cds by Dayramir González

Born and raised in Havana, where his father was renowned Afro-Cuban jazz trumpeter Fabian Gonzalez, he had an epiphany at 13 years of age while performing for his family. “I saw that if I played this,” he says, singing a melancholy, minor key phrase, “they would become quiet and reflective and kind of sad. And when I did this,” singing the same melodic line transposed to a major key and set to a spritely Afro-Cuban groove, “people would be dancing and smiling. I realized I could really develop my music to touch people’s honest emotions.”
Coming up on a Cuban scene rife with transcendent keyboard talent, he decided to carve his own path as a composer and arranger. “That saved my life, finding my voice through my writing and understanding what made me different,” Gonzalez says. “There are so many pianists out there. I understood if I wanted to be a leader, I also needed to be a creator.”