.MUSIC.

TURN THE VOLUME UP!

THE MUSIC THAT DEFINES MY LIFE

Prelude

.PRELUDE.

WHY MUSIC MATTERS TO ALL OF US?

Before we choose our first favorite song, music is already choosing us.

It lives in our earliest memories the danzón humming in our grandparents’ kitchens, the radio crackling on the way to school, the one MTV moment that opened the door to a new different world.

Music becomes our timeline.

A collage of cultures, heartbreaks, late-night conversations, and songs that stitched themselves into the places we didn’t know were broken.

We are shaped by the music that raised us, softened by the music we grew into, and saved by the music that landed exactly when we needed it, where we needed it.

.DEEP DIVES.

SOUL, MUSIC & MEMORY

LOS CONDENADITOS

A lullaby for the forgotten

“Los Condenaditos” sits inside Fabulosos Calavera (1997), an album where Los Fabulosos Cadillacs abandoned every trace of lighthearted ska to confront the shadows. This isn’t a song of rebellion or celebration, it’s a hymn for the forgotten. Children born in the wrong place at the wrong time, carrying a destiny they never chose.

A funeral march disguised as rock

Everything in this arrangement is intentional, a drumbeat that moves forward like a slow procession, a bassline that sounds heavy, almost tired, as if carrying a story on its back, guitars muted, restrained, like they know this is not a place for noise and the horns, usually bright and celebratory, here turned into mourning trumpets, dignifying.

Destiny written before birth

“Los Condenaditos” is a portrait of structural Latin American society. It’s about the kids who inherit a future already marked by their surroundings. It’s about the cycles of poverty, violence, loss that have been passed down like an unwanted family heirloom.

Why it matters

Los Fabulosos Cadillacs didn’t create this song for the charts, it was made to witness the pain and to give those forgotten kids a form of immortality through sound. And that’s why “Los Condenaditos” remains one of the band’s most powerful, haunting compositions.

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Graffiti alleyway in Valparaíso with murals and cobblestone path
Graffiti heart painted on a concrete pillar in an empty street

PA' DÓNDE SE FUE

A GOODBYE THAT NEVER HAPPENED

“Pa’ Dónde Se Fue” is the wound shaped by someone leaving too early, too quietly, too permanently. It’s the ache of a presence that should have stayed, the silence that settled where warmth was supposed to live. The song becomes a hand reaching into the past, trying to understand a goodbye that never happened.

HOLDING ON TO WHAT’S NO LONGER THERE

Soft guitars, gentle percussion, a trembling voice. It feels like walking through an empty house and hearing echoes that should still exist. Every note is a step through rooms where something used to exist, something that still feels real even when it’s long gone.

WHAT NEVER GOT TO BE

It’s the kind of loss that grows with you, reshaping itself with time, confusion becoming longing, longing becoming questions, questions softening into quiet acceptance.

AND THE QUESTION THAT NEVER STOPS

It’s the question that belongs to all of us who lost something too early, too young, too violently or too quietly and who still sometimes look back at the place where that love should have been.

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.THE TIMELINE.

EIGHT DECADES, EIGHT CLASSICS

.HIGHLIGHTS.

MY HOLY TRINITY

BORN TO DIE

A tragic hymn dressed as a pop confession, full of blue smoke, doomed devotion, and the ache of loving someone with your whole, breakable self.

Release Year

2012

Standout Lyrics

“Don’t make me sad, don’t make me cry… sometimes love is not enough.”

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WACHTMUZIEK

A song for the nights when your heart feels heavy, when you’re holding on by a thread and someone else’s cracked honesty becomes the only steady ground.

Release Year

2017

Standout Lyrics

"When it really gets too much... I remember when I peaked and gone were my friends."

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MIS SENTIMIENTOS

A Mexican cumbia torn between sweetness and sorrow the kind of song that dances with a trembling smile, holding a broken heart that’s trying to heal between tears.

Release Year

2014

Standout Lyrics

"Me duele al saber que he sido un paso más en tu sendero de amor y que te vas."

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.PLAYLIST.

MY GO TO SOUNDTRACK

Press play and enter the world inside my headphones.

.EPILOGUE.

WE ARE THE PEOPLE

There are songs we return to when the world feels too heavy, and then there are people who arrive with the same quiet strength as music: unexpected.

Some friendships don’t begin with fireworks but with small, simple truths.

This is my small thank you to the friend who showed me that even in the hardest chapters, there is always someone willing to stand at your side and keep the light steady while you find your way again.

Some songs feel like home.

Some people do, too.