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‘Get the Picture’ – Original Music By Multi-Award Winning Songwriter Andre Pessis

Andre Pessis/Endless Frogs Music/ASCAP/Espy Music | Larry Batiste/Pure Delite Music (BMI)/adm.by BMG | Tony Lindsay/(LINDSEED MUSIC) ASCAP

Featuring Rico Nico

Andre Pessis is a multi-award winning songwriter with an illustrious career which includes 16 hit songs, playing on seven #1 albums including Bonnie Raitt’s “Luck Of The Draw” multi-platinum CD that won 3 Grammys, and writing a song on the HBO Movie “Grey Gardens” that won 6 Emmys and 2 Golden Globes. Other notable achievements

Andre has 13 Platinum records, 1 Diamond album (10 Platinum) and 5 ASCAP awards.
He has been recorded by numerous artists including Huey Lewis and The News, MR Big, Tim McGraw, Waylon Jennings, Journey, The Dead, Ratdog, Southern Pacific, Glenn Medeiros, Ann Wilson of Heart, Gregg Rolie, Paul Carrack, Ben E King, The Stylistics, Laura Branigan, Bigbird … and even “Housewife of Beverly Hills” star, Erica Jayne.
His songs are in major motion pictures (including the theme song from Clint Eastwood’s “Pink Cadillac” and a song in “I Love you Phillip Morris”) and numerous TV shows including music for “Sesame Street”, the theme song for the CBS prime time reality show “There Goes the Neighborhood” and the theme song for “Pride Fighting”.
He has 2 songs on Sega Genesis Daytona USA and 10 songs on the latest two Mickey Hart albums.
He wrote a song with Eric Martin recorded by MR Big; all royalties were donated to the Tsunami victims in Japan. The song raised over $300,000 and was voted “Song Of The Year” in 2011.
He has 10 songs on the MR Big CD released October 2014 which entered the Japanese charts at #6.
His hit song “Anyway The Wind Blows” from the Clint Eastwood movie “Pink Cadillac” won a BMI award for over 1,000,000 plays.

Andre was the past president of the San Francisco chapter of The Recording Academy for two years and its governor for more than 11 years. And most recently, Andre created the opening song in the new play “The Heart of Rock ‘n Roll” which broke box office records in San Diego and will open on Broadway in the spring of 2020.

‘Familia’ – Original Music By World Class Artists Cris & Israel Matos

Founded in SF’s Mission district in 2004 by Israel Matos, Manicato has found a way to combine its social and musical influences into a hard-hitting form of intelligent dance music that feeds both body and mind. The word Manicato, derived from the Native People of Puerto Rico known as The Taino, means a bold and valiant person of a good heart. The band Manicato lives up to this Taino ideal with it’s socially conscious lyrics backed by a mixture of Salsa, Timba, Reggae, Hip Hop, and Rock . Featuring one of the only father and son vocal sections in the city, hard hitting horn lines, and a rythm section that will force you to dance, Manicato will have you speaking in one of the oldest languages, the universal language of music, feeding your mind, body, and soul.

Band Members

Israel Matos – Vocals, Guitar, Percussion
Cris ‘Papi Matos’ Matos – Vocals, Percussion
Alan ‘Trombon’ Williams – Trombone
Danny Cao – Trumpet, Vocals
Enrique ‘Qique’ Padilla – Congas
Jason Moen – Keys
Aaron Germain – Bass

The Film Music – SF Bay Musicians

‘Get the Picture’ – Original Music By Multi-Award Winning Songwriter Andre Pessis

‘Familia’ – Original Music By World Class Artists Cris & Israel Matos

Band Members

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