About Hector Contreras
If you want to hear music that will make you feisty and put some life in your bones then you need to hear the music of Hector Contreras.  This versatile musician creates Latin jazz, soundscapes and soundtrack music, all imbued with Contreras’ unique personality.  This music is expressive, full of life, as deep as the soul and totally absorbing.  It’s difficult to pull one’s self away from Contreras’ music once it has started playing.

“Music is a divine expression of the spirit that is manifested through human beings.”  So believes Contreras and he has hit upon much truth.  If anything in man’s world can claim divine influence, certainly it is music.  What else can touch the human spirit the way it does?  Where else can you find wordless communication so sublime?  What else can influence the mind and heart of humanity the way music does?  The fact that Contreras knows this presents a clue to the effectiveness of his musical styling.  His utmost respect for music and his recognition of its special qualities enable him to use music the way it was meant to be used.

“The emotions (of music) can reach the dept of our spirit.  The feelings of joy, excitement, serenity and sensuality are but some of the aesthetics that are experienced.”  Contreras sees the deep ways in which music causes reactions in a person and plays on that, carefully bringing to life songs and compositions that reach far into the heart of the listener, creating a bond between the one who hears the music and between that listener and Contreras himself.

Not a single human being denies the power and necessity of music.  And every human being is struck with the need for purpose.  It’s no surprise then, that Hector Contreras is driven by this belief.  “Music is the expression that gives significance to the essence of purpose.”  Inspiration and energy and desire flow so freely from Contreras’ music that the listener finds himself inspired, his battery charged, and finds that the troubles of the world weigh less heavily.

“What inspires me is any emotional experience or feeling, strong or weak.  True inspiration comes from a divine source, which is my deepest sense of spirit.”  Contreras is aware of the spark of the divine that dwells in the heart of every man.  Regardless of where one believes that spark comes from, it is there, and it is part of you to which Contreras speaks with his irresistible music.

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