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Justin Ancheta

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About Me

Justin Ancheta is the guitarist and singer for the band, Pills & Jackets (formerly 'Sinclair'). Starting his musical career with classical instruments, Ancheta started on the piano, violin, and percussion. Guitar came quickly to him at a young age due to his father always playing the Ukelele and the guitar around the house. In 1992, the string quartet of Auburn, California recruited Justin for second violinist. He became actively involved in the Auburn Youth Symphony, School Symphony, and school choir for the remainder of his youth. High School did not have a symphony but had a regular school band with wind instruments, so Justin decided to get involved on percussion in the High School band and and Baritone vocals on the Choir. Nights after school and sports, Justin would go home with friends to the 'jam room' set up in an extra bedroom at his parents house and play music for hours into the night.
The years 1999 through 2003, Ancheta continued pursuing music in Sacramento, California with the band Sinclair. In those years the band was nominated for best latin/world band for the Sacramento Music Awards (SAMMIES) three years in a row. Sinclair also won the Battle of the Bands at Sacramento State in 2003.
Justin has decided to continue his musical career in the bigger city of San Francisco. "I've always wanted to live closer to the ocean," Justin says of the move down to San Francisco with the band Pills & Jackets. The band consists of Jesse Olswang on drums, and Eric Alonzo on Bass. Since moving down to San Francisco, the band has been able to finally make a living with their music. What it has taken is "taking it to the streets." Literally, the band sets up on random street corners for impromptu performances and has taken the city by surprise with selling over 10,000 CD's in the first year. The band still plays the clubs and festivals up and down the coast in hopes to attract opening slots on national tours. For more information please visit www.pillsandjackets.com

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/26/2006
Band Website: justinancheta.com
Band Members: A monkey, A mouse, and a Chimpanzee.
Influences: Clinton Fearon, Michael Franti, Bono, Sting, Eddie Veddar, Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Keller Williams, Nick Drake, Tim Bluhm, T-Bone Burnett, Nick Beardon, Hernan Battiato, Jesse Olswang, Herbie Hancock, James Brown, Michael Jackson, more but I'll add them later...
Sounds Like:

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Record Label: Hit Pit Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

KAHI RADIO!

In light of some great people helping the efforts in the Auburn area of California, I'm happy to announce that you can request "counter culture" and "broken house" on KAHI Radio, The Voice of the Foot...
Posted by Justin Ancheta on Sat, 24 May 2008 02:04:00 PST

New Video of Martin Furey cover.

Interesting. Met Martin from playing the streets and he asked me to cover one of his songs called "xxx" so here it is. Hope you enjoy! ...
Posted by Justin Ancheta on Mon, 19 May 2008 10:54:00 PST

Goodness.

Great news. I have new songs posted ('Food For Your Soul' & 'Hurried Day' - along with 'Armadillo' from Mostro). Please take a listen and support by purchasing it through snocap on the main page. I al...
Posted by Justin Ancheta on Fri, 16 May 2008 02:25:00 PST

Lovefestival News 2008.

Hello Everyone!! Well, it's getting closer... JUNE 6, 7,8!The line-up is amazing and if you haven't yet bought your tickets--now is the time. The tickets are going quickly and we want YOU all to be ...
Posted by Justin Ancheta on Wed, 07 May 2008 03:16:00 PST

Check out this video: JUSTIN ANCHETA - FREESTYLE - 04.24.08

Check out this video: JUSTIN ANCHETA - FREESTYLE - 04.24.08 ..Add to My Profile | More VideosThanks Marizen : )Also, I just checked the ringtones and they work! very cool. Try it out and ...
Posted by Justin Ancheta on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:23:00 PST

Dont mind the advertising... good deal for me on ringtone : )

So I'm trying something out. People keep asking me for ringtones and I have them available but this company made it pretty easy for me to post and sell some ringtones. You can also go to cdbaby and bu...
Posted by Justin Ancheta on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:28:00 PST

Cool video about schools and kids.

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Posted by Justin Ancheta on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:58:00 PST

A dream’s first step is a map to achieven it.

So to get this idea going, I thought I’d post it on my blog and let people tear it up. Please make all the comments you with, positive and negative. I’d like to finalize a sheet on this tr...
Posted by Justin Ancheta on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:18:00 PST

La Jolla Elementary Show.

Hey Peops. It is great to be back in San Francisco and playing with P&J (tonight and Friday night). Right when I got back into town I went to a rehearsal and then the streets to promote the big sho...
Posted by Justin Ancheta on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:58:00 PST

Ocean and Knowledge Lyrics.

So I guess I don’t have these lyrics posted anywhere. Joey asked me to post these ones so here they are. Thanks for appreciating the art and I hope to see you all April 4th at the Broadway Studi...
Posted by Justin Ancheta on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:33:00 PST