ESPERANZA

FIRST OF ALL, I want to thank all of you for being such great fans. Due to the busy recording schedule this year it has been hard to respond to everyone's emails. So I want to let you know that you are the BEST fans any band could hope for!!! I'm going to make sure the new album is the best one yet!!!!
Until next time,
~ Carlos
BIO:
Esperanza, led by multi-instrumentalist Carlos Villalobos, brings together the rich heritage of Spanish/Flamenco guitar with contemporary rhythms and dance percussion. This self-titled Higher Octave Music debut is a collection of flowing, up-tempo dance tracks and lush, atmospheric ballads.
Hailing from Chicago, Villalobos is a multi-talented artist, producer, songwriter and mixer who also sings, plays guitars, keyboards, drums, and bass. He currently is based out of his private recording studio, Villa de Lobos in Los Angeles, CA. He is the founder of the critically acclaimed, Grammy nominated ESPERANZA, incorporating Spanish and Flamenco guitars with global dance grooves. ESPERANZA has been featured on various HBO shows including “Sex in the City” and is widely available.
ESPERANZA (LA) (Higher Octave/Virgin) charted on Billboard’s Top New Age Albums at ..23 (Nov. 14, 1998 issue) within 6 weeks of it’s debut and his second release, ESPERANZA II hit the Top New Age Album charts at ..17.
Here’s what people are saying about ESPERANZA:
“This technically brilliant Spanish guitar album is fabulous!” – a music fan from Amazon.com.
“If a mans passion for a woman can be expressed through his guitar, this is what it sounds like.” - Jody from Minneapolis, MN on Amazon.com
“Erotic, moody and introspective…this album is fodder for the soul.” – An Amazon.com customer
“ESPERANZA takes the Spanish, guitar-laden sound most notably popularized by the likes of The Gypsy Kngs and infuses it with sexy, saucy and modern beats all in one highly seductive record.” – AudioRevolution.com.
When Carlos is not working on or playing with ESPERANZA, he is busy with his own production company, Los Productions. He has written & performed music underscores for movies such as ‘Warzone’, ‘Blood Brothers’, & ‘Diablo’ and has scored four HBO movie specials. Carlos wrote, produced, performed and mixed the theme song, as well as the original music for the television series, Baywatch Hawaii. He wrote the original additional music cues for "Shall We Dance" (Miramax), Wes Craven's "Cursed” (Miramax), "One Way Ticket" (Valley of the Kings Productions(Canada)) and "Paula", the first film for Menagerie Films for Robert Title and George Tillman who later directed "Soul Food" and “Men of Honor”. He writes and produces original music for commercials, corporate videos, independent movies, trailers, industrials and video games. He is regularly tapped to do demos for virtually every label including Jive, Warner Brothers, Virgin, EMI, Capitol and Geffen.
Carlos launched Alistar Records in 1998 to serve as vehicle to promote his own music to the masses and is currently at work on ESPERANZA III due in 2006.I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4