Hi Friends!

I am reaching out to all of you today to ask for your help and support in keeping my career in this country moving forward. As many of you know, I am currently on the challenging path of prolonging my presence in the country. This is a lengthy and expensive process that requires a lot from me. I have taken this opportunity as an excuse to do a deep meditation on my career and ambitions, and I am currently ready to put all that I can into making my life here continue to happen.

Nonetheless, I am reaching out to all of you today, friends, because as much as I love to be a self-sufficient force of nature, I am currently finding myself in a place of necessity. This entire process as a financial investment is costing me an approximate amount of 7500 dollars in legal and filing fees and as close as I am to gathering all of the funds, I am also reaching the end of my rope when it comes to what I can generate and what I need to support myself.

And so, friends! I am attempting something that I seldom do, I am asking you for help in raising the remaining funds. Be it by contributing to this Gofundme or by helping me find people who may be able to contribute so that we may continue to make art, bond, collaborate, and change together.

If you made it here and you don’t know who I am, Hi!! I am Santiago Gutierrez a Colombian Composer and vocalist based in NYC. I compose music that focuses on deep explorations of concepts such as shape, vagueness and specificity, and most importantly communication: starting with me and the performer, the performer and the score, the performer and their instrument, the performer and the audience , the audience and with the sounds they witness, the audience and the space, and so forth. Sound is a gift wrapped in the passing of time.

If you’re curious about this you can checkout my music here:

https://m.soundcloud.com/santiago-gutierrez-9