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OBJECTIVE: Broadcasting, promotion and distribution of material; to participate in first level hip festivals, important rock music events, and to share the stage with world-class acts in Mexico, Europe, the US and/or at any other place on the planet!
EXPERIENCE:
EL CLAN 2006/08
Professional Singer; Vocalist and Lyricist for the group. When you get to listen to the amazing evolution, the sheer raw power and depth of their new compositions, it becomes clear that this band has reached some sort of threshold where they create a fusion from the darkest parts of El Clan and the more direct, louder parts of Ansia, incorporating in the process the best of both worlds, yet exploring new frontiers and breaking new ground, without constraining themselves to any specific trends, and awarding the final product a more contemporary and bewitching quality: El Clan released in 2006 a symbiont of gothic/hard metal song named 'Boca de Lobo', which is just the prelude of what is to come: They finished working in the recording studio (from May to October 2007) making a full album, and they promise their new CD will 'blow your brain out'. Be warned! Look for the record, it's out since Spring 2008 (Mexico) and later since Spring 2009 (in the US). The record is titled "Nadie está mejor muerto" ("No-one's better-off dead"), and it includes illustrations by famous young mexican rising-star photographer Fernando Montiel Klint. Release date: May 10, 2008. RollingStone Magazine Latin American edition nominated this CD as "One of the 10 Best Latin Rock Albums of 2008. In 2009, EL CLAN is invited for the first time to the huge Vive Latino Festival, a two-day extravaganza that showcases only the best acts of the Latinamerica region. The band will continue promoting "Nadie está mejor muerto" throughout 2009, and they are beginning to write new material in order to make a new album by Winter 2010...
ORFEO 2003-04
Professional singer; Vocalist and Lyricist. Rick Lassala, a.k.a. 'Terkus' for this project, leads this original new proposal of mexican space/prog rock. The band released an instrumental CD in 2003. Also in that year, they performed as the opening act for the Italian progressive gods IL BALLETTO DI BRONZO at the city of Puebla; Mexico. They appear in a sampler of the most promising talents on the genre, that gathers the works of several mexican bands. Songs like 'The Black Ruler' and 'When Science Meets the Senses' have become underground jewels, in spite that they never were properly recorded and are found only on home-recording demo form.
ANSIA 1990-99
Professional Musician; Vocalist and lyricist for the band (three records made, Last CD was edited in 1998.) Extensive touring throughout Mexico and the US; in 1993, invited to the International South by Southwest Music Festival, in Austin, Texas, representing Mexico; in 1994, toured Europe, making several shows in Switzerland, Spain (opening for british act PARADISE LOST in Barcelona) and Holland; in 1995, gets an opening slot for the BON JOVI concerts in the Sports Palace, Mexico City; in 1996, participates in the Wateke-MTV Tour, playing on all main mexican urban areas, along with some other important bands of the mexican rock scene. In 1999, band participates on a collective project to make a Tribute to the famous latin rock band CAIFANES, with the song “Perdí mi ojo de venado.”
MISTUS Early 80's
Vocalist. From this seminal group, that played progressive rock in English, heavily influenced by bands like Queen and Rush, surged great mexican rock scene exponents like Ricardo Lassala (Ansia, and now with El Clan), Jarris Margalli (Ninot, Luna Verde, Jaguares) and Jorge Fratta (Ninot, Romántico Desliz).
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
* First Place, with ANSIA, at The Battle of the Bands, Rockotitlán, 1990 (Prize: the recording, distribution and promotion of their debut CD)
* PHONOS award medal, Revelation Group, 1991; News Toreo
* Sol de Neón award, Best New Band, 1992; National Auditorium
MEMBERSHIPS AND EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES:
- Member of Greenpeace México: 1995-01 (Pro Bono translations)
- Mountain biking; basketball; soccer; amateur photography
INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE:
- USA - Road Tour with ANSIA, 1995 live performances in Houston and El Paso, Texas, as well as in Los Angeles, San José and San Francisco, California.
- Europe - 5 week Tour with ANSIA, 1994 doing several venues in three countries: Spain, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
- USA - Studio recording of ANSIA's second CD, 1993 Arlyn Studios, Austin, Texas
- USA - Group invited to play live at the “South by Southwest” International Music Fest, in Austin, Texas, 1993
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