Originally from Puerto Rico, Michael is a 2X Latin Grammy® Award Winning Mix & Mastering Engineer, Bassist and Producer based in Northern California. He is also President & CoFounder of OCHO MUSIC GROUP LLC.
Albums he has engineered have won "Best Tropical Latin Album" (2014, 2013), "Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album" (2015), "Best Children's Music Album" (2015). Recently he was nominated as a producer for Cubadisco® 2024 (the "grammys of Cuba") with various records he mixed and mastered nominated for the same awards in 2021 and 2018.
His work as a music supervisor includes the films "The House That Jack Built" (2013), "Cherry" (2010) and the Lifetime Movie Network TV exclusive "Little Girl Lost - The Delimar Vera Story" (2008). His other company, Latin Pulse Music, runs a network of Latin Music focused websites offering music production services, music and eBook downloads, Latin Music blogs, and music publishing -- among them www.TIMBA.com (Home of Cuban Music) – that in terms of volume of content, is arguably the largest Latin Music website on the planet by far.
Michael's engineering site can be found at www.LatinMusicMastering.com