Hi all my name is Inti Maldonado!:

IntiGalaxy Productions its my effort to offer a variety of good quality services to Artist, Musicians and Organizations trying to Develop their projects and/or Ideas. I’m Based in New York City, USA, with my production suite (the IntiGalaxy Studio) located at 5 mins from Manhattan in Long Island City Queens.

But…Who’s Inti Maldonado?:

Since I normally don’t like Bios, (I think everybody tries too hard to impress the readers with these things) I’ll just try to explain how I got where I’m at, and how I learned to do all the things I do.
I’m from Caracas, Venezuela. Lived there till I was 19 years old and then (don’t really know why) decided to move to New York. I’ve been here since then.
At the age of 14 I went to a Yamaha institute of music to learn guitar. Later on signed up to study at the conservatory of music “Jose Angel Lamas”. Right about that time and to fulfill my “Rock Guitar Hero Needs” (NOT THE GAME) I started to take lessons with a great guitarist called Miguel Gonzales (Franco de Vita, Maria Rivas, and many more).
During this time I was also playing with many local bands. One of those bands “Thorvald” won the first “Jim Morrisson Music Festival” competing against 28 bands from all around the country. With that same band I’ve got to play at the “Festival de Nuevas Bandas” of 1996…if I remember well. Then I left Caracas.

New York, New York:

The first few years in this city were as hard as they get to any immigrant trying to be part of this wonderful but difficult environment. But after a couple of “God’s Chess Moves” I was back to playing and studying music.
Just to make it short, I informally studied jazz, harmony and orchestration with any institution and/or music teacher I could get my hands onto. I started playing for the United Methodist Church as a Musical Director for churches and Choirs around the NYC area and later around the country. I also recorded a few albums for the General Board of Global Ministries as well as performing as a guitarist for many of their events. Around that time I also had a chance to work for Musical Theater companies as a Musical Director and/or guitar player for their productions.

By then I had the opportunity to play for many latin artists that were big back in the 80′s and also for some that were currently big like: Olga Tanon, Amanda Miguel, Chucho Avellaned, Nicola Divari and some others.
At the same time I got involve with the Latin Rock Scene (Going back to my roots! finally) when I became the lead Guitar Player for a band called “Chacao”. This later lead me to work with professional cover bands like Joe RockStar (4 years around the North east Coast), Discipulos de Jesus (10 years as the House band of La Kueva), and Resurrection (Short but consistent run as the house band of D’antigua). All this left me with a catalog of about 36 Bands in 20 years of playing.

Transition to Production:

During all that, I was (without knowing) developing my music production skills…

By 2001I started to work with local artists, experimenting in creating a process to develop new music with little money and no Record Deals.
I even wanted to offer more than that, so I later decided to learn web design (to support the projects), Recording (live and at the studio) and Live sound.
The fact is that I suffered so much trying to develop my own ideas, that I wanted to make the road a bit simpler for new generation of immigrants that come to this city, or at least give them an option to develop their ideas and dreams.

I can not believe that the Latin Rock scene in NYC have never nested a Big signed band, and I want to do my part (whatever that might be) to improve the odds!

Thanks!:

Thanks for spending the time reading this!
To conclude I invite you to go around the site and take a look at all the projects, productions and sites I had the chance to work on! And you’re always welcome to contact me for free consultations about your ideas and projects…
see ya