Aquiestoy is the creative music project of guitarist, producer, and singer-songwriter Carlos Snaider, based in Seattle, USA. The name fuses the Spanish words “aquí” (here) and “estoy” (I am) — which Carlos translated as “ibehere.” Raised by a Nuyorican mother and Ecuadorian father across cities in the US and, briefly, in Quito, Ecuador, music became his primary way of moving through environments, generations, and versions of himself. Rooted in Creative Music, Caribbean poetics, and self-culture, Aquiestoy is where those currents meet without resolving into any single one of them.

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His self-produced debut album Til We Dissolve (2026) resists the pull toward fixed identity in either sound or language. Originally conceived as Multiverso, the album thinks through islands as individual universes — each one complete, each one in relation — offering reflections on depth, transience, closeness and distance. Informed by creative music, salsa, boleros, beatmakers, hip-hop, rock, and singer-songwriters, the album moves through live band arrangements, hardware synth production, and songwriting in English, Spanish, and Spanglish. The sound worlds are there to be felt, even if the meaning is lost in translation. 

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Snaider has led live ensembles in both Seattle and Quito, with different voices and instrumentations that keep the music mutable. He has worked closely with Ay Ombe Theatre, the international performance troupe founded by poet and performance artist Josefina Báez, whose practice of community-building through the autobiography of the self has been a formative influence on his work. He studied at Harvard University with Vijay Iyer, Yosvanny Terry, and George Lewis, and has maintained ties to the New York creative music scene.