According to Reynosa, Dudeo Perez is not an alter ego created for himself, but rather for “anybody” with a large imagination and big dreams who was underestimated as a child.
The alter ego is designated for “a kid in general” who was the same age that Reynosa was at the time. The band name, Dudeo Perez, is inspired by an alter ego that Reynosa created as a child. Showed it to Spencer-he put a twist on it.” We showed it to Jackson-he put a twist on it. “The week before that happened, I mean I was just-you know-writing songs in my room. “It all kind of clicked rapidly within a week,” Reynosa said. Morris was familiar with Reynosa, as Reynosa’s mom is a science teacher at VHS. When the three started playing together, they felt a “chemistry when it came to music.” One day, Cefalu met up with them, and Boland suggested that he played bass with the group. In July of 2018, Morris met Boland, who said that he was currently working on a side project with Reynosa. Noah Boland ‘16, Spencer Cefalu ‘17, Jackson Morris ‘20 and Jackson Reynosa ‘16 are all Ventura High School ( VHS) alumni or students, and they formed the band around six months ago. Noah Boland stands left on guitar, Jackson Reynosa sings an dplays guitar in the middle and Spencer Cefalu stands right on bass. The story of Dudeo Perez Olivia Sanfordĭudeo Perez plays songs off of their new album, Allons’y, for an excited crowd. The volume was ear-splitting, but it was fitting Dudeo Perez produces music that demands to be blasted. The kick drum reverberated through my bones and the bass and guitar enveloped my eardrums.
As the lights dimmed, the crowd whooped and applauded, and the band’s indie pop rock music permeated through the room. Some watched and ate from the back of the bar, while the majority of teens packed themselves tightly together, forming a ring around the makeshift stage. In the short time we talked, the band used words filled with passion and excitement, encapsulating what Dudeo Perez means to them.Īs the boys re-entered the bar and took their positions on stage, teens and adults alike filled the narrow, alley-like venue to the brim. The band was supposed to go on at 7, but when we met minutes before the clock struck 7, they were not concerned in the slightest about time. 27, each member of Dudeo Perez was dressed casually with laid-back smiles plastered on their faces. When we met in the dimly-lit Bombay Bar & Grill before their performance on Jan. So you won’t see Prince, a guitar god with dozens of hard rock tunes in his catalog, on this list, but you will see Michael Jackson, who’d just occasionally team up with Eddie Van Halen or Slash to rock out.By Jocelyn Brossia, Foothill Technology High School Plenty of rockers have become pop stars, from Pat Benatar to Bruce Springsteen, but there are also pop stars who merely flirt with rock sounds from time to time. But since the ‘80s, Top 40 radio has largely favored sleeker tracks with synthesizers, drum machines, and influences from genres like dance music, R&B, and hip-hop, with only occasional bursts of electric guitar and live drums. Rock music has been deeply intertwined with American pop ever since early rockers like Little Richard and Bill Haley started scaling the charts.
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