Drawn to the guitar from an early age, he came to Granada in 1976 to study guitar making. He also studied with Antonio Duran and Jose Lopez Bellido. Eventually, he opened his own shop, becoming the first non-Spaniard maker to establish a shop in Granada. He builds in the Spanish tradition and specializes in building classical concert guitars using only the finest, carefully selected, and aged woods. In 1999, his guitars were awarded first prize and a gold medal at the First National Contest for Stringed Instruments in Sevilla, a contest juried by Jose L. Romanillos.
Martin guitars are light, aesthetically pleasing instruments.
They easy to play with lyric qualities, and possess a clear, balanced, precise tone, rich in color, that projects well.