Juan Carlos Paz y Puente

Juan Carlos Paz y Puente is a Mexican-born musician & educator. Professor Paz y Puente is the former Senior Vice President of Marketing and A&R director for Warner Music Mexico.^[1]

Prof. Paz y Puente was one of the founding members of the Fermatta Music Academy to which he is no longer affiliated having moved on to other endeavors since 2007.

Fermatta was the first School in Contemporary music in México that was officially recognized by the Mexican Government

Early career[]

As a musician he began playing the drums and making transcriptions and charts, then making arrangements for well known Traditional Mexican and Spanish recording artists, such as Armando Manzanero, and then became Musical Director, drummer and arranger for Pandora, Camilo Sesto, Hernaldo Zúñiga and Rocío Dúrcal all of with which he toured extensively.

Juan Carlos Paz y Puente was one of the Musical Directors for the concert with Frank Sinatra, Julie Andrews and John Denver.

Eventually commissioned as Production Manager for Luis Miguel, Paz y Puente then left to take the charge of the A&R department at Warner Music Mexico and was given the title of Vice President of A&R where he was responsible for the signing of Edith Marquez, Daniela Luján, Nudo, La Catrina, Alvaro Abitia, and Niurka Kurbelo.

Due to his skills as a musician and music business man as well as producer and arranger, Paz y Puente was given the position of Senior Vice President of Marketing & A&R for Warner Music Mexico.

As producer, composer, arranger and musical director Paz y Puente has worked with an extensive list of artists like: Carlos Santana, Celia Cruz, David Foster, Vinnie Colaiuta, Rafa Sardina, Lucero, Jon Anderson, Peter Erskine, John Carpenter, Salvador Tercero, Eugenio Toussaint, Gregg Bissonette, Randy Waldman, Maná, Café Tacuba, Clare Fischer, José José, Guadalupe Pineda, Napoleón, Jorge Hernández from Los Tigres del Norte, , Alejandro Fernández, Emmanuel, Ana Bárbara, Edith Márquez, Jorge Avendaño, Ana Gabriel, , Bill Schnee, Lee Sklar, Tim Pierce, Narada Michael Walden, , , , Francisco Céspedes, La Ley, Humberto Gatica, Ricardo Montaner, Bebu Silvetti, Luis Fernando Ochoa, Daniela Luján, Fernando Osorio, , , Eduardo Diazmuñoz, Loris Ceroni, Manuel Romero, Mark Kamins, Jim Gaines, , Piero Cassano, Thalía, Gabriel Puentes, Agustín Bernal, , Jorge Ferrón, Jean B. Smith, , Oscar Vallejo, Michael Thompson, Bruce Gowdy, Mijares, and , to name but a few. He also participated in the Spanish version of "You'll See" for Madonna, written by Paz Martínez and produced by David Foster.

Awards and committees[]

Professor Paz y Puente is a recipient of the "El Sol de Oro" from the Mexican National Journalist Council and has been a member of the Blue Ribbon Committee for Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences that overseas the Latin Grammy Awards.

As a producer for Francisco Céspedes' album Vida Loca, he won 3 Premios Amigo in Spain for: "Best Latin Album", "Best Male Latin Artist" and "Best New Latin Artist" by selling over a 1,000,000 albums worldwide.

Professor Paz y Puente frequently lectures at universities in the United States and Mexico. Professor Paz y Puente teaches periodically at UCLA and has taught both Song Composition and Latin Music Business there.

He founded M&L Music, a record label and publishing company with Roberto Figueroa, Mario Santos and Amir Agai. In a very short period of time, they produced and released Eugenio Toussaint’s albums “El Pez Dorado” and “Trio”. Enrique Nery “Solo Sessions”, Clare Fischer “Introspectivo” and Mario Santos’ “Escenas”.

Mexican Bicentennial[]

In celebration of the Mexican Bicentennial, Juan Carlos Paz y Puente co-produced and arranged a special project with Mexican recording artist Elán is a collection of songs from some of Latin America and Spain's most beloved and well known composers and songwriters with special musical arrangements meant to honor the songs' original melodies.

This project feature Peter Erskine on drums (Weather Report, Steely Dan, Diana Krall); percussionist Alex Acuña (Elvis Presley, U2, Weather Report) Brian Bromberg on bass (Dizzy Gillespie, Michael Bublé) Michael Thompson (guitarist) on guitar (Michael Jackson, Ringo Starr) Lee Thornburg (Chicago, Supertramp) and orchestral arrangements by Eduardo Diazmuñoz.

Personal life[]

Juan Carlos is married to Sibila Reyes, they have two children.

Partial discography[]

• Eugenio Toussaint, album Trío, credit: Producer
• Eugenio Toussaint, album El Pez Dorado, credit: Producer
• Clare Fischer, album Introspectivo credit: Producer
• Francisco Céspedes, album Vida Loca credit: Producer
• , album Solo sessions, credit: producer
• Francisco Céspedes, album credit: Producer and Composer
• Café Tacuba, album credit: A&R
• Maná, album MTV Unplugged credit: A&R
• La Ley, album Uno credit: A&R
• La Ley, album Vértigo credit: A&R and Executive Producer
• Edith Márquez, album credit: A&R and Executive Producer
• Edith Márquez, album credit: A&R and Executive Producer
• Lucero, album Mi destino credit: Composer
• José José, album credit: Arranger
• El Tri, album Sinfónico credit: A&R and Executive Producer
• El Tri, album credit: A&R
• El Tri, album credit: A&R
• Ricardo Montaner, album credit: A&R
• Ricardo Montaner, album Es Así credit: A&R
• Álex Lora, album credit: A&R
• Elán, album credit: Co-producer and arranger
• Elán, album Street Child credit: Arranger
• Cielo y tierra, “Cielo y Tierra”, Producer and Arranger
• Jorge Ferrón, ”Ferrón”, Co-Producer
• Alvaro Abitia, “Tradúceme”, A&R and Executive Producer
• DJ Crysler, ”Cabaret Mix”, A&R
• Nudo, ”Nudo”, A&R
• Alejandro Filio, ”Filio”, Arranger and programmer
• Rodrigo Noriega, ”Rodrigo”, A&R and Executive Producer
• Ilse, “Africa”, Composer
• La Quinta Avenida, ”La 5a Av.”, Co-Producer
• Agua Luna, ”Agua Luna”, Composer
• Crista Galli, ”Crista Galli”, Arranger and programmer
• Various Artists, “El Ultimo Adiós”, Vocal director
• Warner Music Artists, “Diciembre 25”, Arranger and programmer

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