Over these past 15 years we've heard the music of Fernando Ortega as if it were the soundtrack to our lives.
We met this extraordinary artist though his early music, which danced to guitars and drums, fueled by the energy of youth yet crafted to the highest standards of pop composition, comparable in its vision and quality to the best of Peter Gabriel and Paul Simon.
This was music rooted in a village near the banks of the Rio Grande, where his family had lived for eight generations. From here it rose from a bedrock of classical training and blossomed through studies at the University of New Mexico and varied life experiences into a sound that embraces country and classical, Celtic, Latin American, and world music, modern folk and rustic hymnody.