Carlos Jonathan VillaLobos, Jr. (born January 28, 1975) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist musician, who writes and produces original music for rock and pop artists, and composes modern orchestral music for trailers, television shows and films.

Career

Esperanza

Esperanza is VillaLobos's Latin-new age flamenco project, on which he performed all instruments, and engineered, recorded, produced, and mixed the albums, with guest guitarist Andre Barboza appearing on both ''La Esperanza'' and ''Esperanza II'' (2001), and bass player Rob Hagopian on the first release, ''La Esperanza''. The group released its self-titled debut LP on the

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label on September 22, 1998. ''

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'' described the album as "swirling, fleet flamenco guitar work meets modern dance rhythms

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many rewarding layers to uncover". In 1999, the group appeared on the compilation album ''Chicago Rapid Transit: Grooves 99'' with a remix track named "Spanish Eyes/Flamenc Tronic Mix". The season finale of ''

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'', "Ex and the City", which aired on October 3, 1999, featured four Esperanza songs: "La Punta", "El Loco", "Love & Lust", and "Cara Mia." La Esperanza released ''Esperanza II'' on July 17, 2001, again on Higher Octave. On December 12, 2006, Esperanza released a holiday album entitled "Songs For The Season."

Albums

*''La Esperanza'' (1998) (Higher Octave Music/Alistar Records) *''Esperanza II'' (2001) (Higher Octave Music/Alistar Records) *''Songs for the Season'' (2006) (Alistar Records) *''Valentine's Night'' (2011) (Alistar Records) *''Esperanza II (remastered)'' (2014) (Alistar Records) *''La Esperanza'' (2014) (Alistar Records)

Compilations

*''Music for the New Millennium'' (Virgin) *''Nuevo Flamenco'' (Higher Octave/Virgin) *''Rendezvous: Echoes Within the City'' (Higher Octave/Virgin) *''Tabu: Mondo Flamenco'' (Narada) *''Gypsy Magic: Nouveau Flamenco'' (EMI)

Angry Chiwawah

Angry Chiwawah was Carlos VillaLobos's heavy rock project. The band released their album ''Unleashed'' on Rhodium Records on April 30, 2002. The cover art for the album features model/actress

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. The band's music appeared on '' The Real World: Las Vegas'', '' The Real World: Paris'' and '' Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Gauntlet''.

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preloaded the band's song "Please" onto the company's

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Starting From Zero

In 2008, VillaLobos began production on a new rock project, Starting From Zero. VillaLobos tracked drums with producer/engineer Rae Dileo at Solid Sound Recording Studio in

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. The rest of the project was recorded in VillaLobos' home studio, Villa de Lobos, and in 2010 the band changed its name to SuperLoaded.

Other projects

VillaLobos's first television music project was as the composer of original music for ''

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'' in 2000. He wrote and provided instrumentation for one song per episode using local vocalists, and wrote and performed the theme song "Let Me Be The One", with co-writers

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VillaLobos engineered, produced and mixed

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's debut album ''

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'' in 2000. He also co-wrote the music with

and performed all instruments on the album, for which he received his second

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nomination and his first win. VillaLobos is featured on the 2001 album ''

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'' by

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. He co-wrote the track "Bleed For Me" with

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and

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, and also played guitar on the recording. VillaLobos contributed a remix track, "In Dreams (Chase The White Rabbit Into Pakistan)" to

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's fourth album, ''

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'', released in November 2008. VillaLobos worked with

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on the song "What The DJ Spins" for the television show ''

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'', playing drums, bass and additional keyboards. He also worked on several other songs featured on the show, and as the ADR Supervisor in Chicago for the series. He collaborated with Empire co-writer and singer Ashley Ballard to form a side project called LA LA LA.

Awards

In 1998, the

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gave a Hoku Award for Best Pop CD to VillaLobos for his work on "Jalen". VillaLobos won a second Hoku Award for Best Reggae Album for his work on "O-shen" in 2000.

Work

References

External links

Official Website

Alistar Records
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on Discogs

MTV
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