Julio Cesar Faria Industrial Engineer born in Venezuela in 1952. My connection with the music started at a very early age. My mother, Josefina Larrazabal de Faria, was a piano teacher and our house in Maracaibo was one of the very few in town with a piano, so the concepts about music theory and solfege were around me since I was just a little boy. I worked as industrial engineer during 27 years for the Venezuelan oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), 4 years in Maintenance and 23 in the Materials Organization as Inventory Planner, and also in Purchasing and Warehousing. My relationship with PDVSA ended in 2003, when me and others 20.000 workers were fired for political reasons, very proudly I must say. My passion for music is great but what I love the most is live performances. When I used to live in Venezuela, I was able to attend concerts of my favorite artists as Simón Díaz, Jesús Sevillano, Soledad Bravo, Cecilia Todd, Serenata Guayanesa, Grupo Raices, Quinto Criollo, Maria Teresa Chacín, Esperanza Márquez, El Pollo Brito, Rubén Blades, Rocío Durcal, Marc Anthony, Eric Clapton and several “Gaita Zuliana” bands, among them Gran Coquivacoa, Rincón Morales and Cardenales del Exito. In the last 9 years, here in the USA, I’ve been able to attend concerts by Carlos Vives, Willie Colon, The Rolling Stones, Elton John and Cold Play. My first incursion in choral groups was when I joined the choral group of my High School, Gonzaga College, in Maracaibo. After That experience I dedicated all my free time to my other passion: the soccer. After many years, the Hispanic Choir of Houston (HCH) is the second choral group in which I take part. Currently I am performing as a bass, and I am enjoying it and learning a lot. The Latin American bolero is the kind of music that I love to interpret sing the most, but at HCH we have been challenged to sing other genres, as madrigals, bossa-nova and even classical music. And we have been up to the task.