upright and electric bassist, singer, composer, improviser

Jazz musician, barista, and wanna be hip hop star. 

I wish I was a baller but I’m really just a father. 

Drummer for the Fort Wayne Mad Ants

Guitarist / Composer / Sound Designer / Producer / Instructor at the Sweetwater Academy of Music

My passion for music started with an early love of the electric guitar. I received my B.A. from Ball State University with a Major in Music Technology and a minor in Digital Media. I have since developed a passion for creating sound design and composing film/tv and video game trailer music. My songwriting and composition catalog includes anything from Industrial to Country to Hip-Hop to Orchestral. I am currently an instructor at Sweetwater’s Academy of Music, guitarist for Whoa, Man!, a contributing lead guitar player for the band, CHAOTICA out of Pheonix, AZ and co-writer and producer for singer/songwriter, Eliza Toth.

Fernando Tarango is a professional vocalist, singer/songwriter, actor and producer.  He has produced and recorded music for MTV, VH1, the Oxygen Network and has been featured as an actor on Southern Comfort’s international ad campaign, Lingo Cops and Old Spice Pure Sport's, "Try it Love it Campaign."  As a recording artist Fernando Tarango has been featured as the solo vocalist with the Grammy Award Winning Pacific Boychoir and albums from Gregorian Chant to Gypsy Swing. 

Fernando began his professional music career at the age of 10, traveling the world, performing and recording with the American Boychoir School, in Princeton, NJ. He continued his musical studies at the University of Michigan earning his degree in Vocal Performance. While living in the San Francisco Bay Area, Fernando sang for professional ensembles such as the Pacific Boychoir Academy, Clerestory, American Bach Soloists and the San Francisco Symphony Chorus. Highlights included yearly international tours and premiering the role Mr. Bingley, in Kirke Mechem’s “Pride and Prejudice” in Davies Symphony Hall.

Fernando began his professional music career at the age of 10, traveling the world, performing and recording with the American Boychoir School, in Princeton, NJ. He continued his musical studies at the University of Michigan earning his degree in Vocal Performance. While living in the San Francisco Bay Area, Fernando sang for professional ensembles such as the Pacific Boychoir Academy, Clerestory, American Bach Soloists and the San Francisco Symphony Chorus. Highlights included yearly international tours and premiering the role, Mr. Bingley, in Kirke Mechem’s “Pride and Prejudice” in Davies Symphony Hall.

Fernando Tarango is currently living and working as a musician in his hometown of Fort Wayne, IN where he continues his graduate studies in composition and audio technology at IPFW’s Sweetwater Music Technology program. He is currently composing a ‘one man’ multimedia musical and working on his next recording project as the front man for the Americana JazzRock band, the Wickersham Bros. 

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