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Santino

Genre:

Rock

Location:

Hollywood, California,
United States

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Biography

-Santino's loungy mid tempo Guajira "INFIERNO" made it to the big screen, in one of Summer 2005's biggest movie " WAR OF THE WORLDS" directed by STEVEN SPIELBERG and featuring Tom Cruise.
-"PARA ABAJO Y PARA ARRIBA", has been chosen by the producers of FX TV NETWORK golden globe winner series "THE SHIELD" to be featured in the episode #411 "A thousand deaths". This episode was aired in MAY 2005 and was watched the first day by over 3.5 million viewers. You will be able to catch that episode on DVD.
-Santino's song "CERCA" has been chosen by UNIVISION 40 to be the jingle of their show "Cerca De Ti".
-Santino was asked by music business mogul and former STING manager Miles Copeland, to write the Spanish version of one of The Police's most famous song "Every Breath You Take" for a tribute to The Police compilation.
-Santino was invited to sing and write the lyrics in Spanish of the song "KISS YOU ALL OVER" for the movie and soundtrack "EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH" featuring Jessica...

-Santino's loungy mid tempo Guajira "INFIERNO" made it to the big screen, in one of Summer 2005's biggest movie " WAR OF THE WORLDS" directed by STEVEN SPIELBERG and featuring Tom Cruise.
-"PARA ABAJO Y PARA ARRIBA", has been chosen by the producers of FX TV NETWORK golden globe winner series "THE SHIELD" to be featured in the episode #411 "A thousand deaths". This episode was aired in MAY 2005 and was watched the first day by over 3.5 million viewers. You will be able to catch that episode on DVD.
-Santino's song "CERCA" has been chosen by UNIVISION 40 to be the jingle of their show "Cerca De Ti".
-Santino was asked by music business mogul and former STING manager Miles Copeland, to write the Spanish version of one of The Police's most famous song "Every Breath You Take" for a tribute to The Police compilation.
-Santino was invited to sing and write the lyrics in Spanish of the song "KISS YOU ALL OVER" for the movie and soundtrack "EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH" featuring Jessica Simpson. The soundtrack is now available on Itunes.
-MUSICO PRO MAGAZINE nominates Santino for the "Independent Star" of the month of October 2006.
-The respected and nationally distributed BATANGA MAGAZINE gives the highest score, a 5 stars, to Santino's "Indiocumentado" and says it is "Fantastico! Indiocumentado, it's a classic must-have for all respectable collections...Disfrutala!"
-"Only the highest quality songs make it to the top. This honor demonstrates the talent and dedication it takes to write a 'Hit Song'". Billboard World Song Contest gave "ME TUMBAN" a honorable mention, among the top 1500 song entries of the 13th annual Billboard World songwriting contest.
-SANTINO writes 2 songs for the movie "NACHO LIBRE".
-Santino started the first leg of his North American tour last summer in California, North Carolina, New York and Florida, performing at colleges, festivals, events and clubs and will accomplish the second leg in the Spring in the same states but also in Texas, the Midwest , Oregon, Washington and Arizona.
-On tour, he received great support from the media and landed numerous interviews and appearances on TV and radio programs like LATV. He also received an award from Peace College.
-Santino just got back from Peru where he successfully promoted the release of his album. He did the round of the major TV and radio programs as well as press interviews. His album was well received by the media.
-Santino wins the Billboard world songwriting contest over more than 100 000 song entries with his song "Para Abajo y Para Arriba". The song will be featured in the Billboard winner compilation.
-Santino is now confirmed to perform April 21st at the biggest festival in Peru called "Rok N Pop".
-Santino's album "Indiocumentado" will be released in France in Spring 07 through Milan Edition. A show in Paris to launch the album in France is in the works for the end of May.
-"SONRIE MI CORAZON", has been chosen by the producers of NBC series KIDNAPPED to be featured in one episode.

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Management:

Milan Records

Influences:

Led Zeppelin

Yes

Pink Floyd

Bob Marley

Sting

U2

Bjork

Concrete Blonde

Members:

Santino

Albums

Indiocumentado

2007