Jessie Cartagena

Here's little bit about myself.. I'm originally from Japan. I started playing guitar, singing, and composing songs when I was 13 years old.  One day, I saw a Japanese singer/songwriter named "The Water of Life" singing his own song on a TV program. He completely blew my mind!! I got such a big impact that the next moment, I found myself grabbing my father's old classical guitar in my hands. I moved out to Tokyo as soon as finishing the junior high school simply to become a musician like him. Well, many many things happened out there, just like your life. I ended up being in New York, you know how life goes crazy sometimes and take you to the place you have never even imagined or expected.. The genres of music that I love are Blues, Jazz, R&B, Funk, Philly Sound, Swing, Bossa Nova and so on. I like something funky, jazzy, chic and witty.  At last, my main guitar is Gibson ES-175D from '70s which I believe is one of the best guitars in the world!