Milton Carrero
Music, Book & Lyrics

Milton Carrero is an independent journalist and a singer-songwriter. As a special correspondent for the Los Angeles Times in Puerto Rico, he covered the aftermath of Hurricane María in 2017 as well as the historical protests at Calle de la Resistencia in 2019. He has published two albums as a performer: Transparente y Desnudo and Inside a Cave, which was funded through a Kickstarter campaign and recorded at the legendary caves of the Sacromonte neighborhood in Granada, Spain. He is the co-host of Jazz Inverso, a weekly poetry radio show, on which he has interviewed some of his personal music heroes including Paco de Lucía, Ziggy Marley, Anoushka Shankar, Roy Brown, Residente, Miguel Zenón, El Gran Combo, and Inti-illimani, among others. He has a Master's Degree in Journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and currently resides in his hometown of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, with his wife and three children.

Maritxell Carrero
Producer

Maritxell Carrero is a film, television, and theater actress. She most recently portrayed Anabella de Leon in the L.A. Theatre Works national tour of Seven, commissioned by Vital Voices. She was the lead actress in Peter Sellars' opera The Indian Queen, recipient of five 2015 Golden Mask Awards. In addition to acting, she is also a singer-songwriter and a staple in the Bomba community, the Afro-Puerto Rican music genre. Maritxell holds an MFA from UC San Diego and is the writer/producer of A Revolutionary Mystic, a biographical one-woman show retracing the life of famed Puerto Rican activist Lolita Lebrón. She was part of the multicultural production of All My Sons at Hollywood's Matrix Theater, winner of the 2012 NAACP Image Award for Best Ensemble. She is based in Los Angeles and is the proud sister of the writer.

Denise Blasor
Director

Denise Blasor is the former Artistic Director of LADiversified and is currently Associate Artistic Director of The Bilingual Foundation of the Arts. She’s appeared extensively on stage as an actress, recently in The Madres at Skylight Theatre and in Chicago at Victory Theatre. Other theatre credits include world premieres of Juana La Loca, June in a Box, Heart Song, Ten Tiny Love Stories, Los Muertos, Wild in Wichita, Dark, her adaptations of House of Bernarda Alba, The Three Sisters, and Blood Wedding. As a director in Los Angeles, some of her past favorites include Fefu and Her Friends (named Best Play by the L.A. Times), Blade of Jealousy, No Exit, Wild in Wichita, Ghost of Lote Bravo, Marisol, Anna in the Tropics, and Cristo Vive. In film and television, she has appeared  in the recurring role of Doña Rosa in Snowfall, as Ceci in Disney's Coco, in A Place Among the Dead (directed by Juliet Landau), Noriega, God’s Favorite (with Bob Hoskins), and Death in Granada (with Andy Garcia). She’s a recording voice artist and her film, Dentro De La Casa De Bernarda Alba, was nominated as Best Short by the Imagen Award Foundation. 

Chafik "Chill" Lahzami
Producer

Known as "Chill," Chafik is from Tunisia by way of Switzerland, where he grew up. He's the founder and CEO of Rollin' Dice Productions, a company active in the fields of localization and post-production as well as music production. In film and TV, he has overseen the successful completion of over 30,000 localization projects for clients such as Warner Bros., Sony, Fox, Disney, Netflix, Paramount, Sundance, Amazon, and IFC Films. As a music producer, he's collaborated with a variety of artists such as funk legend Roger Troutman, along with Grammy® winners Dee Dee Bridgewater, Michael Brecker, and Youssou N'Dour. Through its team of songwriters, producers, and engineers, Rollin' Dice has worked on over 300 music projects ranging from R&B to Pop, Jazz, Soul, Electronica, and Hip Hop.

MUSIC TEAM

Juan A. Matos
Musical Director, Producer & Arranger

Originally from Ponce, Puerto Rico, Juan Andrés Matos is a Los Angeles-based composer and pianist. He began his music studies at the Escuela Libre de Musica in Ponce, before attending the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Instituten Der Jazz & Rock Schulen in Germany, and the Cornel School of Contemporary Music in Los Angeles. Since 2012, Juan has written music for numerous features including Puerto Rican film Yo Soy Un Político (HBO GO) and the short-film musical Talk About It featuring Maia Mitchell from Freeform's Good Trouble. In 2019, Juan composed a Latin American orchestral album, which he recorded and conducted at Abbey Road Studios in London. Juan has worked as a keyboard technician and synth programmer for the L.A. Philharmonic Orchestra and Broadway shows such as Hamilton, Kinky Boots, Amelie, and Grey Gardens.

Ramon Velarde
Producer & Arranger

Ramon Velarde is a Los Angeles-based guitarist, composer, and producer who originally hails from Guadalajara, Mexico. He began his music career in Mexico and became a Warner Mexico recording artist in 2001. In Los Angeles, he earned his M.A. in Contemporary Performance Guitar in 2014. He writes, produces, and performs music for artists, television, and advertising. He co-wrote "Olvídame" (2015) for Elis Paprika, as well as the first single of Maria León's solo career, "Amor Ilegal" (2017). Ramon's work has been featured on TV shows such as From Dusk Till Dawn, Pretty Little Liars, Mayans, and Party of Five, along with advertisements for companies including Spectrum, Dignity Health, and Curaçao.

Vanessa Ortiz Avilés (@voa787)
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Mazen El Alaili (betherebefunky.com)
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