Emiliano Rodriguez (3)

Born in San Francisco, California, raised in Richmond, Emiliano Rodriguez has been a student at Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center in San Pablo for over nine years, but has been engrossed in music all his life. Starting with simple arts at around age five, and then learning his first instrument, piano, at seven, the art of playing an instrument started early, and today he plays much more than piano, including electric bass, guitar, jarana and leon. Influenced by many artists, but an especially devoted Interpol fan and, on the other side of the musical spectrum, a Chopin and Satie aficionado, sweet, dark, and melancholy melodies and odd, alternating rhythms are what attracts him, although the joyous songs of all traditional Mexican music seem more at home to him to play than most styles.