Juan Carlos Paz y Puente

Juan Carlos Paz y Puente

Juan Carlos Paz y Puente is a Mexican born musician & educator. Prof. Paz y Puente is the former Senior Vice President of Marketing & A&R for Warner Music Mexico and is currently the Special Advisor to the Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Abbywho Foundation, (Fundación Abbywho).

Prof. Paz y Puente is one of the founders of the Fermatta Music University with Campuses in Mexico City and Guadalajara, Jalisco (Fermatta is the only specialized music University in Mexico to give bachelor's degrees in contemporary music certified by Mexico's Secretariat of Public Education [S.E.P.] and offers an accredited four-year bachelor's degrees with majors in composition, performance & music production and engineering). Prof. Paz y Puente is a member of the Advisory Council for the Board of Directors of the Academia de Música Fermatta.

Early career

As a musician he began playing the drums and 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 Durcal all of with which he toured extensively.

Juan Carlos Paz y Puente was a Musical Director for the Placido Domingo and Friends 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.

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, Lucero, Jon Anderson, Peter Erskine, John Carpenter, Gregg Bissonete, Randy Waldman, Maná, Café Tacvba, Clare Fischer, Jose José, Guadalupe Pineda, Napoleón, Jorge Hernández from Los Tigres del Norte, Enrique Nery, Alejandro Fernandez, Emmanuel, Ana Bárbara, Edith Márquez, Los Temerarios, Ana Gabriel, Mauricio Abaroa, Bill Schnee, Lee Sklar, Tim Pierce, Narada Michael Walden, Robbie Buchannan, Dave Frazer, Fabrizio Grossi, Francisco Céspedes, La Ley, Humberto Gatica, Ricardo Montaner, Bebu Silvetti, Luis Fernando Ochoa, Daniela Luján, Fernando Osorio, Emmanuele Rufinengo, Carlos Chávez Symphonic Orchestra, Eduardo Diazmuñoz, Loris Ceroni, Mark Kamins, Jim Gaines, Joey Mosk, Piero Cassano, Thalía, Arturo Velasco, Jon Anderson, Erich Bulling, Michael Thompson, Bruce Gowdy, Mijares, Denise De Kalafe and Guillermo “Memo” Gil to name but a few.

As a Producer, he also participated in the Spanish version of “You’ll See” for Madonna, written by Paz Martínez and produced by David Foster.

Awards & 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 Cespedes 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.

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 (lead singer of the Rock N Roll band ELAN), Recuerdos y Tequila 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 Acuna (Elvis Presley, U2, Weather Report) Brian Bromberg on bass (Dizzy Gillespie, Michael Buble) 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

• Elan, album Recuerdos y Tequila credit: Co-producer and arranger
• Elan, album Street child credit: Arranger
• Clare Fischer, album Introspectivo credit: Producer
• Francisco Céspedes, album Vida Loca credit: Producer
• Francisco Céspedes, album Donde Está la Vida credit: Producer and Composer
• Café Tacvba, album Revés / Yo soy 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 Frente a ti credit: A&R and Executive Producer
• Edith Márquez, album Caricias del cielo credit: A&R and Executive Producer
• Lucero, album Mi Destino credit: Composer
• José José, album Homenaje en vivo 30 años credit: Arranger
• El Tri, album Sinfónico credit: A&R and Executive Producer
• El Tri, album Fin de siglo credit: A&R
• El Tri, album Cuando tu no Estás credit: A&R
• Ricardo Montaner, album Con la London Metropolitan Orchestra credit: A&R
• Ricardo Montaner, album Es Así credit: A&R
• Alex Lora , album Lora su Lira y sus Rolas credit: A&R