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Born in Chicago, Lare “Lucky”, and Greg “Gig” Garcia have been musical from a very early age and started performing at age 12 and 10 respectively. Through the encouragement of their parents they embraced their musical gifts and by their early teens were playing guitars and singing in Australia, the Fiji Islands and across the U.S.
Their diverse musical influences were centered around the Beatles and many other bands that emerged from England during the British Invasion of the 1960’s as well as numerous rhythm and blues, funk, Latin, jazz and rock artists including James Brown, Average White Band, Chicago; Earth, Wind & Fire, Santana and the Sons of Champlin. |
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Gig is one of those very gifted and select musicians that can perform proficiently on more than one instrument - at the same time. It is amazing to watch him play keyboards and bass guitar simultaneously, while singing!
Along with his touring and extensive session credits he is an accomplished songwriter, commercial jingle writer, producer and Emmy award winner. Respected as a remarkable musician Gig has also added acting credits to his résumé with his performance in the 1996 Touchstone Pictures release “Phenomena” which featured John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick, Robert Duvall and Forest Whitaker. He is also seen in Eric Clapton's "Change the World" video.
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Lare is a respected recording and performing artist recognized for years on the west coast as a premier guitarist and studio musician.
Graduating from the Los Angeles Recording Workshop Garcia is also a talented producer and recording engineer.
He loves to perform and his distinctive guitar style been described as “passionate” and strongly influenced by his idols Jimi Hendrix, Laurendo Almieda, Jeff Beck, Terry Kath (Chicago), Eric Clapton, Bolo Sete, Neil Giraldo (Pat Benatar) and Carlos Santana.
For years Garcia was founder and director of "Rockin' for Kids". This non-profit organization was designed to assist various child sexual abuse program centers and hospices for terminally ill children in the San Francisco Bay Area via the Jennie Garcia Memorial Concert Series.
Garcia has also spoken to elementary, middle and high school students in California and Washington state regarding continued education and ear protection awareness.
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Originally from New York Jim Grayberg started playing drums at the age of 5. After moving to Los Angeles he majored in music and began playing professionally at the age of 15. He was a sought after studio player in the L.A. scene doing session work on the hit TV show, “Mad About You” and the motion picture, “Look Who’s Talking”. After moving to the Sacramento area he began performing with the Garcia Brothers and is the driving beat and a major contributor to their distinctive sound. Jim is also a founding member of the award winning jazz group “Interplay”.
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Born in an igloo in the frozen tundra of northern Wisconsin, Dave Schuler started playing keyboards at age 9. His stylistic roots span multiple genres including jazz, rock, pop, country and classical music. He’ll even admit to playing a few polkas (hey… he’s from Wisconsin). He cites Jimmy Smith, Keith Emerson and Chick Corea as early influences. He began playing professionally at age 15 and graduated from the University of Minnesota majoring in Music and Computer Engineering. His performing career has found him in venues across the USA; Canada; Puerto Rico and as far away as Beijing, China sharing the stage with artists as diverse as INXS, Randy Brecker, Badfinger, the Replacements, Guess Who, Billy Preston, The Rembrandts and Wendy O Wilson.
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