Live Music Performer / Hotel Musician

Responsibilities

• Perform live music in hotel lobby lounge, bar, or restaurant — multiple daily sets
• Maintain sophisticated repertoire appropriate to CDMX's cosmopolitan hotel market — jazz, bossa nova, acoustic, Latin standards, international pop
• Adapt style to venue context and guest demographics — business dinner ambient through evening cocktail energy
• Perform at corporate events, private dinners, and special occasions booked through the hotel
• Engage with guests between sets — CDMX hotel audiences include executives, diplomats, and cultural visitors who appreciate personal interaction

Requirements

• Professional musician with sophisticated, versatile repertoire
• Experience performing in upscale urban venues
• Polished presentation appropriate to Polanco or boutique hotel environment
• English — essential for interaction with international hotel guests
• Genuine musicianship — CDMX audiences are sophisticated

Benefits

• IMSS, Aguinaldo, vacation + premium
• Staff meals, uniform
• Transport subsidy

Work environment

Hotel music venues in Mexico City. Polanco lobby bars and Roma boutique hotel terraces provide some of the most sophisticated live music performance environments in Latin America.

About the role

The sophisticated sound of Mexico City hospitality. A CDMX hotel guest from Paris or New York, sitting at the bar in a Polanco hotel after a day of meetings, hears a pianist begin a bossa nova arrangement they recognize. They order another drink. They stay an hour longer than planned. They mention the music in their review. The musician who created that moment used their craft to change someone's evening — without anyone noticing the specific moment it happened.