Hector Almaguer

Hector Almaguer is a musician, writer, producer and entertainment industry executive whose work has won a Clio Award and has been Grammy nominated.

Almaguer received an undergraduate degree in Studio Music and Jazz from the University of Miami. He spent about twelve years as a record producer with his production company Mor 2 D'Pop Productions, a music publisher through Rhythm Time Publishing, BonVox Music and NCR Publishing and an entrepreneur through his record label Next Century Records distributed by BMG with his long-time music collaborator Enrique "Kiki" Garcia (best known as one of the original members of Miami Sound Machine and writer of hits like "Conga", "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You", "123" and "Dr. Beat")

Almaguer worked with some of Latin pop's biggest names including Julio Iglesias, Chayanne, Azúcar Moreno and José Luis Rodríguez "El Puma" and lived in Dubai (UAE) and London, England and Miami where he worked as a DJ in some of those cities most important clubs at the time.

Hector Almaguer tells the story of how in the middle of a very successful music career, he felt his skills on the business side were lacking and it was then he decided to attend law school. He explained "I wanted to be the best music business executive possible, and at that point of my career, I was dealing more and more with the major labels, other music publishers, licensing our music worldwide, dealing with artist managers and it was getting pretty thick. I knew how to make music, but the contracts left me feeling like I wasn’t in the game like I needed to be." So, while running these very successful music businesses, Hector Almaguer attended law school at the University of Miami and emphasized his studies there in intellectual property.

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