NANDO MICHELIN
Genres: Latin Jazz, World Fusion, Post Bop • Uruguay

"I started playing piano as a kid, but stopped when I was 12—I wanted to be a soccer player. About a year or so before going to college to study chemistry I started learning classical guitar, but I was more into pop music and rock, so it didn't click. Then one day my guitar teacher told me that this guy Egberto Gismonti was in town, so I went to hear him. From the moment he hit the first note—it was just a single note on the piano—it was like I was floating for the whole concert; it was an incredible sensation. I said to the person I was with, 'This is what I have to do. Even if I'm not good at it, I don't care; I need to be this way.'" "When I went to Berklee in Argentina for one week in the summer in '87, I saw that there read more...