santilavadenz

My family has always been surrounded by music. From a young age, I grew up deeply influenced by it, and I am incredibly grateful for that, because it is one of the best things that could have happened to me. I was introduced to the piano at a very young age thanks to my father, who is also a pianist. However, it wasn't until 2020 that I started playing, simply for fun and to experiment, without really being focused on it. In 2024, I discovered a music academy where I studied cello for a while. There, I found a piano that would completely change my relationship with music. That year, I became genuinely interested in the piano and, little by little, fell completely in love with it. I was lucky enough to build a very close friendship with the owner of the academy, who gave me a key to the place so I could practice there on weekends. I started spending countless hours with that piano. I grew incredibly attached to it and developed a connection with it that I had never felt with any other instrument. That same piano is the one that appears in all of my videos and through which many people discovered my music.

Throughout that year and into 2025, my interest in the piano grew enormously. I became increasingly immersed in classical music, especially because I felt it was one of the best ways to push the piano to its limits and discover everything it could express. Although I took some lessons over the years, they were very few, largely due to agreements with my parents. I never felt particularly interested in academic music education or in learning music from a purely theoretical perspective. My relationship with the piano has always been much more personal: learning on my own, exploring, listening, and spending hours playing. That is why I consider myself primarily self-taught. In 2024, I also began composing more and more. I had already created some things before, but that piano brought a huge change to my inspiration. I felt that ideas simply appeared, and that I could express things through the instrument that I hadn't known how to express before.

On October 22, 2025, I decided to record myself playing and upload one of my videos to social media. I had no idea what would happen next, but it ended up being one of the best decisions I could have made. Through social media, I began sharing piano performances and original ideas, connecting with people from all over the world who found something of themselves in my music. Over time, those videos reached millions of people and introduced my music to an audience I never imagined having. But beyond the numbers, what means the most to me is seeing people learn my songs, make covers, create edits, and tell me that my music inspired them to play the piano or simply made them feel something. That is what Santilavadenz is about. Today, I am focused on developing my own sound and releasing original music, while continuing to build a community around the piano and everything that music can express without words. This is only the beginning.