My first exposure to hip-hop culture came through my older brother, who got hooked on the rap scene back in ’89 by listening to *Rap in Madrid*, Run DMC, and Tone Loc.
Around the same time, on my way to school every day, I’d see a graffiti piece high up on a water tank in the Campamento neighborhood. That someone was El Muelle. I started obsessively copying his signature in my notebook, though I don’t think this was anything original among the kids back then.
It was in the late ’90s that I started creating my first pieces, inspired by those of the local writers who had already been tearing up the walls for a while. Since my thing was drawing and comics (Mortadelo y Filemón, Superlópez, Marvel), it didn’t take me long to start incorporating characters into my murals, and I’ve continued doing so to this day, alternating or combining semi-wildstyle lettering with original characters or ones “sampled” from comics, cartoons, or old advertisements. All for the simple pleasure of doing it and meeting people in this scene to geek out with a little.
