Gonzalo Rodríguez Díaz was born in Sevilla, Spain. He started playing the guitar at age 14. Some years later, encouraged by the Belgian pianist Raphaël Debacker, he decided to study jazz guitar at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. He has studied with Peter Hertmans, John Ruocco, Fabien Degryse and others. Besides jazz guitar he studied classical guitar and afro-cuban music and got his Masters degree in 2010.

Gonzalo’s main project is performing with his own band, the Zola Quartet, for which he writes compositions. Besides Zola Quartet and playing with Sara So Far, he also plays with RCA Latin Jazz.

Gonzalo teaches electric guitar at the music academies of Zottegem and Oostende.

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