Biography

Since the age of 14, when he began creating music and poetry, he played in several bands in Buenos Aires as a guitarist, composer and singer, and since the year 2000 he has been a regular contributor to the literary and cultural magazine Beatrizos, also occasionally contributing to other print and online media.

In 2001 he moved to Barcelona in search of better artistic opportunities. Since then he has performed in numerous concerts as a soloist, with his bands, and also as a guest and session musician, and has presented exhibitions of drawings, poetry and multimedia on several occasions.

From 2005 to 2007 he worked on recordings for various musicians as part of a cooperative he proposed and organized himself in order to publish new composers; he worked as a composer, arranger, performer, sound engineer and producer. In 2006 he completed a sound engineering course, complementing the practical knowledge gained through experience with theoretical training. During this period he also studied theatrical improvisation with the master Oscar Calvo, and was part of several writers’ groups, frequently performing in poetry readings.

Within this cooperative they released Burning down my soul, the first solo album by singer-songwriter Maurizio Taglieri. On this album, Sebastián Griz arranged and performed all the instruments, in addition to handling the artistic and executive production, recording, mixing and mastering, while the artist contributed all the compositions and lyrics and recorded the vocals (the album was reissued in 2016 with improved sound quality).

In February 2008 he formed Mariposa Lunar, a group in which he served as musical director, performer and composer. In July 2009 they released the album Conjuro, for which he also handled artistic and executive production, in addition to composing all the pieces and performing the guitar parts. With this group they performed in numerous concerts and events throughout Catalonia during its three years of existence.

Also starting in February 2008 he organized the first stable experimental and ethnic jam session in Barcelona, in which he played with musicians from all over the world, performing styles from their countries of origin (free jams of Hindustani, Japanese, Arabic, African, Latin American and European folk music, rock, psychedelia, among other styles).

In September 2009 he presented a multimedia exhibition of his drawings, poetry and music at the civic center Punt Multimedia.

In January 2011 he was hired to compose and perform the music for the Junky Sahara Retreat, a spiritual retreat in the Sahara Desert, where he lived an extremely enriching experience while creating musical atmospheres throughout the week.

Also at the beginning of 2011 he composed and recorded the soundtrack for the play Impronautas for the company Improducción, which was presented at several venues in the city with positive reviews, and he briefly participated as guitarist in the Salvador Ribas Chamber Orchestra, which performs classical repertoire.

In May of that year he was invited to participate in the lecture series European Workshop Acoustic Strings 2011, organized in Austria, as a performer on guitar, charango and bandurria. There he presented a lecture on Creativity and Style, another on Music from Outside Europe, and a third on Creative Use of Analog Delay. He also prepared a dossier in collaboration with Robert Bray on the Relationship between the Visible Spectrum and Musical Notes, and performed in several concerts in the Innsbruck region and surrounding areas, as well as in northern Italy.

In September he performed a series of concerts in Portugal and closed the year playing in the London area. He also gave concerts in venues in Granada and Madrid, which were very well received by the public.

In February 2012 he was a finalist in the original soundtrack competition of the Barcelona Visual Sound, participating with his original work “Ethnodelic Puzzle”, which fuses world music with electronic music. That same year he also participated in the documentary “Barcelona Music Talk”, for which he was interviewed as an artist and producer alongside several figures from the Barcelona music scene.

Around this time he joined the Centro de Argentinos de Catalunya as a regular collaborator, where he would later become artistic director, participating in the production and organization of various events and in the creation of a cultural bridge between Argentina and Spain, through which lectures, concerts and presentations by various artists and public figures in both countries were organized (musicians, film directors, politicians, actors, etc.).

The year 2013 began with a tour of England with the band Nothing Concrete, with whom he also recorded the self-titled EP at Pear Studios. On the EP he performed on dobro, banjo, guitar, ukulele and charango.

In February he presented a Tribute to Luis Alberto Spinetta at the Argentine Consulate in Barcelona, sponsored by the Argentine Embassy in Spain, the Centro de Argentinos de Cataluña and Casa América, where the venue reached double its usual capacity. In this tribute he presented a lecture on the literary work of “El Flaco”, a video about his life, and an acoustic concert.

From November of that year until March 2014 he gave several performances in different provinces of Argentina, and continued recording his songs, one of which featured one of his lifelong idols, Willy Quiroga, bassist of the legendary group Vox Dei.

In March he created, together with Laura Cabral, the Festival de la Diversidad Musical Under (FeDMUn), holding its first edition in the city of Buenos Aires at the Espacio Cultural Nuestros Hijos, run by the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, thanks to an invitation from the Minister of Culture of the Nation, Teresa Parodi. With this festival, in which he participated both as producer and artist, they contributed to the rapid development of the participating artists’ careers and were interviewed by various print media, radio stations and public television.

During this trip he also presented lectures on creativity to art school students, encouraging them to develop their own style and compositional abilities.

In March 2015 the second edition took place, in which he again participated as producer, achieving even more satisfactory results than in the previous edition.

In May of the same year he participated in Barcelona in the artistic event Déballage Barcelona as an artist and stage producer/director. The event took place at the Estación de Francia and, in addition to live music, included an art, vinyl records and antiques market.

At the end of that same year he served as producer and stage director of the multi-art and multicultural festival Soulmade, held at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB). He was responsible for production, artist booking and stage direction, in addition to performing himself with his band.

During 2016 he recorded his first solo album, 160 habitaciones vacías, an album in which, in addition to composing the songs, he sings and plays all the guitars (acoustic, electric, classical, fretless and slide), basses (fretted and fretless), sitar, tanpura, keyboards, programs MIDI bass and percussion, and samples and edits Indian tablas. He also recorded and produced the album. Guest musicians on the album include Gyan Singh (tabla), Pedro Locubiche (percussion), Giuliano Cobelli (drums), RANroger (flute), Marko Jelaka (drums), Daniela Brantschen (cello) and Lucas Balbo (cajón).

Also during this year he participated as a producer in the second edition of Soulmade, this time held at Poble Espanyol, again fulfilling similar roles, this time directing three music stages and participating in part of the planning and production of the event, in addition to performing with his group Hipercandombe.

During that same year he participated as a musician in the Sun and Moon Festival in Brighton (England), receiving a positive reception from the audience and subsequent invitations to perform at other festivals.

In 2018 he released his second solo album, Flores del limbo, an album in which, in addition to composing the songs, he sings and plays guitars (acoustic, electric, classical, 12-string, e-bow and slide), basses (fretted and fretless), sitar, keyboards, minimoog, and programs MIDI drums and percussion (djembes, sangba, dununba, bass drum). He was also responsible for recording and producing the album.

Guest musicians on this album include Willy Quiroga (bass), RANroger (flutes), Daniela Branstchen (cellos), Pedro Locubiche (percussion), Emiliano Billordo (bombo legüero), Mark Monsalvo (acoustic guitar) and Joel Antas (didgeridoo).

Since 2019 he has also been painting surrealist-style works, receiving positive reception from both critics and collectors.

In 2023 he recorded and released, together with Tashi Vasudeva, the album Simbiosis, marking the beginning of a collaborative project with different artists. At the same time he is recording his third solo album, on which he performs most of the instruments himself.

Since 2024 he has been a board member of the poets and artists association Entre Versos, with whom he organizes competitions, presentations and workshops on poetry and other artistic expressions.

In 2026 he published five poetry books containing writings from his beginnings up to 2023.

He is currently part of the group Lupercalia, with whom he has begun performing again on stages in Barcelona.

He also continues his literary work and is writing his first novel in hypertext format, while continuing to create paintings using different techniques.