According to his mother, Juanjo Montserrat was like this: "He doesn't even want to lose at Parcheesi."

PalmOn May 7, 1992, Antònia Riutort's second child was born by cesarean section: "A happy baby boy, who laughed all the time. But he was quite mischievous and very restless!" recalls his mother, who says that her son has never called her "Mom": "Even now, he calls me 'Mommy'." When he was nine months old, Riutort realized something: "One day, somewhere, the song..." And will always love you by Whitney Houston. The boy made a sad face and his chin started to tremble. He was in shock and very emotional." The boy who was moved by Whitney Houston's voice and music is musician and producer Juanjo Montserrat (from Arenal de Llucmajor), "a perfectionist who doesn't want to lose even at Parcheesi."

Nowadays, he can listen to the song on the radio; he had to change the station because his son's emotional outburst kept happening: "With this, I discovered that the boy was very sensitive," he points out, which combined with the antics he got up to every other day: "He was incapable of sitting still, he would run through the pediatrician's waiting rooms, disappear into supermarkets," and local festivals, and he recalls an anecdote: "One day I was singing in Pollentia, which is full of water channels. If I didn't have anyone to leave the children with, I would take them with me and have them paint while I sang." That day, Juanjo disappeared into the darkness, and his brother, from below, signaled to me to tell me he didn't know where he was. It wasn't good!

Juanjo grew up in a completely musical environment. Antonia was a singer, and everyone in the family played an instrument. The effect of this environment soon became apparent in Juanjo's abilities, who always emphasizes that he is self-taught: "At five years old, Juanjo was playing by himself on a small piano he had." The eyes of the Spanish woman"Without anyone having taught him. I was surprised, but I also noticed that he sang very well and had a good ear," Antònia recalls. At seven years old, Juanjo came home with a slip of paper in his hand: the Arenal de Llucmajor municipal band was being formed, and he wanted to join. He chose to play the clarinet. "The teacher told me, 'Look, ma'am, your children aren't normal,' and that bothered me, because I thought, 'What does this mean now? They're just like everyone else!' But what he was really saying was that it seemed like they'd been studying music theory their whole lives and were too advanced."

Although it seemed natural that Juanjo would end up dedicating himself to music, at 13 he went to his mother and said, "I want to be a tennis player." During a match, he told her, "I think you should referee this match." His desire to be a tennis player didn't last much longer. Music, however, never disappeared. Talent Glass and collaborations with artists like Sebastián Yatra, which have earned him two Latin Grammy Awards.

Along the way, he was a good student, an avid comic book reader, filled oil jugs in Son Catiu at eighteen, and tried to study Art History at university. Until one day he said it plainly: "Mom, I want to dedicate myself to music." Antonia wasn't surprised: "I already knew. It's as if the universe had planned it. I'm very proud of him because, besides being noble, humble, and a fighter, he's everything I would have liked to be."