I was born in Argentina but grew up in Venezuela. My father was a musician, not professionally, but he played for fun. I started drumming because his drummer had part of a drum kit spare and he gave it to me. That was when I was 13. I started lessons with this legendary Venezuelan drummer – every drummer in the country went to his place in downtown Caracas to learn.
Drumming is not a common thing in Venezuela though. They like baseball and basketball, not rock music so much. But there were a few people into it, so I started my own band called Claroscuro which went for 11 years, and by the age of 15 I was playing professionally. We had a few albums and one of the songs was on MTV, and for a Venezuelan band it was quite a big thing. We were just kids doing anything that we wanted to do basically, and it was great.
Even though I always love music and am a musician, I knew if wanted to be more articulate in sound I would have to do it properly, so I decided to come to London to study at the School of Audio Engineering. For me, influence wise, the music I always listened to – from The Cure to Depeche Mode – it was always British. There was always something more artistic about the British sound so I wanted to move to the eye of the storm.