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Fernando Perez was born in the town of Ejea de los Caballeros, Zaragoza, Fernando’s first contact with music was throughout the conservatory of classical music in Spain. After these came numerous private instructors and music centers such as ‘Instituto de Musica’ in Zaragoza, ‘Escuela Cardiel’, ’L’Aula de Musica’ in Barcelona, ‘Escuela de Musica Creativa’ in Madrid, ‘Musicians Institute’ in Hollywood, U.S.A, Maharaja Sawai Mansingh Sangeet Mahavidyalaya in Jaipur, India and Arab Conservatoir du Musique d'Alexandrie, Egypt. In these centers he studied classical and contemporary styles as well as harmony, composition, arrangements, orchestration, ear training, rhythm, sound engineering, production and other special courses.

But his interest took him to learn more directly from artits and their cultures, traveling to different places to not only learn but to experience the spirit of the different musical styles performing with artists from such exotic places as Hawai’i, Cuba, Jamaica, West Africa, Japan, South, Central and North America, Spain, France, Ireland, India, Egypt, Israel, etc.

Always exploring guitar's many forms, starting by the spanish classical guitar, acoustic, electric, Dobros or resophonic guitars and continuing with ohter interesting ones such as african, hawaiian ki Ho'alu (Slack Key) and Kika Kila (Steel Guitar), the ‘slide’ style from Mississippi, Flamenco, or even the curious way of playing guitar in hindustani music found in India. He also explores new horizons reflected throughout his arrangements and compositions based on instruments of different cultures, examples are the japanese Koto, chinese Pipa, african Ngoni and Kora or the arabic Qanun and Oud.