Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Luis Espaillat. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Luis, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Learning the craft is often a unique journey from every creative – we’d love to hear about your journey and if knowing what you know now, you would have done anything differently to speed up the learning process.

The process of learning the craft starting at an early age and how our ability to learn at different points in our life are reflected though this.

Luis, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I am a recording session bassist but have done many musical tours in the past. Even though my main focus in my work in recordings studios and playing on songs and albums, I still will do live work from time to time.

Bio:

Luis Espaillat is a multi-faceted bassist and musician whose career has spanned many genres and taken him around the world.  His unique sound can be heard in all forms of media from shows on network television such as Roswell, New Mexico, Smallville and King Of The Hill, major motion pictures including S.W.A.T. and American Wedding and even video games including Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 and Project Gotham Racing.

In the studio, Luis can be heard in various genres from the modern country sounds of Bailey Zimmerman’s over 64 million stream and counting hit, “Never Comin’ Home,” country legends like Michael Martin Murphey to contemporary country, Juno award nominees Autumn Hill, the #1 Country Christian song, “I’m There” by Buddy Jewell, TV commercials for the likes of Ford Trucks and Zaxby’s to the Billboard Top 20 hard rock sounds of Eve To Adam.  His sense and respect for the art of the song itself has made him in demand for many songwriters and producers not only in Nashville, but also Los Angeles and New York City.  On the stage, Luis has performed with country stars Jon Pardi, Brett Eldredege (for his big band Christmas tour), Jo Dee Messina, Ty Herndon, Lee Greenwood, Trace Adkins, Jamie O’Neal, Jimmy Wayne, Lindsay Ell, and Pam Tillis, legendary singer/songwriters such as Gavin DeGraw and Jim Messina, rockers such as Tom Keifer of Cinderella, Tantric, The Guess Who, Tony Harnell and Bo Bice, progressive instrumentalist like Johnny Hiland, and even artists that defy normal convention such as country rapper Colt Ford, just to name a few.
A graduate of Berklee College Of Music, Luis also conducts clinics and master classes on the world of studio recording, touring and of course, bass.
Luis resides in Nashville, TN.

Do you think there is something that non-creatives might struggle to understand about your journey as a creative? Maybe you can shed some light?

I feel like I have always had to, “explain” or “justify” what it is I do to non creatives because of a perception that my industry might have to those that do not work in or around it. Some tend to think it’s not a, “real job” or that we might not take our craft as serious as someone else in another field of work. That if you’re not famous to them, you are not successful. In the past, I’ve used their local symphony musicians as an example. I ask if they know their names individually and, if not, ask if they feel that any less accomplished or successful.

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

For me, it is the intangible joy that I get from being part of the creative process of making music and, in turn, the intangible joy that the listener/audience gets in a different way from the same thing. How art as whole, weather that be music, visual art, culinary art, etc, really speaks to the individual and how one thing can illicit a very different emotion from one person to the next.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.luisespaillat.com
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/ebassluis
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/luisespaillatbass  
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luis-espaillat-2448194/
• Twitter: www.twitter.com/luisbass 
• Youtube: www.youtube.com/@luisespaillat
• Other: https://credits.muso.ai/profile/55578597-569c-43e5-9441-14e96abfc262 https://www.tiktok.com/@luisespaillatbass https://www.snapchat.com/add/ebassluis