Arturo Flores was born in Cuernavaca, México, and has made the United States his home for over thirty years. He teaches Spanish middle and high school students at Laguna Blanca School in Santa Barbara, California, and leads student trips to Mexico. Passionate about music, Arturo not only plays several string instruments, he makes his own guitars, ukuleles and jaranas, which are traditional instruments from Veracruz, México.