You Don't Need to Read Music to Write a Song
I always wanted to write songs. Not perform them — write them. The kind of song you'd play for someone you love on their birthday, or the one that says what you never quite figured out how to say out loud. But I never learned an instrument. I can't read music. I don't have the ear or the training the artists I grew up admiring have.
For a long time, that meant the songs stayed in my head. I had the stories — about love, about family, about the moments that actually mattered to me — but no way to turn them into music.
Today's composing tools changed that. They didn't write the songs for me — the stories, the words, the direction, the feeling I wanted each one to carry, all of that is still mine. What changed is that I finally had a way to get it out of my head and into something people could actually hear. I could say "I want this to feel like a slow dance in a Miami kitchen at midnight" or "this one needs a violin here, not a trumpet" and hear it come to life, then shape it again until it felt right.
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I'm not a musician in the traditional sense. I'm a composer in the sense that matters most to me: someone who had something to say, and found a way to say it in music. If you've ever had a song in your head for someone you love, or a story that felt like it belonged in a melody — you don't need years of training to finally hear it. Today's tools make composing much easier and more fun, and more accessible than it's ever been. If I could do it, so can you.
Most of my songs move between English and Spanish, because that's genuinely how I think and feel — not two separate languages, but one voice. Florida is home now; Colombia is where I started. There's a whole generation of us living exactly that mix — American in so many ways, Colombian at the root — carrying pride in both places and picking up something new from each one. Writing bilingual isn't a style choice for me. It's just what honesty sounds like, coming from someone who carries both places at once.
I truly love and enjoy the songs I compose — I still catch myself listening to them in my car, and I'm always thinking about the next one. I'll hear a song from another artist and think, I like that tune... I think I can make it even better, and take that on as my own challenge. But what I love most is composing for someone else — a friend, my girlfriend, a stranger who just wanted to say something to someone they love. There's nothing like the feeling of capturing a real moment of someone's life in a song, and watching them hear it and cry, because for those few minutes, no one else could have told their story quite that way.
The best thing you can do for an artist is play their music — even if it's just one song. There's a real joy in hearing my songs show up somewhere: in a bar, a restaurant, a fitness class, an office, a friend's car, in a playlist, shared on social media. If you want to show your support, that's the small action that brings a huge result — so thank you, truly, if you're one of the people who does that for me.
