What are some of your personal milestones along the way?

Since then, you have played all over the world with some of the most renowned artists, done clinic tours and performed on Grammy Award-winning albums. Thanks to Martín Cohen for giving me the opportunity. This is also where also the most important company in the world discovered me, Latin Percussion, who signed me at that age. It was for me one of the most important experiences of my career where I had the opportunity to play on the most important stages in the city of New York. That was my first trip outside of Puerto Rico.

That must have been quite a journey for a young and aspiring musician? I started playing with local bands in Puerto Rico at the age of eight with the Batacumbele group, at 13 with the Roberto Roena band and then with the piano master Eddie Palmieri – and started traveling around the world!īy age 13 you traveled to New York to perform, making you one of the youngest musicians to travel with a band outside of Puerto Rico. You embarked on your professional carrier already at age eight. From there, I was dedicated to study the instrument daily. I discovered my passion in the field of percussion thanks to my father, Saúl Flores, who taught me and bought me records by conguero masters such as Ray Barreto, Mongo Santamaría, Tata Guine among others. How did you discover your passion for these instruments and at that young age? You started playing percussion already at the age of four. Welcome to your new go-to collection, handpicked by one of today’s number-one performers and captured in stunning detail – encapsulated by the iconic aura of the Sear Sound room. Simply put, in Latin music, percussion is just as essential to the groove as the groove itself. If the drums paint the bigger picture and act as the rhythmic heartbeat, percussion is what fills in the blanks and makes sure all the glaring colors and hallmark Latin accents indefinitely shine through. Since then, he has played with some of the most celebrated artists in Latin music, performed on several Grammy Award-winning records and continued to perfect his musical voice. Richie, Brooklyn-born but raised in Puerto Rico, embarked on his journey as a professional percussionist already at the age of 13 and was the youngest musician to ever travel with a band outside Puerto Rico. It was recorded alongside its EZX counterpart at New York’s renowned Sear Sound Studios by Grammy Award-winning and Emmy-nominated engineer Dave Kowalski and sampled by undoubtedly one of the world’s most in-demand percussionists, Richie Flores. The Latin Cuban Percussion EZX was envisioned as a percussive complement to the Latin Cuban Drums EZX and features a collection of the most common percussion instruments used in the wealth of music sorted under ‘Latin’: congas, timbales, bongos, guiros, shakers, woodblocks, cowbells and more.

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