Meet The Team

Founder & CEO
Ali Hussien
Ali Hussain is an artist, composer, guitarist and producer. He was born in January 1991. Started as graphic designer and guitarist in 2006 and then photographer in 2009. He started writing and publishing his songs in 2012 and started music arranging in 2013. He Worked in fine art, music, theater and filming fields. He founded Cochineal Production in 2020.

VP & Executive Producer
Abdulla Bin Mohammed
Visual content producer. He has been in the media field for eight years and has worked in every stage of production; including pre-production, production, and post-production. He has been involved with social media advertising, TV commercials, TV series, and short movies. He has worked on numerous freelance projects and also for Qatar Media Corporation as a Production Coordinator.

Videographer & Photographer
Amina Al Riyami
Amina Al Riyami a 22 years old skilful Qatari Videographer . Amina is a current student in Qatar university Majoring in Bachelor’s Mass communication. Amina’s images showcase us the beauty within every image she captures. She is passionate, lovable and innovative.

Writer
Dana Al Mansouri
Dana Al Mansori is a Kuwaiti young writer, Legal representative and musical poet. She graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Law. Due to her excellence she has been in a collaboration with many well known artists in the gulf. We are excited to see more of her collaboration in the future bigger projects.

Artist & Music instructor
Antonio Diaz Martinez
A certified artist and teacher. He has a Bachelor of Music (Major in "Music Instruments, Music Teaching, and Scenography) from the "University of the Arts" in Cuba. In addition, he has more than six years of experience playing in 1st level musical groups, performing concerts and tours in America, Asia, and Europe.

Artist & Music instructor
Carolina Calmon
Carolina is an amazing and passionate singer—vocal teacher, born and raised in Brazil. She got her natural talent from her grandmother who inspired her to pursue singing. Has a very wide range of repertoire from old to top 40 songs, singing Latin, Portuguese, Pop, Rock to Jazz. Well experienced and has traveled to many countries doing what she most love—singing. Sharing talent and knowledge to her students is one of her greatest achievements.

Artist & Music instructor
Oidel Cruz
A professional musician from classical, acoustic to electric guitar. He began his studies in September 2004 and has participated in national events in Cuba such as Habana World Music, Salsa Cuban Festival, Film Festivals among others.
Plays other instruments such as Piano, Bass and Percussion.
He also works as an arranger and composer.
He has collaborated in international events such as the Fusion Music Festival in France and in Qatar at the Grand Prix of Motocross.

Dance instructor
Lianet Armentros
Professional dancer of Variety shows.
Was born In Cuba on December 11, 1994.
She began her studies in September 2005 and maintained her Professional training until graduating in 2014.
In 2019, she began her international career as a dance coach in countries like Turkey and Russia.
She has participated in Salsa Festivals along with other popular Cuban teachers for 3 consecutive years in Moscow and is currently the most popular and in-demand dance teacher at our Cubamania dance studio.