An entrepreneur in addition to being an exceptionally multi-faceted musician, Christopher Cortez moved to New Orleans in 1996 and founded his own music label, Blue Bamboo Music. Reflecting many aspects of the music industry, his label's main motivation aims at creating a musician's cooperative for independent artists who desire international distribution without the usual conventional recording contract. Cortez is an artist who wants to control his own artistic vision and to offer the same opportunity to other exceptional musicians.