Willy Lopez

Willy Lopez is a graduated sound engineer specialized on Latin American music, he is also a talented composer and musical arranger with a long life experience creating jingles in Spanish for companies such as Coca Cola, Goya and others.

Willy Lopez has a comprehensive career in television and performing arts production; he has worked in marketing for over 35 years.

Mr. Lopez owns his own record company named, Cantipista International, a division of La Guardia Recording Studios established in New York in 1982.  On 1997 he established the Kuraka recording studio located in Tampa, Florida presently he is located in Boston Massachusetts where he recently built and opened a video and music studio.

Son of Portuguese immigrants, Willy Lopez was born in the Peruvian Amazon.   His first contact with music was at the age of six when his father built him a guitar. Mexican movies influenced Willy to play the guitar and sing rancheras (Mexican Music).  At a very young age Willy and his brother performed in various provinces of his country. Later on his adolescent years he decided to pursue his singing career without his brother but this time singing modern ballads.

In 1966 Willy signed an exclusive contract with the recording company Odeon of England in Peru.   In 1968 during the same period of time when his contract with that company came to an end he decided to move to Ecuador.  In Ecuador the recording company Fediscos Del Ecuador offered Willy to sign a profitable contract; due to his extraordinary vocal talent soon he was on the top of the hit parade breaking all record sells in that country for three consecutive years.  Willy was also the lead singer on the television show “Escoja Su Pareja” (Pick Your Partner), broadcast nationally on channel 2 in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

In 1970 Mr. Lopez decided to retire from the stage and television to improve his knowledge as a sound engineer at the Columbia University in New York, and soon he became one of the first Latinos to become a member of the “Sound Engineers Union” on the Big Apple.

From 1972 to 1982 Willy worked as a Shift Engineer at Latin Sound Recording Studios located on 42nd Street in Manhattan, where he recorded some of the productions of the famous Latin music label named La Fania All  Star as well as other Spanish well know vocalists and groups.

On the marketing field Willy worked with Raul Alarcon one of the most wealthy Latinos living in USA and owner of the national radio station La Mega.

In 1982, Willy established his own recording studio, and dedicated himself to produce for his own Recording Label, in which he presently has 15 talented artists.  Mr. Lopez has also great skills on building recording and television studios.