Born on 25th November 1975 in Santa Fe de Bogotá, Colombia. At the age of 11 he begins his studies of music and guitar at La Casa de la Cultura in the borough of Ciudad Montes. In 1990 he joins El Sistema Nacional de Orquestas Sinfónicas e Infantiles de Colombia BATUTA (a Government scheme for teaching music to youngsters) where he begins to learn trombone.

At the age of 18 he is admitted at the Conservatory of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia where he intensifies his trombone studies. A year later, 1994, he compulsory joins the military service but thanks to his musical talents he manages to evade the military hardware and integrates La Nota 13, the orchestra of the Armed Forces. After fulfilling this duty towards his Country he returns to study at the Conservatory and at the same time he commences his career of Musical Studies with emphasis in Sound Engineering at the Universidad Javeriana de Colombia.

His participation in the community activities led him to set up his own guitar and keyboard academy for children. This was a great success reaching nearly a hundred students!

In Colombia he integrates several music bands such as La Severa Matacera, Grupo Bantu, Grupo Jare, and Safari, among others. At this time he begins his first set up arrangements for live music.

Due to the economic crisis suffered by the country and low work demand for sound engineers, he decides to travel to England in February 2001. In April 2001 he is employed as a musician at the Spanish restaurant El Metro in Fulham Broadway, London. Soon after he is the principal Sound Engineer at La Comunidad Cristiana de Londres (Christian Community of London) at City Temple, Holborn where he orchestrates the sound for a Church with over 3500 members and for many notorious international Christian music bands.

In January 2005 he finalizes his studies of Sound Recording and Music Technology at IMW (UK).

During his first seven years in England he performs as principal engineer at various concerts for renowned Latin artists and bands among which we can find Richie Rey, Nelson y Sus Estrellas, Enanitos Verdes and Los Angeles Negros.

As a producer he has experience in composing and recording several radio commercials, and jingles such as the one broadcasted by Radio Visión transmitted by Spectrum Radio UK.


© 2005 Jaime H. Dussan