Santiago Dobles

Santiago Dobles is a Venezuelan guitarist, songwriter, producer and son of Venezuelan symphonic composer Gustavo Dobles. He is best known as the founding member of tech-prog-fusion metal band Aghora. He has produced with Dan Escuariza, and Neil Kernon. Kernon produced Formless cd. Dan did the self-titled debut cd. Santiago Dobles was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He started playing guitar at age 11. As a teenager, he studied under Jae Valentine and Robin Stone. At age 18 he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, majoring in composition, film scoring and guitar. While at Berklee, he studied fusion guitar under the guidance of Jon Finn, Mark White, Mashi Hasu, & Bruce Bartlett. Outside of Berklee, he studied guitar with Paul Masvidal (of Death and Cynic fame), Paul Aldanee and through correspondence with Derek Taylor (Shrapnel recording artist) and Derryl Gabel. He also studied sound engineering at Miami Dade Community College. Santiago practices yoga, Qigong and Pencak Silat (teaching the latter two). His father Gustavo Dobles musician director and composer his Mother Solange Rivero TV Prorducer and Actors, TV directors TV producer and writes agent ( Aisha Enterprises, Inc) both Venezuelan

Santiago also released an instructional guitar "Chops from Hell" DVD entitled "Shut up and Play".