Born in Hong-Kong to a Brazilian father and a German mother, I was raised in Switzerland, Brazil and the USA, and I am deeply focused in what brings different People and Creative Visions together. As is often the case in the Music I help bring into the world, I myself integrate many cultures and influences.

Basic classical piano training at age 14, followed by a few years of playing and touring in small bands led me finally to a more focused learning process at Berklee College of Music, majoring in Music Production and Engineering. Followed by opportunities to further develop my skills in the state-of-the-art New York studio scene of the late 90’s, where I met and learned from the very top talents in the industry such as Toni Maserati, Tom and Chris Lord-Alge, Frank Filipetti, and Michael Brauer, and started a career as a free-lance audio engineer. The Big Apple being the cosmopolitan hub that it is, it allowed me to establish connections with creators from all corners of the US, Latin America, Europe and Asia. That really defined my open-to-all-options style, which offers creators a very broad palette to expand their Music explorations while still feeling grounded.

In 2000 I moved to Rio de Janeiro, invited by my chosen brother and extraordinary human being and producer Tom Capone, to create Estudio Toca do Bandido, a recording studio that became a legendary production hub for the highest level of Brazilian Music, reaching later world-wide recognition (in 2015 Converse Rubber Tracks selected Toca do Bandido as one of 12 iconic studios of the world, which also included Abbey Road-London and Tuff Gong-Jamaica). The decade was spent in a whirlwind of magical projects with iconic artists, generating not only an unexpected level of recognition (10 of the 13 Latin Grammy awards I was honored with are form that era), but also the opportunities to help artists explore new creative avenues, with new sounds, technologies and formats.

Since 2014 I set a new base in the US, first in NY again, and then in Miami, where I connected at a much deeper level with the Music being made all over Latin America. In Miami my lifelong goal of bringing people and cultures together was able to evolve into much more focused actions. Associations with top Latin artists (Bacilos, Jorge Celedon, Luis Enrique) and influencial institutions (Universal Music, Toca Produções, Alacran Studios), and a return in 2022 to my Rio de Janeiro “roots” are making possible more bridge crossings than ever. Also, my talents developped into many areas beyond the music studio, into movies, music series, multi-media art, and it is invigorating to see the world uniting and creating in all different ways.