Christian von Ehrenfels
Christian von Ehrenfels was born on 20 June 1859 in Rodaun near Vienna and grew up at his father's castle Brunn am Walde in Lower Austria. He joined secondary school in Krems and first studied at the Hochschule für Bodenkultur in Vienna and then changed to the Universität Wien.
Christian Nieves
Christian Javier Nieves Maldonado was born in the Hospital del Maestro in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on February 16, 1981. He is the eldest of 3 children, two women, Monika and Natalia, and Christian, as a single male, Modesto Nieves and Beatriz Maldonado, procreated in the neighborhood Cedar bottom in Naranjito. His mother, housewife, attentive care home taught school responsibilities. His father, known as the "Naranjito Lefty" a musician and cuatrista tireless, taught him to love typical and popular music, and its culture with passion. It was in your home very young at the age of 3 years started to interpret popular songs with a four that between his grandfather and his father gave him. He learnt to play the themes like "Green light", "Mi viejo San Juan" as well as six, aguinaldos, dances and other styles that exist in the Puerto Rican music.
In his childhood, Christian participated in the powers of four in all Puerto Rico in which obtained first place, was also recognized by the Institute of Puerto Rican culture as the most talented young of our national instrument, the Puerto Rican Cuatro. With only 10 years of age as part of their development of labor reaffirms from typical Puerto Rican music. With which led him to represent his country all over the world in countries like: United States, as well as to the Puerto Rican communities in New York, Chicago, Connecticut, Boston and Los Angeles, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Switzerland, Belgium, England, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, France, Japan, Cuba; among many others.