Latin America

Latin America / Venezuela / Maracay

Victor Perez: I was born in Maracay as a necessity of the rumbera movement that refuses to die, followed by a legion of salseros and salseras experts and experts in the rumbera subject. Due to the encouragement of rumberos and rumberas throughout various salsa parties, we managed to concretize and carry out purely salsa events.

Salsa Project

It is represented by Víctor Pérez with the idea that this movement can shape and maintain the Caribbean feeling in the music lover current.

Starting with the street rumba, rumba for the neighborhood, we started in a patio to have parties (only with sound), we made several calls receiving the attention of the rumba people, the patio being too small.

In 2004 we set up our first great unforgettable event, we managed to bring an anthology rumba dancer to Maracay for the first time.

In the following we continue with the rumbas with the regional orchestras and groups maintaining the salsa movement, we also held a discussion, conference in the house of culture of Maracay.

Salsa Project

In his career carrying out events he has presented a great variety of groups such as:

Bailatino, Joel Uriola and his band, mango group, Mandinga and his star band among others.

Not only in Maracay has the salsa project held events, we have worked on victory with the same rumba, bringing together salseros and salseras with the same idea.

The salsa project has also intertwined with various national organizations such as asocosalsa (caracas), asocrosalsa (pto. pelo), friends from Valencia involved with the genre, and associations from Maracay such as rumberos del patio, asosalsa Aragua, the salsa troop and others from the region. .

Latin America / Venezuela / Valencia

Victor Perez ( Dj/Musician ) 

From a very early age, I started listening to Salsa, tuning into radio airport (as many times as I could), the lake station in Valencia where you could listen to some Salsa.

Then I started collecting LP records, 45 records, cassettes to listen to the insane, Tito Rodríguez, Latin Dimension and in the year 74/75, of course Ismael Rivera, Estrellas de Fania

A lover of the rumba and for owning the records, in all the rumbas in the neighborhood that were organized they looked for me to place the music in the famous pick-ups.

As a result of that time I liked the environment more, I kept updating with the arrival of the CD, PC and until now the existing audio programs.

I have studied professional audio, radio operator, locution and oratory, and they always hire me to set music for public and private parties, generally in Maracay and Victoria.

Last year as an idea, dominating salsa website was created to organize, promote the Dj’s musicalizers of the region.

Latin America / Venezuela / Caracas

Musical rhythms always attracted and encouraged Jhon Semeco, from a very young age, at the age of 9 he entered the Venezuela Children’s Choir and later the Rondallita, by then he was already singing on television and recording albums, however, his passion was Salsa which is one of the rhythms that he liked the most.

He mentions that “Salsa won among all the musical rhythms because it is in the blood and in the genes, we are Latinos with warm blood, we grew up with flavor and tumbao, it is impossible not to move our feet to the rhythm of a tumbao, the chapeo of a timpani, to the mark of the key and the mintune of the piano, impossible not to give in to the cadence of the bass, the trill of the metals and the voice with the feeling of a singer”.

He was listening to Rubén Blades, Willy Colon, Héctor Lavoe, Latin Dimension, La Salsa Mayor, Ismael Ribera, Estrellas de Fania and the Venezuelan trabuco, among other well-known salsa groups and artists.

The artist career is a long and difficult path that they follow, but few achieve success and it is thanks to their great will, struggle and desire to be recognized for their music that they manage to perform, in addition, Jhon Semeco refers that the support and encouragement of moving forward was given to him by friends, artists and colleagues, in this way he achieves perseverance, dedication, determination, seriousness, professionalism, study, love and passion for what he does, thus achieving respect and credibility, thus obtaining the convening power in this music environment.

He is currently creating a new Salsa Romántica album, which he will call “Propias y Ajenas”, this arises at the request of his friends and colleagues, since after writing for many artists and orchestras such as La Dimensión Latina, La Salsa Mayor, Los Satélites , the Combo de Venezuela, The Sopranos, Marcial Izturiz, Wladimir Lozano, among many others…

Decided to sing his songs, accompanied by great composers whom he admires and respects, and whom at some point he saw very far away and today life rewards him by being his friends, giving him the opportunity to interpret his songs, they are nothing more and nothing less than Jorge Luis Piloto, Pedro Azael, Yasmil Marrufo, Alfredo Matheus 10, Juan Carlos Pérez Soto, Enrique Barrios, and Luis Romero, all GRAMMY winners.

It is worth mentioning that they are the ones who write for stars like Marc Anthony, Luis Miguel, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Luis Enrique, Franky Ruiz, Roberto Roena, Jerry Rivera, Olga Tañon, Ricardo Montaner, Luis Fonsi, Cristina Aguilera, Ricky Martín, Cristian Castro , Carlos Baute, Prince Royce, Gloria Estefan, José Feliciano, Celia Cruz, Tito Nieves, Mariah Carey, Oscar de León, José Luis Rodríguez, Paulina Rubio, and other well-known artists. Now Jhon with his new album has the privilege of singing songs composed by himself and songs by his friends thanks to friendship and mutual admiration.

“Propias y Ajenas” will have 1 song for each of them, and the rest are songs of their own written with all their heart, most of them are experiences lived or seen in others, this is how the title of their album came about.

We asked him to know what he recommends to all the new talents who are in the process of training and who are in the arduous struggle to stand out in this environment, and this is how he replied: “I recommend that you study, that you prepare, that you listen and learn from the best, whatever your musical style, that you say NO to mediocrity, that you have personality and not a copy of another, that you understand that putting on a hat reverse, dark glasses and chains does not make them an artist, that they strive to make good music and not songs with repetitive rhythms and lyrics”

For more information, you can contact him through:

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rumbandajhon
• Correo: [email protected]