A head of curls that you can see from your peripheral vision, I’m broken by Pantera at full volume playing in his airpods. Carlos Medina, a junior in high school, is a wrestler, weight lifter, and guitarist. Carlos has a dream of becoming a musician; creating music with his band and sharing that music with an audience.
Carlos recalls the introduction to the music he now calls his own:“I was listening to music, and then this random song came up, and then I heard guitar. So I got interested, so I started to listen to more metal music, and I listened to Deftones first, and that’s what got me into the music I like now.” he states. After this new type of music it trickled down to create his love for guitar. After playing guitar for 3 years, he’s been able to become a part of a band. “Well obviously I wanna start creating music, you know being in the studio with my buddies making what sounds good to us, but what I truly dream to do with our music is to go on stage and play in front of people and see the music affect them.” he says with a bright grin.
Carlos isn’t just a guitar player; he also balances doing wrestling during the winter season and being a full-time student. He speaks of the sacrifice he had to do for that. “I kind of had a sacrifice guitar for that, because I had almost no time for it, because it would be school, practice, dinner, shower and sleep.” He says with a serious tone. Even dealing with the sacrifice of giving up guitar for some time. The love and emotions that lay within music still stay with Carlos. “If you like music just as much as I do in just about any instrument you can hear the raw emotion and soul out into the playing by some of the greatest musicians out there and it’s an amazing feeling to me” he says.
A person can never be alone in the journey to their future. Carlos has support from all sides of his family and friends. His family gave support in a specific way. “They somehow found my Tiktok, and they saw my videos, and they said, that’s really good. You really got to do something with that.” Carlos states. With support from his family, the work he does with his band is almost lucky. “It’s just random. We can’t really force it. Just comes out of nowhere. So you just play one wrong note, and then you can say, “Oh, that sounds good.” He laughs through every word. Carlos will continue to walk down the halls with his head high and Pantera blasting in his ears. He’ll continue to work towards his dream of creating music and hopes it takes him all the way to a stage.
