Born in the 1980s in Mexico and brought to California, Rudy de Anda’s music is a love letter to the long historical lineage of rock ‘n’ roll and soul music, interpreted through his multicultural lens. “I write my own history; I don’t want to be defined by any one scene,” De Anda proclaims about his personal journey, and his ability to adapt and flit between cities and cultures is part of the reason L.A. Record has called his sound “deliberately difficult to categorize, familiar but novel at the same time.” De Anda’s origin story has more locations than most and the staging is a perilous task: his childhood in Compton, his move to Long Beach, then a few months in Mexico, then back to the States. As an adult, he had a solo trip to Chile to see El Guincho’s show, a trip that meant so much to him that he realized the profound impact Latin music has on his adult life. Amidst incessant moves, one constant in De Anda’s history was the omnipresent soundtrack in his Hispanic home: from rock and bossa nova to crooners, ballads, and even traditional Mexican music. These sounds of his roots and the angst of the punk bands he embraced as a teenager would soon intertwine harmoniously.