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into a musical family; his father was a musician and his mother a well known folk singer; he studied composition and arranging at the
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rearranged famous Mozart pieces in a contemporary style, with a large percussion section. Several tracks from it were used as theme tunes to
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played an AM radio optimized mix of de los Ríos's version of
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