Juan’s first guitar teacher was Ramiro Isaza Mejía, from the National University of Colombia. He studied Music with emphasis in classical guitar with Carlos Rocca Lynn at Universidad de los Andes. He has taken master classes with classical guitarists such as Aniello Desiderio, Betho Davezac, Carlos Barbosa Lima, Costas Cotsiolis, Fábio Zanon, Sharon Isbin, Ricardo Cobo, Lito Romero, Michael Newman, among others. Juan Carlos stopped playing the guitar for few years to dedicate himself to his other great passion: literature. He holds a master's degree in literature and a doctorate in literature, both from the Universidad de los Andes as well. Over time, Juan Carlos has become a passionate poetry reader who very occasionally comes up with a good idea and/or with a kind of descent verse. He has written two completely unknown poetry books: Selfies: Plumas de la voluntad (2017), and another whose title is a little long and he does not even want to bother mentioning. He has been writing a third attempt of his first novel for a few years and at this moment he does not even know if he is going to finish it. In any case, he is not in a big a hurry. Juan Carlos has studied literature with personalities such as Sophocles, Aeschylus, Aristotle, Horace, Virgil, and Sappho, to mention only some of the first ones. He has worked in the literary archives of Colombian writers like the poet María Mercedes Carranza and Rafael Humberto Moreno-Durán. His academic interests, among many others, are the theory of autobiography, and the impossibility of the novel of the second half of the XXI century in Latin America (he is not that optimistic). He thinks that this little “bio” could not be written if he had not come across “Autobiography as De-Facedment” by Paul de Man. That is why he really enjoys thinking about people´s bios and, above all, epitaphs. Like everyone, Juan Carlos is a multifaceted person, so he usually rejoices when recalling one of his friends (Vicente Guedes) when he said: “My soul is a hidden orchestra; I don’t know what instruments, what violins and harps —[and guitars!]— drums and tambours, sound and clash inside me. I know myself only as a Symphony.” In 2021 he moved to the United States since his mother, his sister and her two adorable children are living here. He had the opportunity to teach Spanish at Monmouth University in 2023, although he is still waiting for other opportunities. In 2023 he also joined this amazing group of people who is the NJGO, where he serves as a section one guitarist.