Dr. Sebastian

Sebastián Mauricio Malla (born November 2, 1960), better known by his stage name Dr. Sebastian, is a Guatemalan-Norwegian recording artist and producer, famously affiliated with Second Beat Records as a co-founder. His music can best be described as Eurodance and/or Latin pop.

In 2019, he was named Knight First Class of the by  for his services to Norwegian music and his international success.

Early life
Sebastián was born in the Guatemalan capital of into a upper-middle class Mestizo family.

Education
He got his secondary education at in Zone 11 of Guatemala City and spent most of his youth in Zone 2 of Guatemala City. At age 20, he traveled to to train as a surgeon. To finance his student loan payments, he became a DJ at Club Heartbeat in,. Very quickly he became widely known throughout the Oslo nightlife community, as he often sang along to the records he played and took requests from attendees to play records they brought. After finishing his studies, Sebastián got a job as an emergency surgeon at, keeping his DJ-ing job as a side practice.

Heartbeat Productions A/S and Second Beat Records
In 1988, he and fellow Club Heartbeat DJs JE-Boy and Romeo Mayer teamed up with Kåre Berrefjord, a Eurodisco artist, to create the Heartbeat Productions A/S firm. By 1994, Heartbeat Productions teamed up with Ryan Folk, Mitsuomi Ekomoto and Yukio Toshida to create Second Beat Records, thus creating the new Heart Beat Studios.