Manuel Rodriguez

I'm a Civil Engineer and musician. I was born in Merida, Venezuela the 28th September of 1993. I'm 24 years old at the moment and I'm studying english too. I love languages, nature and music.

I grew in Merida city, which is a cold one and actually one of the most touristic places in my country.
When I was 15 years old mi parents decided to come to Maracaibo because of a new job's opportunity for my father.

I've been living here since 2008 and it has been a good experience with a lot of learning. In 2010 I graduated from high school and I began to work like a children entertainer in holiday's periods.

At the same time I began to study Civil Engineer at University of Zulia where I could know a lot of good people that until now are very good friends mine.

Since I was a child I've loved music, and I've had the opportunity to know good local musicians. I was in the 'Estudiantina Universitaria', which is an institutional musical group that plays folk music that taught me a lot about Venezuelan music. The stay in there allowed me to develop my way of play the 'Cuatro Venezolano', which is the National Musical Instrument and which has given me beautiful moments with professors, friends and musicians in my country.

I knew to a couple of friends, Adolfo Labarca and Ivan Gavidia, who are like my brothers. We began a musical project called Jamming in 2013, which consisted in live and enjoy the life with the music, giving to people shows with lots of aware messages.
Since that moment I'd been interested in reggae music which allowed us to give to people a good perception about this sort of music which is not as appreciate as others.

In 2015 we had the best moments playing in different sites around the city and we really enjoyed those incredible moments. However, the project finished at the end of 2015, and we have different ways in this moment.

Since then, I've been dedicating my time to develop my musical profile in my city, playing in some places.

I graduated from University last year, on 26th July exactly but I'm not working with my profession in this moment.

Here yo can see some of I've been doing and hear a song called 'Y fue asi' composed by Juan Carlos Gomez, a Venezuelan compositor, performed by Adolfo Labarca and me.