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Diana Serra - Vocals
Born: 5/16/86
Diana began noticing her musical inclination at the age of seven. Her initial mentors helped her develop her musical abilities while learning to control her technique and build her skills by listening to Renata Tebaldi and Christina Ludwig, among others. Throughout her early years, she formed part of school choirs and operas, increasing her classical repertoire. At age 15, she auditioned to enter the New World School of Arts, where she received private vocal teachings. She is currently studying music production, sound engineering and music business at the Miami Dade College. Some of her influences involve Schumann, Schubert, Faur, Puccini, Tori Amos, Loreena McKennitt, Joni Mitchell, Lisa Gerrard & Sheila Chandra.
Santiago Dobles - Guitar
Born: 11/17/76
Santiago began playing guitar at the age of 11. As a teenager he studied guitar with Jae Valentine and Robin Stone. At 18 he entered the Berklee School of Music, majoring in composition, film scoring, and guitar. While at Berklee he studied fusion guitar under the guidance of Jon Finn, Mark White, Mashi Hasu, & Bruce Bartlett. Outside of Berklee, he studied guitar with Paul Masvidal (of DEATH and CYNIC), and through correspondence with Derek Taylor (Shrapnel recording artist) & Derryl Gabel. He also studied sound engineering at Miami Dade College. His influences in music begin with his father Gustavo Dobles a symphonic composer, Steve Vai, Allan Holdsworth, Brett Garsed, Paul Gilbert, Nuno Bettencourt, Eddie Van Halen, Ron Thal, Greg Howe, Shawn Lane, CYNIC, PORTAL, TOOL, Jason Becker, Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix, Bjork, Peter Gabriel, Sting, L Shankar, John Mclaughlin, Shakti, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Zakir Hussein, Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, and Stravinsky. He also finds inspiration from Tibetan & Taoist philosophy & mysticism and practices yoga, Qi Gong & Pencak Silat (Indonesian martial arts).
Santiago Teaches Pentjak Silat , Qi Gong, and runs his own recording studio
Alan Goldstein
Born: 11/30/75
Born in Miami, Alan started on piano at 7 years old, ( forced to ) by a very musical household. Alan's late father played sax and piano, and his grandmother was a singer for showtunes and also singing all the jazz standards. She toured the USA, , cruiseships at sea, Holland and the Netherlands as well. Alan switched to guitar as soon as he got into heavy metal music, while seeing the kids in middle school in cover bands galore! Alan was self taught learning Metallica tunes such as "One", and "Master of Puppets" entirely by ear in no time at all. However, Alan could not find a band that needed a guitarist, so he quickly was invited to play bass in a local cover band ( GNR, Metallica, Van Halen songs etc...). It was then noticed the super fast learner, and talented young player had found his instrument and high time he put it to good use! A huge talent show ( 500 people ? ) was a wake up call with what he wanted to pursue , ( the excitement of onstage performance, + playing heavy music!!) after about 16 years now of playing the bass, recording, and touring all of Florida in a few bands ( Madsic, Trash, Aghora, Abstract, The Agency ) he has found himself back in Aghora...
Alan has 1 solo cd, and is on 2 cd EP's by "Madsic", and 1 "ATM Project" cd ( a internet recording band from Holland/Netherlands, who have never met each other in person!) . Alan will also be on the new Aghora cd, dvds, and the new Santiago Dobles cd TBA.
Alan's major influences have been the great finger style and slap players:::
cliff, geddy, marcus, victor, patitucci, stanley, stu, berlin, trujillo, claypool, manring, jaco, sheehan, willis. etc... and is also inspired by holdsworth, corea, weckl, colaiuta, dipiazza, eckhardt, bela, peart, virgil, and more super talents that he could go on for days mentioning here.
Alan started with 4 string basses, then in 2001 made the switch to 5, 6, and 7's...
he plays fretless basses as well since about 1995... he is into jazz-funk, progressive rock, classic rock, reggae, metal, flamenco, and anything else that FUNKEN-GROOVES!!!
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