ErickOscar is a Panamanian-American singer-songwriter who’s called the US home for 34 years, with a personal and professional life spent moving between countries across Latin America. That background shows up directly in a catalogue that refuses to sit still, touching country, pop, ballads, salsa, merengue, bachata, flamenco, vallenato, reggaeton, mariachi, and gospel. He’s played acoustic guitar for more than three decades, sings in his church’s worship band, and has written over 1,200 songs, treating the guitar less as a hobby than as a kind of therapy for processing daily life. His recent move into digital production opened up a new set of tools, and he now produces his own records, describing himself as an amateur producer who genuinely enjoys bringing his songs to life. His new nine-track album, Live, Learn, and Love Without Regrets, moves between English and Spanish across pop, ballad, gospel, and bachata influences.
Live, Learn, and Love Without Regrets
The emotional title track began as a personal prayer ErickOscar wrote seven years ago, one he still listens to most mornings to keep himself grounded. As a statement of faith, it lays out values like patience, humility, gratitude, kindness, and courage, while acknowledging that faith wavers and patience runs out sometimes too. Living without regret, in this framing, doesn’t mean living without mistakes, it means learning to carry them without letting them define you. “Say What I Feel” follows with a more vulnerable confession, growing up in a loving home where affection existed but was rarely spoken aloud, and the adult narrator’s decision to finally break that pattern, especially with his own kids. “Even If I Forget” turns a small domestic slip, forgetting an anniversary card, into a broader meditation on imperfection, admitting flaws without pretending forgetting a date means forgetting the person. That same idea resurfaces in “Because I Said So,” one of the album’s sharper lyrical moments, where a father answers his daughter’s endless questions until he finally falls back on his own father’s old go-to line, realizing in the moment that he’s become exactly who he once listened to.
“Te Voy a Tirar La Chancleta” flips into reggaeton and pure humor, leaning on a very familiar piece of Latin American family lore, a mother chasing down her kid with a sandal after some mischief, exaggerated into something almost mythical in its aim and reach. By the song’s end, though, that discipline reveals itself as its own form of devotion, the sandal standing in for a mother’s whole life dedicated to her child. “Show Me The Way” catches its narrator stuck at a crossroads, unsure of the next step, and builds toward the album’s central idea: you don’t need to see the whole road to start walking it, especially once you accept that time, people, and chances aren’t unlimited. “More Than You Know,” along with its Spanish pop version “Más De Lo Que Tú Crees” and a later bachata rendition, pushes back against the instinct to measure your own worth by what you lack, starting with someone staring into a mirror fixated on their shortcomings and arguing that real meaning comes from what pulls you outside yourself, not from chasing happiness directly. The multilingual versions of that song say something about ErickOscar’s identity too, treating English and Spanish less as a divide than as two traditions he can move between freely to tell the same story.
Musically, acoustic guitar runs through nearly everything here as a connective thread, while digital production opens the door to different rhythms, arrangements, and textures depending on what each song needs, intimate and dramatic on the ballads, more rhythmically driven and culturally specific on the bachata and Latin tracks. That range makes for an album without one single formula, though it occasionally leans toward feeling a little too smoothed-over in its more AI-assisted digital passages, and a handful of lyrics explain their own point more than they need to. Where the record works best is in its specific, lived-in details, a forgotten card, an inherited phrase, a sandal in a mother’s hand, letting those small memories open into something universal rather than announcing the lesson outright.
Final Thoughts
Live, Learn, and Love Without Regrets is a genuinely personal record from a songwriter with decades of material behind him, using nine songs to hold a conversation with himself, his family, and his faith. It’s available now on Spotify. For more, visit his official site, or follow him on Instagram, Facebook, X, and TikTok.
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