I must have been 2 years old when I first heard Abba's "Chiquitita" on my parents black and white TV back in the Spanish Pyrenees in a small town near France called Berga. From that moment I knew that something magic was inside those sounds, something I couldn't comprehend, I didn't even know back then those sounds were called music, but I knew for certain that this was the thing I would devote my life to for the rest of my days.

I started music school as soon as they accepted me, I was 4 years old. I started playing classical guitar, clarinet and piano. I also studied composition and all the things you learn in music school. I played in the music school's orchestra for years. I didn't like normal school, I hated it actually, and music school became my refuge.

Classical music was not my only interest and by the age of 12 I had started my first band in which I would initially play the keyboards. We'd practice every week, we were quite good, we achieved some success, we got signed and released and album that the Spanish press labelled as one of the best albums of the year. Nothing much else happened, but I cherish every second I spent in that band, we were like a family and we grew up together.

Soon I experienced the "I'm sure the party is happening somewhere else" syndrome and decided to relocate to London. Here I reinvented myself as a musician with a project called Momo in which I merged classical music, opera, pop, electronica, poetry and visual arts. Somehow I wanted to combine all the things I love in a single project. The live shows became extraordinary, chaotic and mammoth contemporary operas in which I collaborated with a long list of extraordinary musicians, poets and visual artists. My music is now sold at around 15 countries around the world through my own record label Instant Attraction Records.

London makes you grow at an accelerated pace in all the facets of human experience. At times I have problems dealing with my dark side, music helps me return to the light. I write much more than I manage to finish. I released 5 momo albums last year alone, and my computer and dictaphone are still full of hundreds of ideas that need to be polished and finished. Music has become a necessity for me, without it I would no longer be here.

At the moment I'm experimenting with my voice, I'm trying to discover my own voice, getting inspiration from people such as Lou Reed, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Jim Croce, Cat Stevens, James Taylor... going back to the origins of songs and music. This is the first time I use my own voice instead of collaborating with gifted and wonderful singers as I've always done with Momo. To find the power of human voice and words: when you say the right thing in the right key, something magical happens!

You can find out more about Toni and his Momo project on his website.