About Luis Villegas
Luis Villegas is a first-generation Mexican-American guitarist born in East Los Angeles and is best known for his debut Spanish guitar CD, Café Ole (Domo) released in 1998 which won him a Grammy Nomination for Best New Age Album of 1999.  Luis has released four other albums of original compositions to critical acclaim.  He has worked with some of the leading artists and musicians in the world in the last 20 years. He has shared the stage with Janet Jackson, Marc Anthony, Joan Sebastian, Jesse Cook and Placido Domingo. He has recorded a duet with classical guitarist Leona Boyd which was nominated for a Juno Award (the Canadian Grammy), and performed for Carmen Elektra and Dave Navarro's televised wedding on MTV.  In 2012 he joined forces with Flamenco Guitarist, Benjamin Woods, to form Heavy Mellow, a group that performs flamenco covers of heavy metal songs and in 2015 was asked to record an album with heavy metal singer, Terry Ilous, featuring spanish guitar covers of rock classics.  Currently Luis is using the pandemic downtime to write and record a new CD entirely by himself in his home studio in Los Angeles.

 

Arleen Hurtado grew up in southern California. Early in life she began playing the drums and trained in ballet, jazz and tap.  As a child she discovered flamenco on a trip to Spain, which appealed to her passion for both dance and percussion.   Arleen pursued her study of flamenco in Seville and Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, New Mexico, New York and California with world-renowned artists.For the last 18 years she has performed throughout the world including several tours in the United States at venues such as Carnegie Hall in New York, Red Rocks in Denver and the Greek Theater in Los Angeles.  Internationally she has toured and performed in United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Spain, Italy, Croatia, China and India.  Arleen has been featured in music videos, commercials, television and print.  Based in Los Angeles, she teaches weekly flamenco dance classes and continues to perform and tour.