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Name: Miguel Espinosa Ortiz.
Instrument: Keyboards, synths, pianos and vocals.
Place and date of birth: Albacete (Spain), July 2nd, 1980.
Equipment - Live: Korg Triton Series, Kurzweil PC2, Shure SM58, Roland damper and Boss switch pedals and Proel keyboard stands.
Equipment - Recording: Korg Triton Series, Roland V-Combo, Kurzweil PC1x, Novation Supernova, Roland JP8080, Minimoog Voyager, Hammond xk3 and Akai Z4 sampler.
Biography: I remember being very young when I asked for my first keyboard. For that time I wanted to be Jean Michel Jarre!!! My 7th christmas were very special, when my parents bought me a one (I mean, Santa Claus brought me a keyboard!!!). Of course, it came with a Jean Michel Jarre's score booklet. I began receiving classes that year. A few years later, I began with classical piano lessons too. I played then some classical composer "etudes" like Beethoven, Czerny and so on. After being playing for some years, I listened The Doors for the first time. I thought that keyboards were something different from all I had ever heard. I played Light my fire, People are strange, and lots of songs. When I was 16, I met Carlos Lozano and he showed me another way of playing keyboards. Yngwie Malmsteen and his crew. Then I see not all songs can be easily played. We started creating some own songs. It was nothing much proffesional, but it was funny. I have always loved orchestral compositions, so I bought a sequencer keyboard and I create my first compositions. For that time, I began listening some metal bands like Dream Theater, Symphony X and some other bands like Dark Tranquility, Opeth... Some time later I met Danny Elfman, John Williams and Hans Zimmer and in general what a classic composer could be nowadays. Could all that things may be possible? Of course. Today, I continue looking for that great compositions, and Persefone is something near to all that things I have always heard.
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Hobbies: PS2, Xbox, Music.
Influences: Danny Elfman, John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Michael Pinnella, Ray Manzarek, Beethoven, Bach.
Likes: Being at home and play PS2 (soon PS3...)
Hates: Unnecessary noise, losing time.
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Bands: Opeth, Symphony X, Porcupine Tree, The Doors.
Albums: Blackwater Park (Opeth), Twilight in Olympus (Symphony X), Deadwing and In Absentia (Porcupine Tree) L.A Woman (The Doors), and these soundtracks: Batman & Edward Scissorhands by Danny Elfman, Lady in the Water by James Newton Howard, DaVinci's Code, Gladiator and Pirattes of the Caribbean by Hans Zimmer (and Klaus Badeltt).
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Movies: Batman, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Big Fish, ..., Tim Burton's films and Star Wars Saga.
Books: All Drizzt Do'Urden books by R.A. Salvatore (Thank you guy!!), Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.
Games: N/A
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