Juan Laya
London
Born in Caracas - Venezuela, his musical influences are rooted in 1970s funk and disco sounds that spawned contemporary dance music.
Coming from a very musical family, got very involved with music at a very early stage in his life. His mother, who was a distinguished vinyl collector, played an important role feeding him with various musical influences such as latin, rare groove, funk, disco and Jazz.
Having worked alongside artist, producers and DJ’s like Joey Negro, Opolopo, John Morales, DJ Afro (los Amigos Invisible), Jose Padilla (Cafe Del Mar), Xantoné Blacq, Omar Lye-Fook, Cool Million, Leroy Burgess, Jorge Montiel, Dimitri from Paris, Pete Herbert and Al Kent, Juan Laya has established his reputation as one of the main characters of the Disco-Funk scene in his base city: London, as well as the rest of the world. Juan Laya is also the songwriter and co-producer of Los Charly's Orchestra, The Boogie Man, Andre Espeut Quintet, Chennez & The Midnight Players.
His productions have been leading the charts of independent music around the world for more than a decade. His music and productions are constantly supported by some of the most influential personalities like: Todd Terje, Pete Tong, Craig Charles, Tom Moulton, Danni Krivit, Quinton Scott (Strut Records), Jim Stanton (Horse Meat Disco), Paul Miller from the BBC.
Sony Music, Universal Records, Z-Records, BBE and Imagenes Recording are the main record labels currently supporting his work.
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