Music Style Latin/Rock en Espanol

Musical Influences The Beatles, Def Leppard

Similar Artists Mix a little Def Leppard with a bit of Foreigner.

Artist History Carlos lords was born in Cali, Colombia on May 22, 1971.The youngest of four brothers and one sister remembers his love for music came at a very young age. At the age of five, his first influences were Julio Iglesias and Camilo Sesto. Carlos arrived in the states three months after his eighth birthday and immediately developed an interest in piano. He began taking lessons a year later and after two months was expelled from class. Carlos knew he needed direction and a role-model, but his ear for music would not allow him interest in music theory. By the age of twelve, Carlos’ three older brothers started a rock band, which they named The Knights. Although his brothers’ band was already writing songs, it was missing a key instrument, drums. Auditions began in search of a drummer and at twelve years old, Carlos became more of a pain to the band members. To ease some of the tension during auditions and rehearsals, Carlos was asked to sit outside the studio until auditions were over with, this went on for over a year. While the band went on auditioning, hiring and firing drummers, Carlos sat at the bottom of the stairs. After going through rejection after rejection he sat banging on the walls to the beat of the songs, some times for hours. After begging and driving his brothers up the wall Carlos was given a chance, a chance to make a fool out of himself. To get him off their backs his brothers substituted two old songs for two new songs knowing that he had never heard them or sat behind a drum set before, he was being set up to fail the audition. His brothers knew that Carlos could never make the band, because at fourteen he wouldn’t be allowed in the clubs. Needless to say, Carlos had other plans in mind, he knew it was a one way ticket to play with the three brothers he admired and respected so much, his only chance was now in his hands. Then, he was told to sit behind the drum set and simply do or die. In an attempt to crush him to the bone his brothers had the studio engineer record the session to later embarrass him even more so. Even to his surprise, after that night Carlos became a local celebrity. He did as no local drummer had ever done, amazingly well for a first timer/keyboard player. Carlos not only shocked everyone by improvising every stop, hit and roll, but what was more impressive was that he also sang along to the lyrics. Those long nights banging on the walls in frustration really paid off. He got the gig on the spot. Not long after completing the band, The Knights were forced to change the band’s name to something more commercialized, it became S'leaze-21. The club scene did not come easy to the new band of brothers. However, Carlos was too young to be allowed in most clubs and had to be replaced for those shows, no self-respecting musician goes easy with the idea of being temporarily replaced. Although S'leaze-21 encountered many obstacles in their bumpy start, they went on to play some of the most popular clubs in New Jersey. Their popularity grew after playing clubs such as; RealMonte’s in Clifton, the legendary Dirt Club and the Rat Trap Café in Bloomfield, Escapades and Charter Box in Bayonne, the very popular Studio- One in North Newark and of course The Birch Hill/ Sting Ray’s Entertainment Complex in Old Bridge. Some of the most popular local bands to have shared the stage with S'leaze-21 were Nancy Regan MaxiPads, Debris, Black Car, Raze, American Angel and Trixter. The band eventually disintegrated due to mutual differences in music styles and each went their separate way. In 1988 and at the age of 17, Carlos started experimenting in the studio and it was then that he recorded his first single "Why?". When it came to music it was Carlos and his brother Sebastian who were closest and in 1991 Carlos joined Sebastian and long time friend Nikki in a project they called Deflowering Mary. It seemed for a while they had a good thing going but it was not long before Carlos’ music career came to a full stop. In 1995 Carlos learned that his older brother’s desire for playing live will force Sebastian to move to Los Angeles. Sebastian quit the English Rock scene in the East Coast to join forces with the Spanish Rock in the West Coast. Carlos was devastated to learn that his role-model and mentor had left him with only a path to follow. In 1996 and with a project on the works, Carlos decided to continue the project with Nikki and renamed the project SILICONE only to end up with a Spanish Pop/Rock CD three years later and here it is, enjoy. For information about the CD write to: ravage_c@yahoo.com

Group Members Carlos Lords

Instruments All Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Drums and Vocals; Carlos Lords

Albums Carlos Lords-Carlos-2000, Carlos Lords-La Razon-2001

Location Miami, FL - USA

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