Aidan Quintana

Aidan Daniel Quintana is a Hispanic American singer, pianist, composer, arranger, and audio engineer. He is best known for being the keyboardist and one of the primary composers for the band 6Clicks, and helping write, arrange, and mix the band's first single, "Sail Away," the subsequent my Melody EP, and the entire debut album "Glide." Aidan is one of the prime movers in the band's creative process, and a large portion of music the band puts out is arranged or composed by Aidan.

## Aidan's Personality

Aidan is talkative when he can be but he is mostly busy working on music or other things, Aidan is described as a nice and fun person to talk with. He enjoys talking about music a lot.

## Background

Aidan Quintana was born on March 4th, 2005. He showed early interest in musical instruments during his early childhood in Madrid, Spain, and started playing piano when he was 4. He continued piano studies when the family moved to Charlotte, North Carolina while beginning to explore many styles of music and the idea of composing and audio engineering. He currently studies classical piano at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

## 6Clicks

Aidan met Brenton Daniel White by chance when Daniel invited him to a gaming server run by a friend of his. They found they both had a love for music and video games and became fast friends. Daniel had been writing songs with his friend Abby Bellrose since 2017 under the name 6Clicks. Aidan started helping Daniel with covers in early 2020. He officially joined 6Clicks during the summer months of the year.

He, along with Daniel and Abby re-released the song "Sail Away" this time with professional quality recording and mixing. The original track was a simple acoustic guitar and raw vocals, akin to a demo song. Sail Away blew up almost immediately, reaching nearly 10,000 plays on Spotify and over 3,000 plays/views on YouTube and other platforms. This was largely due to the song being played on local radio stations near Danny's hometown.

Aidan, Danny, and Abby were the primary songwriters and composers in the "My Melody EP". Aidan and Daniel wrote and composed the song "My Melody", which was the opening track for the EP. The song was featured on the webcomic "Starstream" with modified lyrics and sung by Bonnie Bogovich (Singer for the opening theme for the video game "I Expect You To Die"). Aidan also programmed all the drums, keyboards, synths, and mixed and mastered the entire album. He was one of the candidates for singer of Voicemail, but eventually stepped down in favor of Daniel singing the song instead.

Aidan and Abby would largely take the lead in composing quite a few of the songs on the band's debut album, Glide. However, the album. However, the album would be quite a bit more balanced than previous releases, with songs written by all the band members collectively. Aidan arranged and orchestrated the songs "Cascade", "Sugar High", "Backseat", Ghoulish "Nightmare", "Waiting For Something", "Miss Mystic", and "Finality," with an assist from Abby on "Last Wave."

As of June 2022, 6Clicks is beginning to work on music once again, as teased in their discord server. It is unknown at the moment whether another album is coming, or just standalone releases, but we can expect more elaborate arrangements from Aidan soon that really make the rest of the band sparkle.

## Gear

Aidan owns a Steinway and Sons Designed Boston GP-163 Grand Piano. "The action, wide tail, and tone quality of Steinway designed Bostons is superb for their price point..." says Aidan. Aidan uses this piano to compose piano parts for 6Clicks songs, but scarcely uses it on final recordings due to piano tuning issues and the lack of a quality piano micing setup. The only documented time Aidan used this piano on a 6Clicks recording was in his and Abby's cover of Toto's song "Make Believe"

Aidan also is a proud player of Yamaha keyboards. "A Yamaha is probably my ideal choice for expression for when I'm gigging, or when I'm creating new and unique sounds for the keyboard parts in 6Clicks songs" he says. Aidan owns a Yamaha Arius YDP-240, and recently acquired a Yamaha Montage 8 Music Synthesizer, a keyboard which he calls "The best 88 key workstation currently on the market."

In his home studio, his primary vocal mic is a DIY AKG C12 microphone clone with a CK12 Capsule and a 6072A Tube. He uses this mic for lead and backing vocals on 6Clicks covers and original songs.

## Quotes

* "damn people wish they were Mr. Clicks"
* "Japanese ogre lmaooo"
* "I can’t believe Danny is a still the singer of 6Clicks after crashing a Cessna 172 while under the influence after once again failing to write Honey"
* "Trust me the album is better than Donda"
* "Buy our merch, it gives money to Danny so he can spend it on his phone bill"