Jason Rivera is a Puerto Rican, Los Angeles-based composer and multi-instrumentalist. Born to a musical family, his dad was an upright bassist in a Salsa band and his grandfather a guitarist. His dad’s basses and upright piano were fixtures in Jason’s house growing up. Occasionally, his dad would dust off a bass and jam with him as he learned to play drums and guitar. In his dad’s record and 8-track tape collection, he discovered everything from John Williams to the Salsa classics of Fania All-Stars. Because of these influences, he started playing and writing music at four years old and has not stopped since.

Recently Jason’s focus has been on writing music for media. In 2020, he was invited to score music for Liberty Mutual’s employee diversity, equity, and inclusion program. In 2021, a project he scored, the e-Learning course Disarming Microaggressions, won 3 Telly Awards.

His recent solo release, “Beam”, marks a new aesthetic. A direction in which he has given himself the freedom to follow his creative impulses and inspirations to wherever they may lead him.

Prior to working as a solo artist, Jason enjoyed his earlier musical successes as a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist with the band Some Go Haunting – culminating when he, along with bandmate Aria Pullman Ostrander, won the beIN the Beat competition, and was flown to Miami to record at the legendary Hit Factory Criteria studio. This live recording was broadcast worldwide during the Real Madrid vs. FC Barcelona El Clásico pre-game show in 2014. During this time Some Go Haunting also collaborated with Wu-Tang Clan affiliates, the hip-hop duo Black Knights, on the song “Kids of Summer’.

Jason’s music has received radio play on KCSN (88.5 FM) and The Independent FM. His achievements have been profiled in BuzzbandsLA, The Deli Magazine, Arena Music, Voyage LA Magazine, WeHeartMusic, Care2Rock, and Skillshare.

Jason says, “Music is an agent of alchemy. Every single note holds the potential to transform the differences that separate us into commonalities that unite us. Through my journey in music I have learned this lesson firsthand. And I look for every opportunity to conjure that alchemy.”