erness

London, UK

Ernesto Mendoza Maldonado, who artistically uses the name of Erness, is a composer and singer of Venezuelan origin, also of Spanish nationality, currently residing in London (United Kingdom), born on May 31, 1983. Erness has been influenced by music since he was very young. and when he was only 5 years old he became part of a very important choir movement in Venezuela called “Movimiento Coral Cantaragua”. In this group he was trained in singing by the hand of the director Zenaida Muñoz and began in the white voices until becoming part of the adult choir and the group of dark voices of Cantaragua. At the same time he studied theory and music theory and Classical Piano with the teacher Caridad Verjano and although he also plays the guitar, he is self-taught in this last instrument since he learned individually practising with his first instrument. He discovered that he had the ability to express emotions by composing songs at the age of 13 when he created his first lyrics and music