Nicolas Padron
- Composer
- Music Department
- Actor
Writer, composer and musician Nicolas 'Nick' Padron lives in Madrid,
Spain and in Miami, Florida. He grew up in New York City and studied at
New York University in 1987/88. As a performer and musician he recorded
with several musical groups, among them Mandrill on Polydor Records;
Come to Papa on Infinity Recs. He co-wrote a rock opera for the late
Bill Graham, Diablero based on Carlos Castaneda's
Don Juan books. In the mid 1980s, he became a solo recording artist for
RCA Records, where he produced his own recordings as well as that of
other artists in the U.S. and abroad. As a composer and lyricist, he
has published over one hundred compositions, including jingles and
music for all kinds of television productions. Thirty of his songs have
been recorded and released in the United States and in international
markets. Between 1988 and 2002, he wrote comedy sketches, interviews
(with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Jackson Browne, James Taylor,
Quentin Tarrentino and others) and performed in several top TV shows in
Spain (with Javier Barden, Pedro Almodovar...) including the highly
acclaimed, award winning series ...Esta Noche Cruzamos El Mississippi
(1995-1998) In the 90s, he took up writing prose in earnest. Since
then, his short stories have appeared in numerous publications and
collections in the United States, Canada, Spain and Japan, among them
The Numbers Vendor, published in over fifteen print and web literary
journals worldwide. His novella, It Tolls For Thee, was rated number
one at Zoetrope All-Story in October 2002, and is currently under
consideration by a Madrid, Spain, film production company. His novel,
The Good Terrorist, was an Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award finalist in
2008.