We were lucky to catch up with Mauricio Villanueva recently and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Mauricio, thanks for joining us today. Can you talk to us about how you learned to do what you do?

I learn to do what I do by trying it over and over, it is true what experts tell about the need of doing or trying one thing at least 10 thousand times before you can fully understand the art of it.

Because I am an artist, a performer, and I remember how important have been all the challenges and hard moments in my developing artist life, I wouldn’t change a thing.

The most essential skills that I adopted are:

*Open mindedness
*Patience
*Punctuality
*Detachment when self analyse
*Consciously practicing
*Being present in the moment

The obstacles that stood in my way have been related with money. The lack of monetary resources in my early years as student and professional career to be able to travel, explore, audition more, coaching, rehearsal places, recording sessions, hotels, food, and more so I can have the freedom of just being an artist and immerse my self in the craft.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers

I remember back in Mexico in my first 18 years of life I wanted to become a professional soccer player, but the thought of singing and dancing always pulled something from my guts and my chest.

I grew up in a family of non musicians or at least non professional musicians, my older brother use to play gitar when teenager and I used to admire him just for the effect that his performance caused on others, mostly girls (smily face).

But everything changed once I found my first singing teacher, and from then on everything changed in my life. I stop caring about soccer and dedicated all my attention in my singing lessons, like a snow ball rolling down the mountain I couldn’t get out of the road of becoming a musician, a singer. Since then and step by step I started liking different music, different genres, escalating all the way to OPERA and classical music. I just did not see and end on it, on the contrary, my senses oppend and allow me to appreciate art forms, mostly dance and music.

When I teach singing or dance, what I look for in my students it’s uniqueness. Even thou the core of a technique can be one, the way every single person can learn its different, its personal, and I like the challenge of helping them on finding their own voice or their own ways of expression and most of all, that they find their best selfs.

I think by doing that, I am also helping them in their lives. You become a better self, better person for yourself and for your surroundings.

That’s why I believe people would profit internally working with me as students, or as colleagues professionally in and on the stage.

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

The most rewarding aspect of being an artist is that I get the chance and the challenge of inspire others through my performance to join my community or to attend this type of art.

I get to inspire others to find happiness throughout singing or learning how to social dance with others. I help them or guide them to learn how to be present at the moment and at the same time they can enjoy them selves.

And that also inspires me to keep on going and to become better and stay fresh.     

What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?

My goal or mission is to be able at certain point to have an academy or school of latin arts that can teach the essence of my culture and my musical influences, so in that way you will learn, understand more our latin community, I get to be myself and both profit from the experience.

Contact Info:

• Website: mauriciovillanueva.art
• Instagram: villanuevatenor
• Facebook: Mauricio Villanueva
• Linkedin: Mauricio Villanueva Espinosa
• Twitter: villanuevatenor
• Youtube: Mauricio Villanueva Oficial
• Other: TikTok Villanuevatenor