JAN RIVERA

Puerto Rican guitarist mixes the flavours of home with contemporary flair.

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AS FAR AS debut albums go, few come as fully formed as Jan Rivera’s Existential Paranoia. For the Puerto Rican musician it’s the result of a lifetime obsessed with the guitar. “Growing up, our house used to be the happy place,” he recalls. “People would gather around, watch my dad play and have the best time. That really stuck with me.” As he began his own guitar journey, he looked beyond the celebratory music that echoed around his family home. Soon, he was enamoured by those with a weirdly wonderful approach to six strings. “When I started to listen to artists like Steve Vai and Joe Satriani, I knew that guitar was something that I really wanted to do,” he explains. “But when I went to study guitar at 15,…

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