Oskar cartaya biography

Oskar Cartaya is a bassist, composer, arranger and producer, based in Los Angeles. He is also working on a new solo CD with his band Enclave. OC: I was blessed to grow up in an environment where music was the center of pretty much everything. Coming from a non-musical family, no one before me had any adventures down this road. I had all the support anyone can dream off!

From classical to latin and everything in between, that was my experience growing up. OC: I went to a performing arts school and I played in every possible situation, from youth symphony orchestra, jazz band, chamber orchestra, contemporary music group and so on. At age 15, I started doing all kinds of gigs, from salsa bands to local pop artists.

By he time I left the island at age 18, I was a working musician. Frank Gambale was one of my classmates and Scott Henderson had just graduated. We would play non-stop, from the moment school opened until they kicked us out! Alex lived in Puerto Rico for about ten years, so he knew a lot of the people I had been working with.

BIOGRAPHY. Oskar Cartaya.

We started playing and afterwards he asked me where I was from. FBPO: Can you identify a turning point, a defining moment, when you realized you were definitely going to have a career in music? OC: Yes.