It's a difficult question to answer, as there have been many guitarists who have influenced my playing, so I'm going to name just two of them. The first is Richie Blackmore. When I heard him for the first time, what impressed me most was how different he was from the other great guitarists of the time: his style mixed blues, jazz and classical music with rock, while his technique, feeling and speed far surpassed everything I had heard before. He still impresses me to this day.

And the second, Steve Vai, when I heard Passion and Warfare, it blew my mind.I didn't know that so many sounds could come out of a single instrument, that ease of mixing technique, speed, styles, effects, etc. and with that, having such taste and feeling for playing the guitar seemed incredible to me. To this day, I still think he's the best. But as I said before, there are many and I can't name them all.