- Born
- Birth nameLuis Alberto Guzmán Peña
- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- Luis Alberto Guzmán was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, the son of Josefina Peña and Luis Alberto Guzmán. He entered the world of film music in his native city making the full length feature film called Quiero ser fiel (2014) (2014). He soon continued working with Quiero ser fiel (2014) director Joe Menendez in his next film Ladrones (2015) (2015).
He was asked to score Veneno (2018) in 2018 for director Tabaré Blanchard. The film went on to win best picture at Premios La Silla (2018) in the Dominican Republic and earned him his first award as composer.
Some of his other scores include La vida de los Reyes (2021) and El humor en los tiempos del COVID (2022).
Luichy and his wife, Dominican actress Carolina Rivas, live in Santo Domingo and he is father of three children.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- SpousesCarolina Rivas(October 22, 2005 - present) (2 children)Damelia Cruz(1998 - 2003) (divorced, 1 child)
- Often works with director Joe Menendez
- The music he writes is thematic so that each character in the films he scores are identified by their theme. Extensive use of leitmotifs.
- Frequently hires Allan Leschhorn to record and mix his scores
- Frequently hires Mayreni Morel to orchestrate his scores
- Inspired by John Williams' Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).
- Frequently works with director Joe Menendez.
- Co-founder (with Carolina Rivas) of Santo Domingo based musical theater production company Escénica LC Producciones, which has produced important international plays such as Les Misérables and Rent.
- Children: Gustavo (b. November 2000), Jean Luca (b. December 2008) and Luna (b. October 2012).
- He was completely self-taught most of his adult life. He learned everything he knew through reading and experimenting, until he got his BMus (Bachelor in Music) degree in contemporary music with a Summa Cum Laude honor distinction.
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