Iker Gastaminza

Born In Caracas, Venezuela on June of 1962. By age 5 starts music lessons taking the Piano as his instrument following the Curriculum of the Santa Cecilia Conservatory of Rome. At age 16 he started playing keyboards with local rock bands in Caracas and in 1979 became member of the very successful Venezuelan Prog-Rock Band "TEMPANO", recording 7 albums as artist for major labels (Sony, CBS, TopHits), obtaining multiple awards and several radio hits and touring the country regularly for 11 years. Worked as a session musician since 1981, he recorded with major Venezuelan artists and was often called to work as synth programmer and sound-designer. Studied Electronic Engineering at the "Universidad Simon Bolivar", making emphasis on his electives in the digital design area and computer architecture. By 1986 he was working full time with the band "TEMPANO”, also as session arranger / programmer and later on as Midi Programmer. From 1988 to 1991 he was in charge of creating and Producing/Arranging the station ID music and original music of mayor advertising time sale event “preventa” for the Venezuelan TV network Venevision. In 1991 he left Tempano. Continued to work as an arranger and due to the fact that the workflow for major Latin artists increased, in 1996, he decided to move to Miami which by the time was the center of latin music creation/production. Once in Miami, he started to explore the recording engineering area and by 2001 began recording, mixing, arranging and producing for upcoming independent artists, and some of the biggest names in the Latin market. Recipient of 1 Grammy and 6 Latin Grammys, multiple nominations for both awards. Composer of main themes and secondary themes for hit Telemundo Telenovelas: “El rostro de Analia”, “Mas Sabe El Diablo”, “Perro Amor”. Composer of Main theme for Telemundo hit show “Al Rojo Vivo”, in the air for more than 14 years. Composer of Main theme for Telemundo network news show, NBC 6 News Miami, Telemundo NBA and Telemundo “Ritmo Deportivo”.. Engineered and mixed for El Rey Network series “Matador”. Recently he had a very brief tenure as Musical Director for Chayanne’s live band, he has played in a couple of reunion concerts with "TEMPANO” and currently plays with “The Stray Jackets” keeping himself active performing live.