Marco Santiago, New Blues-Jazzer in Hawaii

Hawaii-based blues-jazz-R&B artist, Marco Santiago, independently released his CD entitled "Rudiments" on 8/20/12. "Rudiments" is the first in a series of four planned albums to be released in the 2012 to 2014 time frame. The first two albums will focus on smoother elements of jazz, latin, and soft rock genres suitable for listening on sandy beaches or during late night encounters. The latter two albums will deal with heavier things often found in deeper waters when exploring the harder edges of blues, rock, and jazz.

Marco is an American songwriter, producer, and recording artist. His musical stylings blend blues, jazz, latin, soft rock, and R&B. His works feature various guitar styles and layered percussion in both vocal and instrumental formats. Marco plays all instruments, performs all singing, engineers and mixes, and conducts all production on his recordings.

Marco plays Fender, Gibson, Godin, Taylor, and Martin electric and acoustic guitars; Fender basses; a Yamaha MO8 synthesizer; and a Roland TD-4 drum set.

Marco is an active member of ASCAP, The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.

His next CD, "Surrender" will be released as scheduled on 3/15/13.

Marco favors the West Coast, small luxury cars, Dominican cigars, Lagavulin Scotch, flying in first-class, and women with tattoos. And you can hear all of those elements in his music.