bring several musical worlds together without changing the message of its lyrics.

I meticulously shape how these musical influences meet, alternate and give way to one another as a song unfolds. Shifts in rhythm, instrumentation and vocal delivery can bring a changing emotional perspective into the sound itself.

For me, emotional precision means refusing to let one truth erase another. Missing someone does not necessarily mean wanting the relationship back. Desire does not decide what either person owes. A change of heart does not make every earlier feeling a lie.

I develop those distinctions through original writing, extensive revision, and musical and performance direction. An instrument can answer the voice without repeating it. A pause can leave room for another person; an emphasis can turn an invitation into a demand. I work through intuition, emotional sensitivity and reasoning to hear those differences, questioning what the language and delivery might imply as I refine what I mean.

Meditation, philosophical inquiry and psychological observation inform that attention. I examine the difference between a feeling and the story built around it, between an inherited expectation and a freely chosen desire. Those distinctions can become dramatic turns within a song: a confident voice reconsidering an assumption, attraction becoming more intimate through honesty, or a familiar chorus taking on a different meaning because of what has happened since it was last heard.

These artistic relationships shape Real Hearts & Bodies. Thought does not have to interrupt the pleasure, and pleasure does not have to justify itself by teaching something. Desire can be intellectually charged. A moment of self-recognition, emotional clarity, or intimate truth can arrive inside the pleasure of a song.

Across the 16 songs of Still My Own, love, pleasure, belonging and perseverance meet deeper questions of shame, power and freedom through an ordinary man’s extraordinary range of feeling, with room to stand his ground, question himself, let someone reach him and keep becoming.

For women, men and people of every gender and walk of life, the invitation is to reclaim agency over your own heart and body: to feel deeply, want honestly, choose freely and give your life a direction of your own.

Love can change my life. It does not get to own it.

I create this work in English and Spanish to meet people across countries and cultures, while giving each album a musical and expressive life of its own. My ambition is to contribute to human evolution in how we understand ourselves and live together: to question who taught us to feel ashamed, whose interests that shame serves, and why love is so often asked to prove itself through surrender. I want the songs to make another possibility felt: lives that can touch, challenge and change one another while remaining their own.

That change includes me. I want to keep learning how to feel intensely, think critically and remain responsible for what I do. The music brings those questions into desire, humor, intimacy and pleasure. I want it to open more possibilities for being human together, without turning my way of living into another rule someone else must follow.

Even the parts of ourselves we rarely let anyone see are invited into the light, to speak, to dance, to discover what they awaken in each other. We can meet there with more of ourselves present and less of ourselves on trial.

We’re often taught to make ourselves easier to love by keeping parts of ourselves out of sight. Yet the very things we thought would cost us closeness can open new ways to understand, desire and care for one another. There can be more love when there is more of us to meet, with room to be different and still be close.

I do not have to become less thoughtful to be sensual, or less loving to stand my ground. These are not rival identities taking turns being the real me. They can exist together, and none has to tell the whole story. What I felt before could have been real without deciding everything I am allowed to feel or choose now. I do not choose every feeling or discovery, but I have a say in how I live them. Being whole does not mean being finished. Knowing myself is not the end of the invitation. I want to bring that fuller presence into how I listen, desire, create and care, and leave room for you to meet me without leaving yourself behind.

Every part of me gets to live, including who I have yet to become.

I shape this signature through original writing, extensive revision, and the conversation between what I feel and how I give it form.