Marcelo Quinonez

Born and raised in Los Angeles California, Marcelo fell in love with music for the first time listening to a variety of music. From the rhythm focused sounds of Salsa and Reggae to the soul bearing lyricism of Young and Dylan all were a part of his early musical indoctrination. Quiñonez started honing his skills over the years writing and performing mostly Latin music with his band Cuchata while living in Seattle. Cuchata toured up and down the West Coast and gigged regularly in Seattle, gain...

Born and raised in Los Angeles California, Marcelo fell in love with music for the first time listening to a variety of music. From the rhythm focused sounds of Salsa and Reggae to the soul bearing lyricism of Young and Dylan all were a part of his early musical indoctrination. Quiñonez started honing his skills over the years writing and performing mostly Latin music with his band Cuchata while living in Seattle. Cuchata toured up and down the West Coast and gigged regularly in Seattle, gaining good press and licensing numerous tracks for TV (Gene Simmons Family Jewels, Road Trip Nation among others) and films (most notably the IFC films feature “Mercy”). Experimentation on the last Cuchata album (which charted top ten in world & Latin categories for non commercial radio in the US and Canada) and other musical wanderings while writing TV and film music, led to new opportunities over the last three years. Through this experimentation and a new batch of experiences Marcelo decided to embark on another musical path. To find a new sound that was more fully representative of his own personnel dialogue and making that musically and emotionally universal. The songs presented in Marcelo’s first solo E.P. are stripped down, and raw. Vulnerable and pure, leading the listener to focus on the song it’s self, and the sentiment and feelings behind it. This was the only goal for this new project, write honest songs and bare the soul for others to relate. With this new debut E.P. Marcelo has come full circle in his progression as a musician and found the courage to share the soul bearing truth that inspired him from the beginning.