This Father’s Day at Casia, we sat down with Joel, artistic director, musician, show producer, and founder of Colegas Música. A father of three and deeply passionate about music as a tool for transformation, Joel shared how his artistic vision shapes both his professional projects and the way he raises his children.
To inspire more connected family journeys, we bring you 10 ways to encourage creativity and music in your children, hand in hand with Joel.
Tips for Families: Music Without Pressure
- Start with yourself: The best advice I can give to a parent who wants to introduce music without pressure is to begin with yourself. Make music part of your everyday life.
- Reflect on your own musical story: As parents, it’s important to ask ourselves what our relationship with music is. Sometimes, without realizing it, we project wounds from our own past.
- Build a healthy connection with music: If you can develop a healthy, free, joyful relationship with music, then you’ll be able to introduce that world to your children without pressure. With joy. With love. And they’ll simply join in.
- Keep an open attitude: Fostering creativity at home has everything to do with the environment you create.
- Allow mistakes: Don’t correct constantly. Don’t demand instant results.
- Leave room for freedom: Creativity needs air. It needs freedom.
- Don’t interrupt creative moments: If you see your child singing, drawing, dancing, or inventing something strange… don’t interrupt. Don’t explain. Don’t point out what’s wrong. Support them with a smile.
- Inspire through concrete actions: Play music at home, invent songs, watch inspiring movies, tell stories, play games that encourage imagination, building, and exploration.
- Let everything come from enjoyment: If it becomes an obligation, it loses its magic.
- Show them you can be creative too: When children see their parents creating, feeling, and daring too… creativity becomes a shared language. And that’s something they’ll never forget.
Colegas: Production Company, Academy, and Life Philosophy
Colegas is not just a production company or an academy — it’s a comprehensive platform where experienced artists and newcomers come together around a shared vision. At Colegas, we believe that everyone has an artist inside, and we work from a philosophy that seeks to awaken that natural ability to create, play, and feel through music — the way it was always meant to be.
Music is not the end goal, but the means to connect with ourselves, with others, and with the world we live in.
A Different Way to Live Music: The Colegas Method
The Colegas Method is applied both in education and in our artistic productions. It’s designed for artists at every stage — from those with years of experience to those just starting out.
This method invites us to make music always from a place of joy, emotion, and creative freedom. Even in highly demanding professional settings, we believe art is born from real connection and genuine enjoyment.
To create, we must allow ourselves to play, explore, and go through the experience like a child: with curiosity, openness, and joy. That’s our way of making art. That’s our vision.
The Four Core Values of the Colegas Method
At Colegas, music is learned through experience, and these are the values that guide that path:
- Joy as a starting point: The values that guide the Colegas method begin with something very simple and essential: joy. When the experience is enjoyable and invites you to play, explore, and move out of curiosity... that’s where everything begins.
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Confidence to grow: If we give you accessible tools that help you resolve what seems complex in a simple way, you gain confidence. And with confidence, everything feels lighter.
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Independence through music literacy: Music literacy is key for us. It’s a tool that gives you independence and lets you move forward on your own.
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Knowledge that grows naturally: Nothing forced. Nothing heavy. Learning should feel natural.
Joy, confidence, independence, and a solid, organic foundation. All in service of helping you make real music — from you, for you.
What Role Does Music Play in Your Everyday Life as a Father?
Music is my way of seeing life. It’s also how I communicate with my children. When something becomes part of your daily life, when it’s shared and it connects you, it becomes a beautiful form of communication.
They see me in it all the time — conducting a choir or orchestra, singing, playing an instrument, producing concerts or shows.
Music is not just what I do… it’s who we are.
Being a Father, Guiding with Intention
Being a father gave me tools that help me a lot in guiding other artists.
At the same time, working as a producer and shaping the academy helped me become a better father. Everything feeds into itself.
When you prioritize joy, confidence, and independence — and leave behind the rigid mold that often dominates music education — you see kids show up excited, eager to learn, motivated from within. Teaching happens on its own, because they genuinely want to learn.
Staying true to that mindset, we chose homeschooling. When we saw that our kids weren’t receiving what we considered essential — freedom, curiosity, respect for their pace — we decided to do things differently.
When someone grows with freedom, enthusiasm, and purpose, they can achieve anything they set out to do.
Process, Time, and Authenticity
At Casia, we believe that what’s made with time, care, and dedication connects differently.
How do you handle artist development at Colegas?
Each artist has their own rhythm. Some move fast, some need more time to process and connect. And that’s okay. There’s no single right way or pace to learn.
At Colegas, we believe that when something is forced, it breaks. That’s why we prioritize genuine processes.
We allow room for rehearsal, for error, for exploration. We don’t push. We don’t rush. We accompany. It takes time — but it leads to deeper, more real, more lasting results.
The Legacy of Music
Are there musical moments with your kids you’ll never forget?
So many, because we’re surrounded by music. I especially remember my oldest son, at a year and a half, surprising me by playing We Will Rock You perfectly — from that moment, percussion became his safe space, his way of expressing himself, even before he could speak.
Another moment was after a class at the Academy with my son, who is now six. That day he learned his first ukulele notes, and the pride on his face was priceless. It moved me deeply because he struggles to express himself and feel secure, but in the right environment, with the right support, he was able to feel different.
What legacy do you want to leave your children?
I’d like them to understand they don’t need to be perfect. They don’t need to be the best. Mistakes, off notes, failures — they’re all okay.
What matters is being themselves. Daring to be authentic. Following their inner voice. Doing what they love with passion and purpose.
I want to leave them with the certainty that they can use their art to transform their world — and the world of others. That they can trust their voice. That they can create beauty from who they are, without trying to fit in.
In a world that often rewards the superficial, the immediate, the shiny, I want them to know how to look inward. And from there… make their music. Their life.
A Tribute to the Art of Guiding
This conversation with Joel reminds us that art, creating, and parenting all share something essential: they take time, respect, and presence.
At Casia, we deeply believe in those slower processes. In relationships built with intention. In passions that bloom when nurtured with love.
We celebrate those who choose to guide with presence, authenticity, and love. Those who make the everyday meaningful.
Happy Father’s Day!
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