Juan Carlos Paz y Puente

As a musician he began playing the drums and making transcriptions and charts, then making arrangements for well known Traditional Mexican and Spanish recording artists, such as Armando Manzanero, and then became musical director, drummer and arranger for Pandora, Camilo Sesto, Hernaldo Zúñiga and Rocío Dúrcal all of with which he toured extensively. Paz y Puente was one of the musical directors for the Plácido Domingo and Friends concert with Frank Sinatra, Julie Andrews and John Denver. Eventually commissioned as Production Manager for Luis Miguel, Paz y Puente then left to take the charge of the A&R department at Warner Music Mexico and was given the title of Vice President of A&R. He was named Senior Vice President of Marketing & A&R for Warner Music Mexico. In 1993, with Mario Santos, he founded Centro Universitario de Música Fermatta (from which he's no longer affiliated since 2008). Under his direction, Fermatta was the first private institution in Contemporary Music Education that received official recognition from the Mexican Government.^{[citation needed]}

He co-founded Renascita S.A de C.V in Monterrey, Mexico (May 2021); the company's activities include live event production, artistic direction, recording and music production, as well as composition for film and television series. Renascita also has its own record label, OneTake. As producer, composer, arranger and musical director Paz y Puente has worked such artists as Carlos Santana, Celia Cruz, David Foster, Vinnie Colaiuta, Lucero, Jon Anderson, Peter Erskine, John Carpenter, Gregg Bissonette, Randy Waldman, Maná, Café Tacuba, Clare Fischer, José José, Guadalupe Pineda, Napoleón, Alejandro Fernández, Emmanuel, Ana Bárbara, Edith Márquez, Ana Gabriel, Bill Schnee, Lee Sklar, Tim Pierce, Narada Michael Walden, Francisco Céspedes, La Ley, Humberto Gatica, Ricardo Montaner, Bebu Silvetti, Luis Fernando Ochoa, Daniela Luján, Fernando Osorio, Eduardo Diazmuñoz, Mark Kamins, Piero Cassano, Thalía, Oscar Vallejo, Michael Thompson, Bruce Gowdy, and Mijares, among others.^{[citation needed]}

Paz y Puente is a recipient of the "El Sol de Oro" from the Mexican National Journalist Council and has been a member of the Blue Ribbon Committee for Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences that overseas the Latin Grammy Awards. As a producer for Francisco Céspedes' album Vida Loca, he won 3 Premios Amigo in Spain for: "Best Latin Album", "Best Male Latin Artist" and "Best New Latin Artist" by selling over a 1,000,000 albums worldwide. He frequently lectures at universities in the United States and Mexico. Professor Paz y Puente teaches periodically at UCLA and has taught both Song Composition and Latin Music Business there. He founded M&L Music, a record label and publishing company with Roberto Figueroa, Mario Santos, and Amir Agai.