Booking: Wendy Owens
805.440.9462
BIO
Damon Castillo is an artist, songwriter, musician, producer, and mixer based in San Luis Obispo, a town on the Central Coast of California that National Geographic and Oprah Winfrey deemed "the happiest place in the country". As an artist, he leads the Damon Castillo Band, whose eclectic, jazz-informed rock, funk, and soul paints a sun-bleached portrait of life and love in the Golden State. The band's albums include Mess of Me, Laurel Lane, Live at the Mission, and Revolving Door, which feature the work of his long-time band as well as Grammy Award-winning producer Ross Hogarth; Grammy Award-winning mixer F. Reid Shippen; and guest musicians like Sheila E., Aaron Sterling, and Sean Hurley.
Apart from recording and touring with the band, Castillo owns and operates Laurel Lane, a studio where he produces and mixes albums for countless artists and composes music that has appeared in national campaigns for Target, Starbucks, Miller Lite, MTV, and many others.
Capturing the excitement of both a brand-new love and a brand-new song, Damon Castillo’s latest single, “My Kind of Jam”, is the perfect R&B/Funk/Pop companion for those summer barbecues, afternoon cruises, and late-night dance parties. The song has Prince style direct-recorded guitars, funky p-bass, and retro Juno synths, and features the virtuosic talk-box of Swatkins (Allen Stone, Scary Pockets). Find him at damoncastillo.com.
Damon has shared the stage with Chicago, Train, Tower of Power, The Temptations, John Scofield, Chris Isaak, Robin Ford, Poncho Sanchez and many others.
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BOOKING: WENDY OWENS
805.440.9462
QUOTES
"The minute I saw the video I was blown away by the group. The world needs to hear the Damon Castillo Band.” - Allen Randolph, Wealth TV
The Damon Castillo Band is a musical experience, continuing to define what music should be and what music was. Their style is impossible to classify in one genre. Castillo reaches into his infinite lyric coffer, planting a story to a rock foundation with roots of jazz, soul and pop that sprout a budding, addictive song full of rhythms, harmonies and melodies. - NBC San Diego
Thankfully, Damon Castillo Band had the formula to turn a crowd full of random conversation into a captive audience that couldn't take their eyes and ears away from the stage. In all, Saturday night was a funk and rock inspired return to very real music.
