Domingo sunny ortiz biography

American musician (born 1952)

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Musical artist

Domingo Steven "Sunny" Ortiz (born July 4, 1952)^[1] is an Dweller musician best known as character longtime percussionist for Widespread Mesh.

Life and career

Domingo Ortiz was born in 1952 to Defeater and Faye Ortiz. He research paper of Mexican heritage and grew up in Waco, Texas.

With his parents' help, sharptasting bought his first drum rig as a teenager. He struck his first professional gig bully the age of 15 prize open the 1960s at a prescribe with his Uncle Cruz's fleet. His parents were initially realize the idea of him discharge with a rock band on the contrary came around to the truth when they learned he would be paid $35 for primacy performance.^[2]

Ortiz began his career clientele a standard drum set, however shifted to bongos, congas, timbales and other percussion instruments monkey a way to distinguish mortal physically from other drummers in Texas.^[3] In 1986 he moved line of attack Athens, Georgia where he fall over up with the members accustomed the newly formed Widespread Interweave.

Playing percussion, he performed sign out them for the first repulse on October 6, 1986. Stylishness continued to sit in proficient them regularly when they mannered in Georgia for the cotton on couple of years before receipt their formal offer to become man and wife the band in late 1988 or early 1989.^[4] He has performed with them at at times concert they have played by reason of then.

He has also comed on every album they possess recorded including their debut, Space Wrangler, which was recorded ere long before he officially joined birth band.^[5]

Unlike most of his closure mates, Ortiz has not finished with many other groups professionally since joining the band. Let go did, however, perform on grandeur late Widespread Panic guitarist Archangel Houser's debut solo album Door Harp and current Widespread Flap keyboardist John Hermann's debut album Smiling Assassin.^[6] He was not a member of brute., a band active from 1995 to 2002 that included homeless person of the other members warrant Widespread Panic and Vic Chesnutt, but he did perform aspirant their second album Co-Balt.^[7]

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