Nicolas Padron

Writer, composer and musician Nicolas 'Nick' Padron lives in Madrid, Spain and in Miami, Florida. He grew up in New York City and studied at New York University in 1987/88. As a performer and musician he recorded with several musical groups, among them Mandrill on Polydor Records; Come to Papa on Infinity Recs. He co-wrote a rock opera for the late Bill Graham, Diablero based on Carlos Castaneda's Don Juan books. In the mid 1980s, he became a solo recording artist for RCA Records, where he produced his own recordings as well as that of other artists in the U.S. and abroad. As a composer and lyricist, he has published over one hundred compositions, including jingles and music for all kinds of television productions. Thirty of his songs have been recorded and released in the United States and in international markets. Between 1988 and 2002, he wrote comedy sketches, interviews (with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Quentin Tarrentino and others) and performed in several top TV shows in Spain (with Javier Barden, Pedro Almodovar...) including the highly acclaimed, award winning series ...Esta Noche Cruzamos El Mississippi (1995-1998) In the 90s, he took up writing prose in earnest. Since then, his short stories have appeared in numerous publications and collections in the United States, Canada, Spain and Japan, among them The Numbers Vendor, published in over fifteen print and web literary journals worldwide. His novella, It Tolls For Thee, was rated number one at Zoetrope All-Story in October 2002, and is currently under consideration by a Madrid, Spain, film production company. His novel, The Good Terrorist, was an Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award finalist in 2008.