Music By Julio C. Sierra - Film Composer (Planetario Medellín-Bancolombia)

Music for Planetarium

Sus Vasquez is a professional female guitarist based in NYC. Whether performing live or in the studio, she’s most known for her ability to adapt to different styles of music and settings.

Performed with Luis Fonsi, artist who’s his smash hit “Despacito” spent 16 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 and earned four Latin GRAMMY Awards, including Song and Record Of The Year.

Performed on the Abraham Inc Europe Tour “Together We Stand” with recognized top high class musicians like Fred Wesley (James Brown), David Krakauer, Socalled among others. 

Played at The Wrong Man off-Broadway musical.

She’s currently the guitarist for the top selling and Grammy winning Latina artist Karol G, where she performs in major festivals, tv and radio shows as well as important venues across Europe, US and South America.

She was the guitarist for the Anuel AA and Karol G on the Culpables Tour 2019 playing sold-out arenas and stadiums across 11 different countries in Central and South America.

In 2019 she also performed in the Billboard Sessions with singer Lolo Zouaï

In 2016, she was one of the Top 5 finalists of the Kiesel Guitar Contest.

Sus is currently featured as an LsL instruments artist and sponsored by Gibson, Dunlop, Elixir, Fractal Audio, Eventide, Analysis Plus, Vertex effects, Walrus Audio and among others.

In a short 3 year spanse beginning in late 1978 and ending in the late summer months of 1981 a small group of privileged people experienced a musical phenomenon named Sha-Mar.  Brennan Roy then an engineering student at RIT and accomplished keyboardist was looking for a band of musicians willing to take on the challenge of participating in musical experimentation.  This eventually developed into a core of musicians comprised of Brennan Roy on Keys, Mattias Rucht on drums and percussion, Scott Garber on bass and Doug Egling on Saxes and flute.

The band had morphed through several configurations from the initial vocal rock band then known as Desidarata, including Tom Heil on vocals and Towny Manful on bass and continued through several other forms of Sha-Mar with Greg Ketchum (percussion), Curt Wolfe (guitar and production), and many others until consistantly performing as a foursome with various guests sitting in to round out the live spontaneous jams.

The original music had been maticulously hand crafted initially by Brennan Roy and his incredible skills as a composer and arranger however once introduced each musician learned how to wear his part like a well tailored suit.

Within 3 short years the band had become hard and fast friends having experienced a phenomenon that would, unbeknownst to them at the time, bond them together for the rest of their lives.

Musically, even when there was no written music, Sha-Mar's "jams" were better described as musical conversations with each member listening for cues from the other and adding to each others thoughts and finishing each other's sentences.  This skill had been developed in a dorm kitchenet in one of the RIT quads, honed and forged during live performances at The Casablanca, Club Calabash, The Other Side of The Tracks, The Pink Hippopotumus, The Record Archive and other clubs local to the then Rochester night scene.

At the hieght of the band's popularity they were recognized by local radio personality Roger McCall (Uncle Rog WCMF) and airtime ensued.  By the middle of '81 members had graduated from RIT and turned their focus to more permanent plans out side of the region and in diverse locations.  Sha-Mar disbanded.

The members remained connected and have never forgotten the watershed experience.  Recently, the fires have been rekindled by a reunion in May of 2011.  At that point commitments were made to not allow time to pass before playing together again regularly.

Stay tuned...  time will tell...  shall we see a resurgence of a phenomena

Music for Planetarium

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