Back in 2008, while in high school, Roberto would spend hours on Skype with friends, often
mixing long conversations with online games. One of the most popular was Counter-Strike
1.6 No Steam.
Frustrated one day by his lack of skill in the game — and especially by repeatedly losing to his
close friend Daniel Comas — Roberto decided to change his username in protest. He chose
“Keylakiller.” The name came from a playful (and very Venezuelan) kind of humor: Keyla
was the name of Daniel’s mother, and in Caracas, close friends often tease each other with
mother jokes. For Roberto, it was a tongue-in-cheek way of saying “I’m the killer of your
mom” — a nickname born from both annoyance and camaraderie.
What started as a spontaneous joke stuck. Around the same time, Roberto began experimenting
with electronic music, making mashups on Virtual DJ and remastering them in Audacity. Under
this improvised alias, he started to shape his first electronic projects.
From that moment on, Keylakiller became more than just a gamer tag — it became Roberto’s
alter ego in the world of electronic music, the name he still uses today for his projects in the
genre.