Welcome to CitySeas Sound
Music and production have always been recurring themes in my life. I was born in San Francisco from a very musically and artistically inclined musical family. My older brother has been a professional DJ for almost 30 years in the Bay Area and internationally and my younger brother is a very talented drummer and computer engineer. Oddly enough, my parents are not musically inclined at all. Alongside my immediate family, I have been able to play music with my cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents in so many different settings. I have been privileged and blessed to play with so many talented musicians in my family and in different phases in my life. Now in 2019 with 30+ years of music experience now, I am surrounded by many professional and semi-professional musicians and singers that are constantly challenging me to be even better.
When I wasn’t playing music, I was usually supporting these musicians and artist running live sound or working as an audio/visual engineer. I have worked in the live sound and audio/visual setting for almost 20 years and I have done concerts, weddings, funerals, church service, conference, graduations and everything in between. Vocationally, the last 10 years I have usually been on stage or FOH (or Technical Director) and I have had the privilege to have both in my job description several times.
This brings me to the origins of CitySeas Sound. All of this came from a passion project to write, produce, and release an album by myself to now being able to produce and record for other artist now. Feel like all this has been a perfect marriage of the skills and relationships I have built over the last several decades. I am able to support artist on the technical while being able to fill in musically when it is needed. Seeing artist light up (and even cry in joy) when they hear their musical vision come together have been moments that remind me of why I got into the music production space. It has been a fun (and sometimes challenging) journey with a lot of things learned along the way. Excited to see what is ahead.
Joel Cruz |Founder of CitySeas Sound & CitySeas Music