Hi! My name is Reinaldo DeJesus

Good to be on your screen!

I’m a professional musician .

I love playing percussion, drums and keyboards but also, I love putting the sounds I make with those instruments in a DAW and making the speakers blast out cool music.

I have been playing music since I was a little kid in Puerto Rico. I played with many puertorrican artist and musicians.

To make a long story short…

 

My brothers from the reggae band Cultura Profética introduced me to the trombonist William Cepeda and he put me on a plane with his band Afro-rican Jazz to tour the world. It was incredible!

Then I found myself in Boston. A band called Entrain hired me and through gigging with them I connected with my brothers from the band Dispatch. I did a bunch of tours and recordings with them.

My brother Miguel Zenon, who I went to high school with back in PR, called me to go to West Africa for a month. By now I’m a 100% all into the music business for life.

 

I moved to New York City and shortly after that, I found myself at a recording studio with Ms. Lauryn Hill. She put me on a plane to go and tour Europe for three weeks. It was awesome! But before that, Ralph Irizarry called me and I was like WHAT? WHO? Ralph Irizarry?. That is one of the highlights of my life I was super excited to play with his band Timbalaye.

 

Then I decided to call my brothers Zaccai and Luques Curtis and Richie Barshay and we got on a plane in 2006 to tour Southeast Asia. What can I say it was an unbelievable experience.

It was so cool that we did it again but as a trio with the Curtis brothers. It was an unforgettable experience.

 

Then I joined the Broadway show FELA! There, I met my brothers of the Afrobeat orchestra Antibalas (Who I record and travel the world with to this day).

 

Then I found myself making rhythms that Carmelo Anthony would repeat dribbling a basketball for an NBA commercial filmed in Harlem.

 

I think I’ll wrap it up and just leave you with the fact that I LOVE making music and I am on it 24/7. It is what I was born to do. So I invite you into my musical world and hopefully you will agree with me and my sound, and we can connect sometime and create some magical moments together for the world to enjoy. I'm into music for brands, commercials, films, performance. I love studio productions. Many musical things...Or If you want I can also teach you what I know or we can just be friends and hang out and enjoy life in this beautiful world.