At the age of fourteen, he started studying classical guitar with Master Juan Mario Monroy, a direct student of Abel Carlevaro (Guitar player from Uruguay). While developing his own personal approach to playing the electric Guitar, he switched to the electric bass at age of sixteen. He studied with several bass players and other instrumentalists from the jazz and rock scene in Bogotá. These studies were strongly complimented with solfege and theory program at the Francisco Cristancho's Music Academy. At age eighteen, he enrolled in the Javeriana University, Bogotá where he studied double bass with the Ukrainian master and first double bass player of the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Zankov. During his studies, he seriously analyzed 17th and 18th century music specializing in the works of Johan Sebastian Bach. In addition to this, he studied jazz with guest teachers from the UDK in Berlin; among these: sax player Tillman Denhardt and drummer Johannes Bockholt. Since September 2002, he has been enrolled as a full time student at the Amsterdam Conservatory's Jazz department, studying with Dutch Bass players, Ernst Glerum and Arnold Doyeweerd and is continuing his classical Bass studies with Peter Stotjn, Peter Jansen and Jasper Somsen.
In Colombia, he has performed in several small festivals and concert halls. Among others, "El sexteto la constelacion de Colombia" an experimental band specializing in folk music from the Atlantic and Pacific coast combined with contemporary music, jazz and rock elements.
In addition he performed with a reggae-rock punk and dub band and he was co-leader of a rock trio and trumpet experimental noise band. Presently he is the double bass player in Ay! Juana.