Eduardo is a bass player and Music Director of DIYM 2014.

Music is a huge part of my life. Growing up in Perú I was always eager to try and learn any musical instrument I had access to on my own. I was also lucky enough to receive formal music education. As a kid, I got hooked on the bass even before I knew what it was, I could identify it and follow bass lines in music, trying to replicate them on piano and guitar. I played bass for the first time at age 15 and I never looked back.

It took years of personal research and reconciliation to discover that Afro-Latin music was my thing after realizing that I had hand-picked only songs with African beats and patterns in my life’s playlists for decades.

Once in Seattle In an effort to expose my kids to their culture, we went to see De Inga Y Mandinga in 2013. I was overwhelmed by the quality of production the sentiments and the history they were able to transmit through music, poetry, and dance, and at that very moment I knew that we had to be part of it; Right after the show I introduced myself to Monica Rojas and the rest is history.

In all my years with De Cajon Project I have learned so much from my own culture and heritage, I have been able to better understand myself and my struggles and the parallels with Afro-indigenous communities in the Americas. For the past 10+ years, I tried to find my place in the Seattle music scene playing as much and as often as I could with several local bands and for the past 5 went on tour with several well-known Peruvian musicians, But it is with De Cajón Project and especially with De Inga y Mandinga where I find purpose and meaning to every single note I play.