mauricio pauly..born on september 8, 1976 in the Clinica Santa Rita as hurting as any labor and as ugly as any new baby. At age 5 he started piano lessons which lasted until he was 13 and started playing bass guitar. At 12 he formed a band with some classmates which included Gabriel Montagné and Cuanja Sanabria. He was the singer. It was known in school as the “Grupo de Sétimo” (7th grade band). This band deformed, as time passed, into Bruno Porter.

He started playing bass auto-didactically applying his piano and music knowledge into it. At 15 he started lessons with Gonzalo de Trejo, now índigo´s bassist. He completed two years of intensive improvisation theory investigation and practice and then complemented it with a period of digestion under the tutory of pianist, Manuel Obregón, between the end of 1995 and the end of 1996.

He began singing at age 12 doing what he could. He took lessons with Mary E. Peck. Mrs. Peck taught him how to sing. Later, in The Universidad Nacional, he did two years of academic singing studies with Douglas W. Gallagher. Douglas is actually his tutor and vocal guide.

These are the bands Mauricio has worked on since he started:

a)Grupo de Sétimo (7th grade band)/Hielo Caliente (Hot Ice): Gabriel Montagné..guitarist, Juan Carlos Sanabria..guitarist, Arturo Merino..drummer, Ignacio Rodriguez..bassist, Mauricio Pauly..singer. Concerts in their school, in the Underaged Presidiary and in the Plaza de la Democracia in 1991. They played some original music and Motley Crue-kind covers.

b)Bruno Porter

c)Tramontana: Julio Molina..acoustic guitar, accordion, harmonica, violin and vocals, Bubi von Breymann..piano, percussion, Mauricio Pauly..acoustic guitar, bass, vocals. Experimental acoustical music composed laboratoricaly by Mauricio and Julio. Concerts in the Teatro de Bolsillo, Contravía (New Music Bar), Humboldt German School auditory and others.

d)Gandhi: Federico Miranda..guitar, Luis Montalbert-Smith..vocals, Massimo Hernández..drums, Mauricio Pauly..bass. He played with this band from their debut in september 1993, until the end of 1994. Gandhi is now about to release their first CD, recorded also in Link Studios and with Ricardo Nieto.

e)Café con Leche: José Capmany..vocals, guitar, Ricardo Nieto..guitar, Javier Chaves..drums, Mauricio Pauly..bass, backing vocals. This was Costa Rica´s top rock band from 1985 until a couple of years ago. They played in Los Angeles, Miami, Panama, Guatemala, and with Mauricio they played in Honduras and El Salvador. He was with them for little more than a year.

f)Manuel Obregón y el ensamble cósmico (M. O. and the cosmic ensemble) Manuel Obregón..piano, Joaquín Rivera..drums, Pepe Chacón..latin percussion, Álvaro López..ethnic percussion, Silvie Durán..vocals, Mauricio Pauly..bass, vocals. This ensemble was formed to celebrate the INTERNATIONAL DAY of MUSIC in the National Contemporary Arts and Design Museum.