EL INGENIERO
From bolero to bachata, from tango to salsa — experience the sound of Latin excellence.
Luis Fernando Quintero, aka El Ingeniero, “The Engineer”, started at a very young age playing drums and minor percussion for "Gaita" groups (a western Venezuela genre) in his beloved Colegio Humboldt. He was also encouraged by his mom and siblings to sing Venezuelan folk songs in all family gatherings. Much later, working as an oil and gas engineer in the Far East and then worldwide, Luis sang in countless countries all types of Latin genres: tango, merengue, salsa, bachata, bolero.
El Ingeniero has been a soloist for the Intevep Choir in Venezuela (directed by Raúl Delgado Estévez, together with El Cuarteto); Synthesis in Philadelphia, with the exceptional guitarist Lázaro Herrera; with Dislocados (Ilya Yeresko) in Ukraine; Los Morenitos (Toni Musianto) and Primavera (Darbeni Susilo) in Indonesia; Fuego Latino (Willman Smith) in Singapore; Sin Fronteras (Roberto Morales) in Moscow, Mary's Band (Mary Frómeta) in Houston, etc.
Music led to videos, and videos led to movies. Now El Ingeniero is putting all his project management multilanguage-worldwide expertise to hit the ground running in his career as a movie producer, music composer and soloist with an original, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, but always entertaining and catchy project of extraordinary quality: Sghettisawz Productions.
Esa Carta
ESA CARTA, which means "That Letter," was originally written as "Fue esa Carta" ("It was that Letter") by Rosanela Quintero in 1987. The song tells the story of a girl who writes a love letter to a guy that she sees from her window. The music was originally a ballad recorded with Rosanela singing and playing the piano (only instrument). In 2019, Luis F Quintero purchased the rights of "Fue esa Carta" from Rosanela and made the following changes: The title was shortened to "Esa Carta." The genre of the song is now a Dominican merengue. The singer is a man that writes a letter to a woman, and a fast improv was added in the middle of the song.
The new concept was handed over to Dominican Rafael Miliano who made the arrangements, played the piano and incorporated the percussion from Venezuelan Rhumer Mora. The music score was handed then to Colombian Willman Smith Florez, who became the music producer. Sound editing was done by Ramón Valery (Miami). The mixing engineer was two-time Latin Grammy winner Darío Peñaloza (Caracas) and mastering by Jesús Jiménez.
The video has four components: a) the storyline, b) dancers, c) musicians, and d) the singer. Venezuelan veteran filmmaker Caupolicán Ovalles created the sequence between the four components. Theater actress Sarah Ash, from Friendswood, Texas, plays the lady in the story, while El Ingeniero plays the gentleman and sings.