"Music is my home."

Bruno's history plays a huge role in his music. He was born in Portland, Oregon but spent most of his childhood living in Spain with his family. Most of his extended family still lives in Spain, including his little cousins. When he was ten years old and living in Spain, he began beatboxing because he saw it on the British X Factor and wanted to give it a try. His close friends encouraged him to continue beatboxing because they enjoyed it.

One day, his dad, Carlos, bought an electric drum kit and was trying to do a simple pattern when Bruno decided to try out drumming. He impressed Carlos so much that he began taking drumming lessons when he was 12. He went to one of his first concerts, Simple Plan, shortly after he started taking lessons. He realized he could be the mosh pit KING if he wanted to be. At this point, Bruno was playing guitar with one of his brothers quite often. He was even part of a punk-rock band while he was living in Spain.

"Whenever I'm in Spain, it feels like home but with something missing. And then I come to America, and it feels the same way. This can be really frustrating, but it's mostly a privilege of being able to bridge these two worlds in my daily life. I use my music as Sond3r to cross cultures. Music is really a universal language, after all. We're all just citizens of the world."

"At the end of 8th grade, my aunt gave me a DJ board so I started DJing and making 10-minute mixes of house music. Then, my whole family moved back to Portland. After I moved, my interest in music skyrocketed. I started messing around with GarageBand, like everyone does, back in 2012."

"When we moved to Portland, I told my parents I needed a drum kit or I wasn't going to move...so I got a drum kit upon our arrival."

"When I was 15, I started using logic software, which is way more professional than GarageBand. At this point, I haven't had any formal training in music so I just knew everything by ear. Now, I actually know how to read music, but that's mostly because I'm a music technology major."

Bruno loves to incorporate other musicians into his music, like the talented August King and David McKean.

"I lived in Mexico for like a third of my life and Bruno has lived in Spain for a lot of his life. So both of us feel like we belong to two different places.. but at the same time, we both feel like we don’t belong in either place... Bruno is a fantastic human who is a brilliant combination of cultures and has had a life that has given him a foundation to not only combine those cultures musically (through combining electronic music with Spanish guitar and singing elements) but bring people together across cultural boundaries."-Abbie

Bruno's sophomore year of high school, he had the opportunity to DJ the Valentine's Day Dance, which was his first real gig. He had some of his friends rap over the mix he did. After the dance, people were tweeting about his performance which helped him create a reputation at his school. He cites this as the 'beginning of it all.'

"One of the things that makes me the happiest is the innocence of children and how they have absolutely no filter." Bruno discussed how this innocence vanishes once we reach a certain age and seems to only be exposed when we're drunk. "It's like kids are just drunk always.*laughs*"

Spiderman, AKA August King, rocking out.

Rafael Newman, one of Bruno's friends, was brought in to perform for this Halloween show. Bruno thinks that incorporating live musicians into his music gives him a unique twist and helps him cross cultures through his music.

"One of my fondest musical memories is when I DJed before Jurassic 5. People were breakdancing during the set and they didn't even realize it was my own work. I had one girl come up to me and ask what the song was because she was trying to Shazaam it, which wasn't working obviously. This was one of the moments where I realized that I can do this for my life and my career."

"The Halloween show was also one of my favorite performances. I was playing music I grew up with mixed with some hip-hop beats and live musicians. It felt like I was bridging my two worlds-Spain and America."

"When I moved to Portland in 8th grade, it was really difficult. In Spain, I was one of the best English speakers in my class, but it didn't feel that way once I arrived in America. My first day, I ended up eating lunch in the bathroom while listening to music, because I couldn't hardly understand anyone. I think I was listening to ZPU who is one of my biggest inspirations. Whenever I listen to ZPU, it makes me feel incredibly nostalgic of this time in my life. I definitely learned more English in three months than in ten years in Spain *laughs*"-Bruno

Bruno decided to call himself Sond3r because sonder refers to the realization that every passerby has an entire, unique life just like you. "Our perceptions are our reality."

Bruno wants to work more on his aesthetic and creating music that's a blend of Spanish with hip-hop and funk. He wants to create an original, authentic sound that makes people feel something. He's even planning on dropping an EP soon full of new mixes. He refuses to release the name of it, but he told me some of the possible ideas... He wants to incorporate live musicians into his EP, just like he did at his last show.

"One of my long-term goals is to create a genre of this music I'm making. *laughs* Don't worry, I know it's been done before! I just want to contribute positive art. It's been amazing because I've been able to support myself through my art so I was able to quit my job washing dishes. It makes me so happy to watch people smile and have a great time at my shows. It's so reassuring that this is what I want to spend the rest of my life doing. I can't wait to see how I'm going to evolve as a musician."