First I want to thank God for the many blessings He’s given me, of which the production of this CD is one more.

A special thanks to my wife, DiAnne, this Canadian whom I met in Puerto Rico 15 years ago, and with whom I fell in love and decided to share my life.   We moved to Canada in October of 1995.  She is the one who always encouraged me to work at something I loved, and that I could do this.  I’m thankful to her for all her support, both emotional, spiritual, and economic.

I must also tell you about my father, “El Indio Araucano”, a famous singer – not just because I say he is, but because both the press, media and general public who knew him and enjoyed his music would agree with me.  Some of the countries in which he triumphed and was a great idol are Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Cuba – where he enjoyed tremendous success during the decade of 1950-1960, along with Daniel Santos, Leo Marini, and admired and recognized by Jose Luis Rodriguez “El Puma”.  Space would fail me to name you many of his other friends who shared in his gypsy spirit, such as Boby Capo, and Marco Antonio Muñiz.

Special thanks to my great friends:

• Benjamin Leal “Minso”, a great Chilean pianist who resides in northern Spain.  He was the first to encourage me to use back tracks to help my show, and initially helped me learn to make my own modifications to them,; through him I met another Chilean -

• Jorge Leyton, an excellent guitarist and singer with whom I’ve gained a wonderful friendship, and who shares a similar style as mine, who also plays in the Greater Vancouver area.

I would also like to mention Eduardo Olivares of the Spanish radio program heard daily  on 96.1 FM,  “Latino Soy”,  for all his help when I had recently arrived in Vancouver.

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