Jon Griffin

Jon Griffin (guitar, Cuban tres, percussion) is a Los Angeles native who splits his time between Billings, Montana and Havana. His path into Latin music started in 1986 at the Dick Grove School of Music in Studio City, where a single performance by a band featuring Luis Conte and Alex Acuña changed the direction of everything.

Since graduating from Grove, he has traveled extensively through Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America — not as a tourist, but as a student. That has meant late nights with street percussionists in Havana as often as it has meant hiking a mountain path in Colombia for a guitar lesson. He absorbs music the way it was meant to be learned: from the people who carry it.

He works across Latin, jazz, tropical, and Latin pop, and is a published author with several books on Cuban music and ethnomusicology. He owns HJJ Publishing (BMI) and Salsa Blanca (ASCAP).

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Note to Music Supervisors

All originals are one-stop with no samples and use live musicians throughout. Songs with co-writers have collaborator agreements in place.

Bespoke music is available — produced in Cuba, Colombia, or the USA depending on the project. Most tracks include instrumental and TV mixes; many have alternate mixes as well.

Existing syncs in Europe and Cuba. Ready to work to picture, to brief, or on spec.