Víctor Pablo (García-Gaetán) is a Puerto Rican born and raised  musician, composer, percussionist, drummer, producer, and educator  based in Brooklyn, NY. With a wide gamma of sounds and languages  from folklore to contemporary at his disposal, VP’s been blessed to  have music take him wondrous places with stellar artists such as Arturo  O’Farrill, Miguel Zenón, Angélica Negrón, Conrad Tao, Imani Winds, St.  Luke’s Orchestra, Pleneros de la 21, Broadway (currently percussionist  for Alicia Keys’s Hell’s Kitchen), Fernando Garcia, Kali Rodriguez-Peña,  Adam O’Farrill, Xito Lovell, Nestor Torres and many more. He can be  heard on film soundtracks like In The Heights, VIVO, and seen in series  like Mozart in the Jungle, and more. 

He also produces and composes music for theater, short films, chamber  ensembles, strings, pop, salsa, and jazz. In 2018 he co-founded the  NYC-based timba band People of Earth (PoE), for which he composes  and plays drums. In 2022 (PoE) premiered Dafnis Prieto’s Tentación:  Concerto for TImba Band and String Orchestra as soloists with the  Louisville Orchestra under the direction of Teddy Abrams. They also  performed it with the LA Philharmonic, the Britt Festival Orchestra, and  the New World Symphony that same year. In 2024, VP organized the  collective Plena del Puente - an unplugged Puerto Rican plena quartet  -, and founded the Afro-Puerto Rican fusion band El Vapor de Brooklyn. 

Victor Pablo earned his Bachelor and Master Degrees in Orchestral  Percussion from Temple University, and is an alumnus of the Escuela  Libre de Música de San Juan. VP is a proud endorser for Innovative  Percussion, Meinl Cymbals, and Meinl Percussion. Some of his  compositions can be purchased through Bachovich Music Publications.