TONY GUERRERO
Genres: Pop, Art Song, Folk, Swing, Soul Jazz, RnB, Latin Jazz, Fusion • United States

Tony Guerrero began playing trumpet at the age of nine. Actually, he thought his teacher had given him a trombone to play and after a few weeks of telling his parents he was playing the trombone, he was surprised when his dad actually saw the instrument and informed him that, indeed, it was a trumpet. By then, it was too late and he was hooked. While he took to it naturally, it was the inspiration of his junior high music teacher, Mark Takeuchi, that led him to fall in love with music and pursue it as a life-long passion. His high school and college years were full of self-study, lessons and self-propelled band projects where he began to experiment with writing songs. His early love of artists such as Led Zeppellin and KISS had instilled a taste for rock'n'roll, and the music of Chuck Mangione introduced him to the idea that read more...