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Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, composer, producer and arranger Zecca Esquibel's first stage performance as a piano player was at Peabody Preparatory in Baltimore, Maryland at the age of 7. He spent his childhood and teens winning a daunting schedule of classical piano competitions untill he left home at 18 to become a rock musician. At the age of 23, in New York city, he received rave reviews for his performance in the Off-Off-Broadway hit musical "Lovers" in his basement loft on Church St. which became known as The Basement Theater. This was the "rat infested loft on Church St." where KISS rehearsed that Gene Simmon's mentions in his autobiography! | Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, composer, producer and arranger Zecca Esquibel's first stage performance as a piano player was at Peabody Preparatory in Baltimore, Maryland at the age of 7. He spent his childhood and teens winning a daunting schedule of classical piano competitions untill he left home at 18 to become a rock musician. At the age of 23, in New York city, he received rave reviews for his performance in the Off-Off-Broadway hit musical "Lovers" in his basement loft on Church St. which became known as The Basement Theater. This was the "rat infested loft on Church St." where KISS rehearsed that Gene Simmon's mentions in his autobiography! | ||
Immediately after, he sinlge-handedly founded a live-in loft and rehearsal studio complex called The Music Building at 251 W 30th St. in Manhattan's Garment District (now called The Recording Arts Building). Before the year was out, Zecca was playing his first arena's and colesseums with a funk artist on RCA he despises so much he refuses to mention him by name. | Immediately after, he sinlge-handedly founded a live-in loft and rehearsal studio complex called The Music Building at 251 W 30th St. in Manhattan's Garment District (now called The Recording Arts Building). Before the year was out, Zecca was playing his first arena's and colesseums with a funk artist on RCA he despises so much he refuses to mention him by name. | ||
| − | + | Disgusted, Zecca complained to his best friend, the late Sean Delaney (often called "the fifth KISS' even by Gene Simmons himself), and Sean arranged an audition with Cherry Vanilla, who at that time still had Kasim Sultan on bass. When Cherry's entire band deserted her to join David (New York Dolls) Johanson, Cherry and Zecca had to form a new, often temporary, band. Miles Copeland saw them in New York and invited Cherry, Zecca, and Cherry's new love, guitarist Louie Lepore, to come to London offering members of The Police to fill in as the missing musicians. The rest is well covered in Sting's "Broken Music. | |
| + | After 18 months of touring and recording in the US and Europe with Cherry Vanilla (RCA London), Zecca returned to New York and wrote the music for his own band GET WET (Boardwalk Records). Get Wet was born when New Jersey native Sherri Beachfront invited Zecca to watch her singing at a recording session at the legendary Electric Lady Studios in New York City's Greewich Village. They fell in love, and the series of songs which he wrote for her, and became the album "Get Wet", is a chronical of their relationship. Their single "Just So Lonely" rose to #39 in Billboard's Pop Chart and Top 10 overseas. You can check out Get Wet at Soundclick where they have 8 songs up, including 2 live cuts and a rare studio outtake (See Soundclick link below). | ||
(More Cherry Vanilla/ Police info soon. Please bare with us!) | (More Cherry Vanilla/ Police info soon. Please bare with us!) | ||
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File:1977 03 06 nasvhillestingzecca.jpg Zecca Esquibel with Sting - the photo was taken at the Nashville's dressing room | |
| Basic information | |
| Birth name: | Zecca Esquibel |
| Birth date: | BIRTH DATE |
| Origin: | Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| Occupation(s): | keyboard player |
| Associated acts: | Cherry Vanilla |
| Official website: | OFFICIAL WEBSITE |
Zecca Esquibel was the keyboard player in the Cherry Vanilla band in early 1977, which also included Sting and Stewart Copeland.
Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, composer, producer and arranger Zecca Esquibel's first stage performance as a piano player was at Peabody Preparatory in Baltimore, Maryland at the age of 7. He spent his childhood and teens winning a daunting schedule of classical piano competitions untill he left home at 18 to become a rock musician. At the age of 23, in New York city, he received rave reviews for his performance in the Off-Off-Broadway hit musical "Lovers" in his basement loft on Church St. which became known as The Basement Theater. This was the "rat infested loft on Church St." where KISS rehearsed that Gene Simmon's mentions in his autobiography! Immediately after, he sinlge-handedly founded a live-in loft and rehearsal studio complex called The Music Building at 251 W 30th St. in Manhattan's Garment District (now called The Recording Arts Building). Before the year was out, Zecca was playing his first arena's and colesseums with a funk artist on RCA he despises so much he refuses to mention him by name. Disgusted, Zecca complained to his best friend, the late Sean Delaney (often called "the fifth KISS' even by Gene Simmons himself), and Sean arranged an audition with Cherry Vanilla, who at that time still had Kasim Sultan on bass. When Cherry's entire band deserted her to join David (New York Dolls) Johanson, Cherry and Zecca had to form a new, often temporary, band. Miles Copeland saw them in New York and invited Cherry, Zecca, and Cherry's new love, guitarist Louie Lepore, to come to London offering members of The Police to fill in as the missing musicians. The rest is well covered in Sting's "Broken Music. After 18 months of touring and recording in the US and Europe with Cherry Vanilla (RCA London), Zecca returned to New York and wrote the music for his own band GET WET (Boardwalk Records). Get Wet was born when New Jersey native Sherri Beachfront invited Zecca to watch her singing at a recording session at the legendary Electric Lady Studios in New York City's Greewich Village. They fell in love, and the series of songs which he wrote for her, and became the album "Get Wet", is a chronical of their relationship. Their single "Just So Lonely" rose to #39 in Billboard's Pop Chart and Top 10 overseas. You can check out Get Wet at Soundclick where they have 8 songs up, including 2 live cuts and a rare studio outtake (See Soundclick link below).
(More Cherry Vanilla/ Police info soon. Please bare with us!)
In the 1990's, he was musical director for "Brenda Bergman: Her Reality" (T.W.E.E.D. at Westbeth Theater Center), Abba Elethea's "Sister Songs" (LaMaMa) and Ron ("A Chorus Line") Dennis' "Don't Grab The Gowns Until You See The Gurney" (New York Theater Workshop and Highways, L.A.), and he wrote and performed the scores for Berliner Kunstprise winner Anthony Ingrassia's "Sweet Dreams" (LaMaMa) and Rosalyn Drexler's "Pineapple Face" (Theater For The New City). His choral composition "Psalm 130" (mixed choir, trumpets, organ and soloists) was commissioned and performed at Mass with His Eminence the late John J. Cardinal O'Connor for the 150th Anniversary of Most Holy Redeemer Church in New York City. Zecca began his collaboration with "downtown" performance artist John Kelly in 1994's "Far Cry From Bliss" (Danspace), and he has accompanied Mr. Kelly in several recitals as well as all three of his Joni Mitchell shows ("Paved Paradise", "Shiny Hot Nights" and "Get Up And Jive"). He also played keys for all of blues legend Garland Jeffreys' US and Canada tours from 2002 to 2007.
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http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/Zecca_Esquibel_interview_2006.htm
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