C’est en 1990 que Chuck débute ses études de musique. Huit ans plus tard, il obtient son diplôme en contrebasse de « La Escuela Libre de Música ». Il reçoit également l’enseignement de Rich Appleman, coordinateur du Département Bass au Berklee College of Music, lorsque celui-ci séjourne à Mexico en 1998. En 2005 et 2006, Chuck participe à plusieurs ateliers et sessions dans des universités telles McGill et Concordia au Canada. Parmi les musiciens avec lesquels il a collaboré : Marc Berthoumieux, Osmany Paredes, Damien Schmitt, Jeff Cofn, Tom. Coster, Gabriel Hernández, Hans Tammen, Ursel Urslicht, Dave Turner et Ollan Christopher Bell.

He started playing guitar at 12 up in Tijuana, Baja California. He majored in jazz guitar at the Escuela Superior de Música in Mexico City. He attend- ed courses at the Centro Hispano- americano de Guitarra, Tijuana, the Settlement Music School, Philadelphia PA. and the New School University, Nueva York. He taught jazz guitar at the Universidad Veracruzana (JazzUV), Xalapa, Veracruz.

Mexican drummer who is active in the national Jazz scene, he has performed in most of the cultural fests within Mexico, as well as at some others in the USA, South Ameri- ca, and Europe. He has played as a session musician in over 20 recordings edited and distributed in Mexico and abroad with Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz (Abraxas/John Zorn), Aarón Cruz, Marc Berthoumieux, Miguel “Chuck” Rodríguez, Eyal Maoz (Abraxas), Inebrigt Haker Flaten (Atomic), Alex Mercado, Todd Clouser (A love electric), and Tony Grey (Hiromi), just to name a few. At the moment, he plays in projects like Xuc Trio, Iraida Noriega, JAB, Chuck Project, Federico Sánchez, Esteban Herrera Trio, Magnet Animals, Todd Clouser’s Futuredance, and Martin.

He was born in Mexico City. He graduated from the Conservatorio de Música del Estado de México where he received his degree in Percussions. In 2000 he took further lessons at La Habana, Cuba, with professors Roberto Concepción and Inor Sotolongo. In 2003 he attend- ed the XX International Antique Music Course with Jordi Savall at Sant Feliú de Guixols, Catalunya. He received the FONCA “Jóvenes Creadores” grant for the 2015-2016 period. He has played with international artists such as Cyro Baptista, Todd Clouser, Daniel Jodocy, and Marc Berthomeaux; as well as within Mexican projects. Today he lives in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas and teaches vibraphone at the Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas.

Ce musicien précoce monte sur scène dès l’âge de onze ans. Quelques années plus tard, il est vite remarqué par les musiciens de jazz de la scène française et par le milieu de la chanson. Il se produit avec son propre groupe et avec des artistes de tous horizons comme Didier Lockwood, Charles Aznavour, Harry Belafonte, Patrick Bruel, Youn Sun Nah et bien d’autres.... Il joue dans le quartet de Dee Dee Bridgewater pour une tournée de plus de deux cents concerts. Ses talents de compositeur et de mélodiste reconnu l’amènent à écrire pour l’image, le spectacle et la chanson, notamment pour Claude Nougaro, Richard Bona ou Grand Corps Malade. Son premier album ”Les Couleurs d’ici” (1998) nommé aux Django d’Or, et ses deux albums ”Jazz / No Jazz” Volume 1 & Volume 2 (2004) le révèlent porteur d’une originalité, d’une musicalité peu ordinaire. En 2011, il sort de son album «In Other Words» enregistré avec Giovanni Mirabassi, Henri Texier et André Ceccarelli. Dernièrement, il a collaboré avec de nombreux artistes de la chanson comme Maurane, Serge Lama, Andréa Bocelli, Placido Domingo, Grégoire, Zaz, Julien Clerc…

In 1990, I went to New York and through the teachings of enlighted beings like Sheila Jordan, Mimi Ditz and Bob Norton, all of them teachers at City College. In 1993, I returned to Mexico city with a great need to connect with my roots, and with modern Mexico playing with musicians of very different genres, in all kinds of venues, that go from Bellas Artes, to pop theatre Metropolitan, to Sala Nezahualcoyotol, Lunario, and all kinds of clubs and festivals in the country. I`ve sung in Los Angeles, Boston, New York, Houston, Colombia and Spain.

Lulled by the Indian Ocean’s bedtime stories, growing up at the Reunion Island, just by he coast of Madagascar, Flora has been getting on and off stage since early childhood. With a spontaneous personality and a creative temperament, Flora begins her profes- sional career at 16 as a studio accompanist and touring with some of most notorious artists from the Island scene like Dominique Barret, Meddy Gerville and Clarice Técher. Some years later Flora moves to Paris and gets her sing- ing and teaching diploma at the contemporary music school ATLA. Flora is now active with her dif- ferent formats at the jazz circuit of the Mexican Jazz festivals