José Manuel Aguilera is a Composer, Guitarist, Singer, Producer, and Writer in Mexico. Since 1994 he is the leader of the rock group La Barranca. He has also been part of Blood Asteka, Nine Rain, and Jaguares.
Danny T. Levin – Los Angeles
Danny says he lives music. Performing, composing, arranging, producing, teaching, engineering, songwriting, singing, playing, clapping, stomping, and more. With a have a degree in music composition from UCLA, he’s recorded with Iggy Pop, Snoop Dog, English Beat, Glen Campbell, Rilo, Kiley, Lenka and many others. He’s performed on Austin City Limits, Conan, Craig Ferguson, Jimmy Kimmel, George Lopez and The Tonight Show twice.
Rocket Ritchotte – Los Angeles
Rocket was born in Temple, Texas and grew up in Attleboro, a small town in Massachusetts. His father, a country guitarist going by the name Rick Rayle, had young Rocket appear with him on stage at the Grand Ol’ Opry. Rayle played with many greats from Johnny Cash to Minnie Pearl. Rocket traded in his Mickey Mouse guitar (literally) and started guitar lessons with his father at age 11. Five years later, he was playing clubs all over Boston and Providence (they were a little more lax on ID’s back then).
Gilli Moon – Vocals – Los Angeles
An Australian Los Angeles based singer-songwriter. She is the co-founder and president of Songsalive! and one of the co-producers of the Los Angeles Women’s Music Festival. Gilli moon delivers conscious creativity and a brave sense of self-expression in her energetic and expressive performances, music, media and prose. She is an artist entrepreneur and creative warrior and philanthropy for other artists is a big part of her life. She lives and breathes her dream as an artist creating awesome, hopefully awe-inspiring music, products and projects for the world through her own label, Warrior Girl Music
Recording in Central Texas: Austin, The Alamo, Dripping Springs
On our Project ELÉCTRICO journey, we had the opportunity to do some recording in Central Texas. Since I was born in San Antonio and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, I wanted to have some Texas musicians contribute to our recording adventure.
Alan Haynes – Austin, TX
Alan Haynes is an American Texas Blues guitarist. Alan has been playing professionally since the 1970s and has performed with Blues legends that include Stevie Ray Vaughan, Johnny Winter, Albert Collins, Albert King, The Fabulous Thunderbirds (1980’s version with Jimmie Vaughan), Robert Cray, Bonnie Raitt, John Lee Hooker, and Otis Rush among others. He resides in Austin, Texas.
Ron Wikso – Austin, TX
Ron currently lives in the Austin, TX area with his son, Jesse. He currently divides his professional time between live touring gigs and session work. Besides the traditional studio scene, he does a lot of session work for clients from all over the world, at his own private studio.
He started playing drums at the age of 7 and studied privately with Larry Ramsden while growing up on Long Island. Along with his private studies, Ron played in several local bands and began playing his first professional gigs by the time he was 12. He also participated in as many of the school bands, orchestras and choirs as he could in an effort to learn as much as possible about music.