Jaime Altozano (
Madrid, 1993) is a Spanish musician, music producer and
YouTuber known for promoting the musical arts online.
Biography
Jaime Altozano was born in 1993[2] in the
Ciudad Lineal district of Madrid.[3] He studied piano at the Arturo Soria Professional Conservatory of Music in Madrid, completed two years at the
Complutense University of Madrid with a double-major in Mathematics and Physics,[4] and studied music production at
Escuela Creativa de Madrid.[5][6] He started his YouTube channel in May 2017 to provide free, digestable music education videos.[7] The increasing popularity of his videos on musical themes, such as his analysis of soundtracks[8] including The Lord of the Rings trilogy and informative videos about classical music using songs from
Pokémon,
Dragon Ball,[9]The Beatles and
La Oreja de Van Gogh,[10] helped him reach 187,000 subscribers by the end of the year.[11] He doubled that figure five months later.[12]
He collaborated on the Radio Clásica program Música y significado, presented by Luis Ángel de Benito, on which he analyzed the soundtracks of The Lord of the Rings by
Howard Shore in 2017[13][14] and Star Wars by
John Williams in 2018.[15] He has also participated in musical segments on various radio programs including Hoy por Hoy on
Cadena SER and He venido aquí a hablar de lo mío on
Radio Nacional de España (RNE).[16]
In October 2017, Spanish music lecturer
Ramon Gener Sala plagiarized portions of Altozano's analysis in two YouTube videos (De Pokémon a Bach. Una historia de VOCES and Los Miserables: la Mejor Fuga de BACH) during a radio segment entitled Un gesto lo puede cambiar todo (A gesture can change everything).[17] Gener later blamed a collaborator for the plagiarism and said he was not familiar with the work of Altozano.[18]
On December 29, 2017, Altozano live-tweeted a streaming broadcast of La bohème by
Giacomo Puccini from
Teatro Real in Madrid in an attempt to get more than 100,000 people to watch the stream.[19] In November 2018, he published a video on Rosalía's El mal querer that the singer herself reacted to on Instagram.[20][21][22] In 2019 he appeared on the TVE program, "La mejor canción jamas cantada" (The best song ever sung).[23] In February 2019 he made a collaboration video with the Colombian YouTuber Alvinsch, in which both competed to decide who was the best musician,[24] and made another with the YouTuber QuantumFracture in which they collaborated with the
Polytechnic University of Madrid to scientifically answer why "
Happy Birthday to You" is not playable on the drum.[25] In February 2020 he returned to Spanish television to speak to the contestants of Operación Triunfo 2020 about harmony and composition.[26]
Personal life
Altozano is the cousin of video game YouTuber DayoScript.[27]