Federico Miranda is the guitarist for the Costa Rican music group

Music of Costa Rica

The country of Costa Rica has many kinds of music.Though its music has achieved little international credit, Costa Rican popular music genres include: an indigenous calypso scene which is distinct from the more widely-known Trinidadian calypso sound, as well as a thriving disco audience that...

 Gandhi

Gandhi (Costa Rica)

Gandhi is a Costa Rican rock band formed by Luis Montalbert-Smith , Federico Miranda , Abel Guier and Massimo Hernández . Inspired by British groups such as Pink Floyd, Queen, and The Beatles, and Latin American bands Soda Stereo and Caifanes...

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Early life

When growing up, the young Miranda was always surrounded by music, his sister played the organ and his uncles played guitar. When he was 9 years old he wanted to play violin but when he turned 12 he got his first electric guitar and starting reading books and magazines due to the lack of a teacher, 2 years later he had started his first band. Several years later he became interested in jazz and other genres, which led him to many different teachers. He then went to Berklee College of Music, where his interest towards jazz, flamenco, celtic, and Latin music grew even more. Miranda is also a graduated Electrical Engineer. He has acknowledged the influence of many guitarists including Joe Satriani

Joe Satriani

Joseph "Joe" Satriani is an American instrumental rock guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, with multiple Grammy Award nominations...

 and Eddie Van Halen

Eddie Van Halen

Edward Lodewijk "Eddie" Van Halen is a Dutch-American guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter and producer, best known as the lead guitarist and co-founder of the hard rock band Van Halen, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...

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Gandhi

Federico met Luis Montalbert-Smith

Luis Montalbert-Smith

Luis Montalbert-Smith is the lead singer and co-founder of the Costa Rican music group Gandhi.- Early life:Luis Montalbert-Smith was born on May 22, 1975 in Washington DC, to a Costa Rican surgeon and a physiologist who were studying at Georgetown University at the time. He lived his first years in...

 and Abel Guier

Abel Guier

Abel Guier is the bass guitarist for the Costa Rican music group Gandhi. He also plays with Parque en el Espacio and Villegas, both very well known bands as well....

 in highschool, while Massimo Hernández was met through a friend of Federico's sister. The band started only with Federico and Luis, they played together in a highschool contest and won 2nd place. Abel and Massimo joined the band afterwards and began doing mostly covers and a couple of original songs. They gave their first concert in a bar in San Jose in 1993. Of Gandhi's musicians, Federico is the most acquainted with harmony and theory, he writes most of their musical arrangements.

Solo work

Federico also performs often with his instrumental jazz-fusion group, Baula Project

Baula Project

Baula Project is an album by Federico Miranda created in 2005.Its objective is to raise public awareness on Baula turtles situation in Costa Rica and the degradation of the environment in general.-Track listing:1. "Subir al Sol" - 2:01...

, whose debut album was released in June 2005.
On May 2008 Miranda participated with Baula Project's music in the Guitar Idol online contest and got a score of 837 points even though he entered late and only participated for one week.