It was at the end of 2005, a year plenty of problems, struggles and disillusionments for me -just before coming to the U.S.-, when I received as a present from a friend the music of Ben Kweller. I did not know anything about him, but his music took me to another level since I heard his song "I need you back", while we were enjoying the only great time of that period. Those moments were short, but they saved my year, saved me, and made every pain worthwhile. Now they are one of my life treasures and Kweller's music is part of my life B.S.O. (Photo: Ben Kweller and I at MO JO'S)



His songs were not just sounding as a background, they were corroborating every feeling and action, completing the scene, becoming the artistic vehicle that made my craziness and freedom travel from the inside to the outside. He carries this kind of adiction that makes you play again and again his music, sing it even when you are sleeping. The world is plenty of music, but there are just a few who can give this to another life, and make the difference between a singer and a musical artist. (Photo: Ben Kweller's last album)



One year later, after another meeting with the friend who gave me Kweller's music, and another intense moment, and another goodbye, I arrive here to Columbia with "On my way" cd in my hands, and I find by chance that Ben Kweller is in concert at MO JO'S. I love when destiny plays this game of making a union with special people and situations. And now I can say without any doubt he is an artist. The value it is not in his ability to play any instrument he wants or for having the gift of a nice voice. It is in his creativity, his capacity to transform his own world in music, composing and writing lyrics who communicate something special about a real life. In addition, he can do, in a naturally way, what my teachers in music used to tell me is the act that make music something finished and with feeling: the shades or variations in the expression. All of this comes in union with his natural movements on the stage, and I could feel his energy of being in an ecstasy with life through music.