#━━ ❛❛ // DANTE DOMINGUEZ HERRERA ! ¦ something is happening to me a change that i can’t see . 「 personal sound ! 」

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open ! where: casaplan !

a couple times a month he will come to casaplan with things that he's been working on. most things are experimental, and in the words of their brother samuel, 'it just sounds like a lot of noise', dante doesn't get offended by it - experimental music has a certain kind of niche that often intersects with art, and for the most part, people don't bother him, which is why they still come. by the time that their set finishes he's packing up his equipment and walking around the workshop to make sure they didn't leave anything else behind. there's a crowd that seems to rush through, dante finds himself pinned against one of the walls to let everyone through and by the time that he thinks the coast is clear he finds himself accidentally running into someone. "fuck, that's my fault." he grabs his things, setting his bulky equipment aside and helps the other up.

[belamcandas]

dante guerrero dominguez herrera presents : the grapejuice blues

1. grapejuice

2. change

3. chateau ( feel alright )

4. 715 creeks

5. the gold

6. roddy

7. ur so pretty

8. cherry

9. little freak

10. ____45____

11. half life

12. thank you for the music ( abba cover )

[belamcandas]

is that DANNY RAMIREZ ? oh, no, that’s DANTE GUERRERO DOMINIGUEZ-HERRERA, a THIRTY-ONE year old LYRICIST / COMPOSER  who uses HE/THEY pronouns. they currently live in VALPARAISO, and the character they identify with most is STEVE HARRINGTON FROM STRANGER THINGS. hopefully they find their own little paradise here in el país de los poetas! 

name — dante guerrero dominguez-herrera  nickname(s) — none name meaning — dante: steadfast, enduring. guerrero: war. dominguez: son of domingo. herrera: iron smith age — thirty-one date of birth — august 14th star signs — leo sun, aries moon, scorpio rising place of birth — mexico city, mexico sexual orientation — homosexual religion — atheist spoken language(s) — spanish, english occupation — lyricist / composer / musician  residence — valparaiso family — luna dominguez-herrera ( half-sibling ), esme dominguez-herrera ( half-sister ), samuel guerrero ( half-brother ) career claims: ghostname / pen name luan guerreros ( more on this later ), kyle dixon & michael stein (composer), daniel pemberton ( composer ), the newton brothers ( composer ), max richter ( composer ), keegan dewitt ( composer ), djo’s twenty-twenty and decide  ( musician ), as for lyricists i’ll add to this eventually but also ( more on this later ), ursula ( composing / musician ), bon iver ( musician )

tw: general family dysfunction, alluding to cheating

when people would ask him what motivated him to become the person that he was today, it’s always the standard answer of, my father of course, but in his head he would say, it was actually my mother’s backlogged dreams. no one knows that this is his answer, he tries very hard nowadays to keep his mother’s name out of his mouth. 

it used to change over the years how they approached questions about fame, how in many ways they would never be their father or their sibling luna, and how that drove them from being off the big stage and instead just stick to being… behind it. all of that to say dante would never promise to be quiet, during their early twenties they had spent most of their time running through people and things and their mother told them that one day they'd crash and burn and... then they did. 

but that’s getting ahead of the story. the story really starts on a hot night in august, dante is born out of an already flighty relationship. his mother was on her way to being someone, she wasn’t famous by any means but famous enough to have a small following and by the time that dante was actually here most of those dreams came crashing down. they struggled, partly because his mother wanted his father in his life but struggled because she refused to receive help from his father. it would be a back and forth game until his father, his wife, and sibling would move to new york city and dante would stay with his mother and watch her go through her own set of relationships that would never work out. 

he still of course went to new york to visit for a couple of months at a time, he was never going to be the actor of the family, but he did often listen into conversations his father and luna would have when it came to music, by the time he would get back to his mother’s he’d be half into a project, writing songs, and making experimental sounds. 

with the success of his father’s family it began to take a toll on his back at home. people would say things about him and his mother, rumours that would fly off the handle of the actress that could have been had she not had a tumultuous relationship with his father. his little brother is born and dante tries to keep his head down. 

while his family is complicated he can’t help but feel love for them whenever he was able to visit, though it always felt like he was on the outside looking in. he could relate to his father on music but it was never the same genre. the bond that he should have with his dad was strained but that’s just because he remembers everything that’s happened to his mom. 

skip a few years, glossing over all the public scandals that dante gets himself into, a public outing with the wrong guy, and an incident with his brother where he was meant to protect him and just couldn’t get to him in time, his mother is done with dante. his brother may have forgiven him but his mother hasn’t. in fact, it’s been so long since they last talked it’s often samuel going between both of them when they’re around for the rare family function. 

dante disappears for about a year and comes back under a different pen name luan guerrero, luan in portuguese means ‘moon’ in tribute to his sibling who was able to accomplish so much, but in chinese it also means 'bird' or 'bell'. they always liked a double meaning. dante isn’t known by their mother’s maiden name, it only seemed appropriate that despite everything they’ve been through, there’s some part of her in everything that they do. their album ‘decide’ comes out and is a hit. and after that their other projects that they worked equally as hard on become popular too after years of having just a small few appreciating them. 

before changing pen names they worked on a lot of hit singles as lyricists, and while it was fulfilling there’s something about being able to have your own voice singing your own songs. they’re still passionate about composing, there’s so many good spanish experimental music and they’re just dying to put their foot in the door with it too. 

they’ve moved to valparaiso not that long ago knowing that both of their siblings are here. dante is looking for a fresh start and make more music and shed some of their old ways, but dante is also a leo so we’ll see how that goes !! 

headcanons: 

dante is also very interested in ghost hunting, urban myths, and folklore !!! i wonder if you could tell who their siblings are !!! anyway he’s very supportive of both of his siblings work and wished that he was smart enough to go to university but he’s stupid as a bag of rocks ( ok not literally but im allowed to be mean to him ) 

HE WASN'T A SOUNDCLOUD RAPPER but he did release some of his early stuff on soundcloud and it did get popular on there THANK YEW

owns a mexican black king snake and a tarantula ( like i said, siblings for a reason ) but they also own a tiny little black cat named monday ( don’t ask )

wants to be as cool as esme but is a total loser 

still speaks to samuel, desperately wants their brother to come and live with them but their mom won’t let him. 

speaking of samuel the events of what happened to him will remain a mystery simply bc with celebrity knows who actually knows the truth besides those that it happened to !! 

also it's literally not a secret that his pen name can be linked to his actual name, people often comment whenever he posts on his band’s instagram asking if this is dante or management posting ( it's almost always dante ) so aosdknfas he just wanted to have a separate name for ‘important things’ like that but when it comes to composing for shows and movies he always uses his full name. 

actually a decent photographer as well, but they decided to use their energy on music 

he’s an idiot with people’s feelings sometimes but means well idk man !! growing up in the spotlight can be a lot especially with rumours circulating around their family 

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headcanon 001.

the night that dante and his mom stopped talking had been a busy one, his manager was swearing up and down the house, people calling to see if dante could give a statement. his social media blowing up in his face, people defending them or hoping they'd fall off the face of the planet. in the chaos of it all there was a moment of silence when dante had found samuel in his room building legos, his hands shaking slightly. there were too many people in the house, more than his little brother was comfortable with. dante is a lot of things, but he's loyal to those that he deems worthy, and he'd always put his siblings first. he remembers sitting down across from him, reaching out to grab one of the pieces of the set they've been on and off building for a month now. dante had been so busy being everywhere else that he forgot to be here. "i think i'm going to have to live with my dad and sisters for a bit. until i settle on a place." dante says quietly, he looks at his brother who furrows his brow. his mouth twitches at the side. he was just a kid then, still a kid now in dante's eyes, but he's used to seeing this ugly side to his brother and dante hates that. "i don't want you to go," samuel had said back. "i know," dante never cried but he felt like it. the last time he cried had been when he was a kid. he learned from a young age on how to compartmentalize your emotions in boxes, especially when it came to the press. "mom and i aren't very good for each other." he ran his fingers through his brother's hair like their mum used to do when they were much smaller. "we love each other, but i don't think we can.. i don't think we can coexist in each other's lives like this anymore." he promised that he was still going to see his brother. he still hasn't broken that one yet.

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