American music owes a lot to immigrant musicians: Joni Mitchell (Big Yellow Taxi), Gloria Estefan (Hold Me Thrill Me) , Irving Berlin, They didn’t have capital, credit, or connections, but that didn’t stop them. One of my favorites is Irving Berlin, who escaped Siberia, to become what many call, America’s greatest songwriter. He wrote 1600 songs, including the standbys for Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and Fred Astaire. In this episode 5, my guest, Pablo Osinaga, brings people from around the world collaborate to play whatever song they choose. I watched and heard the song Bring me to Life, played my musicians from Finland, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, and Kalamazoo, Michigan. He tells how he was recruited by Microsoft while a college student in Argentina to move to Seattle to compile computer languages – that kind of deep work, where it didn’t matter if he spoke English. Now in New York, Pablo co-founded BANDHUB.US last year, because he misses playing with his friends in his hometown of Buenos Aires. If you sing and play music, then you’re really the ones that Pablo built the platform for. My favorite collaborations are Red Hot Chili Peppers Power of Equality and Evanescence’s Bring me to Life. Learn: Why Bandhub’s community is on track to grow from 20,000 to 1,000,000... The Argentina advantage - How to argue intelligently - to lead create higher levels of performance and avoid being satisfied with a local maxima. Why all immigrants are entrepreneurs, by definition. TRANSCRIPT Kent: Today we are looking at the field of music. There have been a lot of immigrant musicians. My favorite is Irving Berlin who escaped Siberia as a boy to become what many call, even today, America’s greatest songwriter. He wrote 1600 American songs including the standbys for Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and Fred Astaire. That is why I was excited to interview Pablo Osinaga from Buenos Aires, Argentina, who is so passionate about music, that he is bringing together thousands of musicians to collaborate on their favorite songs at his website, bandhub.us. I linked some awesome collaborations in the shownotes like, Red Hot Chili Peppers Power of Equality, where you can listen or join in yourself. So lets go to my interview which took place on November 12th in Pablo’s New York office. In this podcast you are going to learn from Pablo, why bandhub’s community is on track to grow from 20,000 recreational musicians today to 1,000,000 by early next year. You will learn the Argentine advantage, how to argue intelligently, and why all immigrants are entrepreneurs by definition.   Kent(1:50): So I am here with Pablo Osinaga in his incredible loft in downtown Manhattan and Pablo is the founder of BandHub. Can you give us an overview of BandHub? Pablo: BandHub is a place where anyone who plays an instruments or sings recreationally can join the community, connect with like minded musicians, and make music together online. Essentially making their hobby more social.   Kent(2:23): So you are saying you can have one person in California who is playing the guitar and someone who is in New York who is on the drums? Pablo: Thats right. What has happened with music making is, a hundred years or so, people would gather to play music. You would play the church organ or whatever. People didn’t have instruments in their home. Modern life so to speak brought the cost of instruments down so almost one in ten people in the US actively play an instrument or sing recreationally. These are not aspiring musicians, these are just recreational musicians. The problem is access to instrument and ability to play has been democratized but, your ability to socialize has not. It is really hard to make music with other people. It is really hard to be social around music when you are playing by yourself at home, which is what most people do. That is the problem we are focusing on. We are bringing back the social element of the hob...