Gustavo César

Personal information
Full name	Gustavo César Veloso
Born	(1980-01-29) January 29, 1980 (age 32) Spain
Height	182 cm
Weight	69 kg
Team information
Current team	Andalucía
Discipline	Road
Role	Luxury Domestique
Rider type	Climber
Professional team(s)
2001–2003 2004 2005–2006 2007–2010 2012–	Carvalhelhos-Boavista Relax Kaiku Karpin-Galicia Andalucía
Major wins
Volta a Catalunya (2008) Vuelta a Espana, 1 stage
Infobox last updated on 9 January 2012

Gustavo César Veloso (born January 29, 1980 in Vilagarcía de Arousa) is a Spanish professional road bicycle racer for UCI Professional Continental team Andalucía.^[1]

Palmarès[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Gustavo César profile at Cycling Archives

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Gustavo Espinoza Roman is a Peruvian politician and a Congressman representing Lambayeque for the 2006-2011 term. Espinoza was elected as a member of the Union for Peru party, but left it after the election to form the Peruvian Democratic Party along with fellow Congress members Carlos Torres Caro and Rocío González.

External links[link]

• Official Congressional Site

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César Millan
Born	César Millán Favela (1969-08-27) August 27, 1969 (age 42) Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico
Residence	Santa Clarita, California, U.S.
Nationality	American
Occupation	Dog psychologist
Known for	Dog Whisperer (TV series)
Spouse	Ilusión Millan (1994-2010; filed for divorce)[1]
Website
CesarsWay.com

Cesar Millan, (born César Millán Favela; August 27, 1969) is a Mexican-born American dog trainer.^[2] A self-taught expert, he is widely known for his television series The Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan, now in its eighth season and broadcast in more than eighty countries worldwide.^[3] Prior to The Dog Whisperer series, Millan focused on rehabilitating especially aggressive dogs^[4] and founded the Dog Psychology Center^[5] in South Los Angeles (2002–2008) — under construction in a new Los Angeles location as of late 2009.^[6]

Millan's first three books, including Cesar's Way, all became New York Times best sellers, have cumulatively sold two million copies in the United States, and are available in 14 other countries.^[6] In 2009, in conjunction with IMG, Millan introduced a monthly magazine also titled Cesar's Way — with The Wall Street Journal reporting at that time that half of American consumers recognized Millan.^[7] With Ilusión Millan, his former wife, he founded the Cesar and Ilusión Millan Foundation — since renamed the Millan Foundation. He is working with Yale University to create a children's curriculum based on his work.^[6]

Millan's most important tool in both his success with dogs and business has sometimes been attributed to a personal sense of balance,^[6] what The New York Times called "a sort of über-balanced mien".^[6]

Personal life[link]

Born in 1969 to Felipe Millán Guillen and María Teresa Favela de Millán in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, Millan grew up working with animals on his grandfather's Sinaloa farm.^[8] Because of his natural way with dogs, he was called el Perrero, "the dog boy."^[8] The family later moved to Mazatlán, and there — at age 13, on their way to his judo competition and standing in front of a large statue — Millan declared to his mother he would one day be the best dog trainer in the world.^[9]

Millan illegally crossed the border into the US when he was 21 years old, spoke no English and knew no one in the USA.^{[8][10][11][12]} He first worked in a dog grooming store, working with the most aggressive dogs — later creating the Pacific Point Canine Academy and developing a following. Jada Pinkett Smith became one of Millan's first clients and supporters — when he was working as a limousine driver^[3] — providing him with an English tutor for a year.^[9][10] Subsequently, Millan created the Dog Psychology Center, a 2-acre (8,100 m²) facility in South Los Angeles—specializing in working with large breed dogs.^[13]

Millan became a legal resident of the U.S. in 2000, became a U.S. citizen in 2009, and lives in Santa Clarita, California. He married Ilusión Wilson Millan in 1994, with whom he had two sons, Andre (b. 1995) and Calvin (b. 2001).

In June 2010, Millan announced his divorce.^[14] His wife, Ilusión Millan, filed for divorce, seeking primary physical custody of their children with visitation for Cesar, as well as spousal support.^[15] The divorce agreement stipulates that Millan pay his ex-wife a single payment of $400,000, a monthly spousal payment of $23,000 and $10,000 for monthly child support,^[16] and that the parties respect specific confidentiality terms.^[16]

[edit] Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan

In 2002, after a profile in the Los Angeles Times, Millan worked with MPH Entertainment, Inc. developing a television pilot for the Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan, a reality television series that follows Millan as he works in the field of dog rehabilitation. The series premiered on September 13, 2004 on the National Geographic Channel and now airs exclusively on the Nat Geo WILD channel. The show would become National Geographic's #1 show during its first season.^[17] The show is also known as Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan or The Dog Whisperer, outside the USA, and is now in its seventh season and broadcast in more than eighty countries worldwide.^[3]

The program demonstrates Cesar Millan's application of his philosophy that healthy, balanced dogs require strong 'pack leadership' from their owners, specifically in the form of exercise, discipline and affection (in that order),^[10] with Millan demonstrating how owners can achieve and maintain a leadership role with their dogs. The program highlights Millan at work rehabilitating dogs, and is not intended as a dog training guide.^[17] Each episode contains repeated warnings that viewers should not try some of the behavior modification techniques at home.^[10]

Millan's book Cesar's Way debuted with the show's second season, becoming a bestseller.^[18] Millan works with a broad spectrum of individuals, including celebrities Oprah Winfrey, Nicolas Cage, Will Smith, and Vin Diesel.^[13]

Principles[link]

Millan's work focuses on handling a dog with what he calls "calm-assertive energy", which ought to transfer from the owner to the dog.^[6] He approaches dog behavior by teaching dog owners to understand the natural needs and responses of a dog, to understand that dogs are pack animals, to assist owners in establishing their role as calm-assertive pack leaders.^[10]

Millan prioritizes fulfilling and balancing a dog's primary needs:^[10] exercise, discipline and affection—in that order.^[19] In other words, it is the owner's responsibility to fulfill the dog's energy level through challenging exercise; to provide clearly communicated rules, boundaries and limitations^[20] for the dog's behavior; and to give the dog affection at the right time. Millan encourages owners to give affection, but to give affection when the dog is in a balanced state of mind, not when the dog is fearful, anxious, avoidant or excited — when the affection itself can reinforce imbalance. According to Millan, a common pitfall for dog owners is to give a great deal of affection with very little discipline and even less exercise.^[20]

Millan emphasizes the importance of walking a dog, not only for the dog's exercise, but for the owner and dog to bond—with the dog ultimately recognizing the owner as its leader. He also encourages owners to watch their dog for subtle cues in the dog's posture, movement and facial expression—to eliminate poor behavior before it arises or escalates. And he encourages owners to understand the profound effect their own attitudes, internal emotions and physical postures have on a dog's behavior, counseling owners to hold strong posture (i.e. shoulders high and chest forward) and to project energy that is calm-assertive.^[8][21]

Millan also stresses that owners identify their dog in a hierarchy of three levels:

• Firstly and most importantly, as a dog with canine rather than human needs.
• Secondly, as a particular breed of dog — for example, a Boxer-Rottweiler mix — with a breed-specific energy level and behavioral instinct.^[22]
• Thirdly, as their individual dog, e.g., "Bella".

Millan is widely known for using vocal marks, e.g., his tsch or tsst^[9] sounds, while working with a dog (rather than words, especially the dog's name), and he encourages owners to create their own unique sound that works for them.^[21]

Millan stresses that when meeting a new dog, making eye contact, speaking, and touching it are to be avoided, in favor of letting the dog approach on its own terms.^[10]

Daddy[link]

One of Millan's many dogs, Daddy, was an American Pit Bull Terrier integral to Millan's work and his television series, Dog Whisperer.^[23] Daddy was known for his calm temperament, tolerance for smaller dogs and capacity for empathy.^[24] Prior to Daddy's death in February 2010 at age 16,^[25] Millan selected another pit bull puppy, Junior, as Daddy's protégé — to apprentice with Daddy and learn his temperament.

Philanthropy[link]

In 2007, Cesar and Ilusión Millan created the Cesar and Ilusión Millan Foundation: "a national, non-profit foundation designed to aid and support the rescue, rehabilitation and placement of abused and abandoned dogs."^[26] Together they have also founded the Shelter Stars program to provide education materials to new dog adopters,^[6] The foundation has since been renamed the Millan Foundation.

Millan has supported other projects, including K-9 Connection, for at-risk teens;^[27] Pups on Parole, a program for inmates;^[28] the Pets911 project,^[29] which works to "effect social change in this country by providing a free public service that will one day ensure an environment where all animals are valued companions and have lifetime, loving homes.";^[30] and the It Gets Better project supporting at-risk LGBT youth.^[31] His 2006 seminar tour donated a portion of the proceeds to the hosting rescue groups.

Media and guest appearances[link]

Millan has been featured twice on The Oprah Winfrey Show,^[32][33] as well as on ABC World News Tonight (2002), CBS-TV (2001), Channel 7 News (May 2005), CNN (April 2006), Creative Arts Emmys 2006 (August 2006), Entertainment Insider (December 2004), Good Day Live (February 2005), Good Morning America With Diane Sawyer (September 2004), KTLA-TV (2002), Last Call with Carson Daly (November 2006), Martha Stewart Show (April 2006), Megan Mullally Show (November 2006), Nightline (July 2006), NBC-TV (2001), Today Show (April 2006), Tonight Show With Jay Leno (February 2005), The View (July 2006), WUSA-TV 9 News (April 2006), season 4 of the Emmy Award winning reality show Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List.

Millan guest-starred as himself in Ghost Whisperer in Season 2, Episode 18, "Children of Ghost". In the episode, Melinda (Jennifer Love Hewitt) seeks out Millan for advice on how to help "Homer", Ghost Whisperer's Ghost Dog (from Season 1), cross over into the light.

Millan was portrayed in a tenth-season episode of the Comedy Central animated series South Park (entitled "Tsst") that aired on May 3, 2006. In the episode, Millan is hired to train not a dog, but Eric Cartman, to behave after popular "nannies" (see Nanny 911, Super Nanny) fail to rein in his behavior.

Millan played himself in "The Finger in the Nest", the September 17, 2008, episode of Bones, helping the lead characters to determine if a location was used for dogfighting.

Millan played himself in Beethoven's Big Break which premiered in cinemas on December 30, 2008.

Millan played himself in The Back-Up Plan, which was released April 23, 2010 in theaters.

Millan made a guest appearance as a judge on Episode #3 of the 10th season of The Apprentice.

Millan made a guest appearance on the April 27, 2011 episode of "Jeopardy".^[34]

Legal issues[link]

In 2006, Millan's original publicists, Makeda Smith and Foster Corder, sued Millan, alleging copyright infringement, breach of contract and breach of confidential relationship,^[35] later settling out of court.^{[dead link][36]} Also in 2006, Floyd Suarez sued Millan, alleging that his dog had been injured while on a treadmill at the Dog Psychology Center,^[37] and also eventually settled out of court.^{[dead link][38]}

Criticism[link]

Also in 2006, Jean Donaldson, the San Francisco SPCA director of The Academy for Dog Trainers, criticized Millan for physically confronting aggressive dogs and using choke chains for fearful dogs. This criticism was published by the American Humane Association, which asked National Geographic to stop airing Dog Whisperer.^[39]

In November 2009, Millan invited the American Humane Association to the set of Dog Whisperer, at which time, according to Millan, "they changed their state of mind about what is cruel".^[40] The association announced in February 2010 that despite "sharp differences of view in the past" and some lingering areas of disagreement, they shared many areas of interest with Millan.^[41] They also invited him that month to participate in a symposium on humane dog training "to discuss issues of concern".^[42]

Dr. Ian Dunbar and dog behaviorist Jean Donaldson collaborated on a 2007 DVD titled "Fighting Dominance in a Dog Whispering World" that addresses their concerns with Cesar Millan and similar dominance-based theories of training and behavior modification.^[43]

The American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior has also expressed their concerns over the resurgence of "dominance theory"-based training methods that fixate inappropriately on pack leadership. They cite behaviorist Dr. Sophia Yin and Knowles/Saxberg, saying "In our relationship with our pets, priority access to resources is not the major concern. The majority of behaviors owners want to modify, such as excessive vocalization, unruly greetings, and failure to come when called, are not related to valued resources and may not even involve aggression. Rather, these behaviors occur because they have been inadvertently rewarded and because alternate appropriate behaviors have not been trained instead. Consequently, what owners really want is not to gain dominance, but to obtain the ability to influence their pets to perform behaviors willingly. ... The AVSAB recommends that veterinarians not refer clients to trainers or behavior consultants who coach and advocate dominance hierarchy theory and the subsequent confrontational training that follows from it."^[44]

Punishment and attempts at dominating dogs to correct behavioral issues can potentially worsen the problem, AVSAB further notes: "Even in the relatively few cases where aggression is related to rank, applying animal social theory and mimicking how animals would respond can pose a problem. First, it can cause one to use punishment, which may suppress aggression without addressing the underlying cause. Because fear and anxiety are common causes of aggression and other behavior problems, including those that mimic resource guarding, the use of punishment can directly exacerbate the problem by increasing the animal’s fear or anxiety."^[44]

Bibliographies and DVDs[link]

Books:

• Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems. New York: Three Rivers Press. March 2007. ISBN 978-0-307-33797-9. 
• Be the Pack Leader: Use Cesar's Way to Transform Your Dog . . . and Your Life. New York: Three Rivers Press. March 2007. ISBN 978-0-307-38167-5. 
• A Member of the Family: Cesar Millan's Guide to a Lifetime of Fulfillment with Your Dog. New York: Three Rivers Press. March 2008. ISBN 978-0-307-40891-4. 
• How to Raise the Perfect Dog: Through Puppyhood and Beyond. New York: Three Rivers Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-307-46129-2. 
• Cesar's Rules: Your Way to Train a Well-Behaved Dog. New York: Crown Archetype. 2010. ISBN 978-0-307-71686-6. 

DVDs:

Awards[link]

• 2005, the Humane Society of the United States Genesis Award Committee presented Millan with a Special Commendation for his work in rehabilitating animals.
• 2007, Millan was awarded the Michael Landon Award for Inspiration to Youth Through Television. Young Artists Awards.org
• 2006, 2007 and 2009, Millan's TV show, Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan, was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Reality Program.
• 2006, Millan and his wife, Ilusión, were awarded honorary membership of the International Association of Canine Professionals (IACP).^[45]
• 2008, The Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan won the award for TV Best Variety or Reality Show at the 23rd Annual Imagine Awards.
• 2008, Cesar Millan was recognized as a "Treasure of Los Angeles" for his contributions to the City of Los Angeles.^[46]
• 2010, Millan's TV show, Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan, won the People's Choice Award for Favorite Animal Show.^[47]

References[link]

• Biography Today, Vol. 15 (3): pp. 73–83
• Millan, Cesar and Peltier, Melissa Jo (2006), Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems, Harmony Books, New York, ISBN 0-307-33733-2.
• Millan, Cesar and Peltier, Melissa Jo (2007), Be the Pack Leader, Harmony Books, New York, ISBN

External links[link]

• Official website
• The Millan Foundation
• The Dog Whisperer at NationalGeographic.com
• Cesar Millan Kids
• What the Dog Saw, Malcom Gladwell, May 22, 2006
• Coming Back to the Pack, Devin Gordon, October 9, 2007
• Whispering to Rottweilers, and to C.E.O.’s , Amy Wallace, October 10, 2009
• Cesar Millan talks about UK tour, BBC, 27 November 2009
• "The Dog Whisperer Should Just Shut Up" Esquire (magazine)
• The Dog Whisperer is really the People Whisperer, CBS, October 3, 2010

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Gustavo Santaolalla
Gustavo Santaolalla, March 9, 2007
Background information
Birth name	Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla
Also known as	Moviola
Born	(1951-08-19) 19 August 1951 (age 60) El Palomar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Genres	Latin rock, Electrotango, movie soundtracks
Occupations	Musician, film composer, producer
Instruments	Guitar, charango, singing, piano, bass
Years active	1967–present
Associated acts	Bajofondo

Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla (born 19 August 1951) is an Argentine musician, film composer and producer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Original Score in two consecutive years, for Brokeback Mountain in 2005 and Babel in 2006.

Life and career[link]

Santaolalla was born in El Palomar, Argentina.^[1] His professional music career began in 1967, when he co-founded the group Arco Iris, an Argentine band that pioneered the fusion of rock and Latin American folk as part of 'rock nacional'. The band adopted the lifestyle of a yogic commune guided by former model Danais Wynnycka (known as Dana) and her partner, musician Ara Tokatlian. The band had a few hits, such as Mañanas Campestres ("Country Mornings"), and made inroads into different forms of expression (notably a ballet piece for Oscar Aráiz), but Santaolalla felt constricted by the strict requirements of Dana's teachings, which prohibited meat, alcohol and drugs. He left the group in 1975.

A year later, he assembled Soluna, in which he played alongside teenage pianist and singer Alejandro Lerner and his then-girlfriend Monica Campins. Together they recorded just one album (Energía Natural, 1977). Santaolalla left for Los Angeles, where he adopted a rock and roll sound and made the rounds with his band Wet Picnic, together with ex-Crucis member Anibal Kerpel. He briefly returned to Argentina in 1981, to produce Leon Gieco's Pensar en Nada and record his first solo album.

As a solo artist, he has recorded three albums. His first self-titled album, Santaolalla (1981), broke new ground by incorporating the "eighties" sound into rock in Argentina for the first time. He was joined by Lerner and the Willy Iturry-Alfredo Toth rhythm section, who were two-thirds of the band GIT. His second album, titled Gas, was released in 1995. His most recent solo album, titled Ronroco (1998), contained several tracks with the characteristic sound of the charango, a folk string instrument, that poured into what constituted his next significant endeavor: music for movies. Ronroco also contains his (nearly)-solo piece for charango Iguazu, which has been used in The Insider by Michael Mann, Collateral also by Michael Mann, Babel by Alejandro González Iñárritu, a 2007 Vodafone TV commercial, as well as the HBO TV series Deadwood. It also contains the track De Ushuaia a La Quiaca used by Walter Salles in his The Motorcycle Diaries.

Santaolalla aided the development of rock en español by acting as producer for Mexican acts ((Neón)), Maldita Vecindad, Fobia, Molotov, Café Tacuba, Julieta Venegas, the Colombian singer Juanes, Chilean rock trio Los Prisioneros, Argentine rock bands Divididos and Bersuit Vergarabat and León Gieco's "De Ushuaia a La Quiaca" (1 and 2), among many others.

Santaolalla transferred his efforts to film soundtracks in the late 1990s, producing albums for the films Amores Perros, 21 Grams and The Motorcycle Diaries. Currently based in California where he first moved in 1978, one of his more recent contributions has been to the instrumental music for the soundtrack to the 2005 Ang Lee film, Brokeback Mountain, from which "A Love That Will Never Grow Old" won the 2006 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. Santaolalla has received a 2006 Academy Award for Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score) for Brokeback Mountain. In 2007, he received his second Academy Award for the film score to Babel, beating out such composers as Thomas Newman, Alexandre Desplat, and Javier Navarrete. Gustavo dedicated the award to his father and to his country Argentina.

In addition to his film work, Santaolalla has acted as the producer of Gaby Kerpel's Carnabailito and co-produced the Kronos Quartet's Nuevo, an album which renders homage to the rich musical heritage of Mexico. He has also been part of the resurgent neo-tango movement, as prime mover behind the Bajofondo Tango Club collective. He is also mentioned as the co-producer of Calle 13's song "Tango del Pecado", from their upcoming album Residente o Visitante. In 2005 he received the Platinum Konex Award as best Argentine artistic producer of the 1995-2005 decade.

In 2008, Santaolalla composed the soundtrack for the Louis Vuitton film "Where will life take you?" directed by Bruno Aveillan, as part of the "Journeys" Campaign.

Recently, Santaolalla has recorded two songs on "All You Need Is Me", a single by British singer Morrissey. The tracks, "Children In Pieces" and "My Dearest Love" were recorded in Los Angeles with producer Jerry Finn.

Recently, he directed music for Aamir Khan's latest movie Dhobi Ghat, which was released on January 21, 2011.

Santaolalla has also collaborated with Argentine Composer Osvaldo Golijov on several projects commissioned by soprano Dawn Upshaw. These include the opera, Ainadamar, based on the murder of Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, and Ayre, a collection of folk songs, in which Santaolalla plays with a group that calls itself The Andalucian Dogs.

Among his more recent projects he has scored the upcoming film On the Road, produced by Francis Ford Coppola and directed by Walter Salles. He has also confirmed his involvement on the survival horror video game The Last of Us, Santaolalla's first experience in the video game industry.

Santaolalla currently lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife for over twenty-three years Alejandra Palacios and children Luna (b. 1995) and Don Juan Nahuel (b. 1999). His eldest daughter Ana (b. 1980) is from his previous relationship with Monica Campins.

Filmography[link]

• She Dances Alone (1981)
• Amores perros (2000)
• The Insider (1999) - features his song, "Iguazu".
• 21 Grams (2003)
• Salinas grandes (2004) (TV)
• The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) (The Motorcycle Diaries (soundtrack))
• North Country (2005) (see also North Country (soundtrack))
• Yes (2005) - features his song, "Iguazu".
• Brokeback Mountain (2005) Academy Award for Original Music Score (see also Brokeback Mountain (soundtrack))
• Fast Food Nation (2006) - features his song "Iguazu".
• Babel (2006) Academy Award for Original Music Score (see also Babel (soundtrack))
• Into the Wild (2007) - features his song "Picking Berries".
• I Come With The Rain (2009)
• The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet's Struggle for Freedom (2009)
• Nanga Parbat (2010)
• Biutiful (2010)
• Dhobi Ghaat (2010)
• On the Road (2012)
• The Last of Us (2012/2013) - video game

Awards and nominations[link]

Awards[link]

• Academy Awards:
  • 2005: Best Original Score – Brokeback Mountain
  • 2006: Best Original Score – Babel

• BAFTA Awards:
  • 2004: Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music – The Motorcycle Diaries
  • 2006: Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music – Babel

• BMI:
  • On June 13, 2008, Gustavo Santaolalla was honored as a BMI Icon at the 15th annual BMI Latin Awards. The BMI Icon award is bestowed on creators who have had a “unique and indelible influence on generations of music makers.”^[2]

• Golden Globe Awards:
  • 2005: Best Original Song – "A Love That Will Never Grow Old" from Brokeback Mountain

• Grammy Awards:
  • 2004: Best Latin Rock/Alternative Album – Cuatro Caminos (producer)
  • 2009: Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album: La Vida... Es un Ratico (producer)

• Latin Grammy Awards:
  • 2000: Best Rock Album – Revés/Yo Soy (producer)
  • 2001: Best Rock Solo Vocal Album – Fíjate Bien (producer)
  • 2003: Record of the Year – "Es Por Ti" (producer)
  • 2003: Album of the Year – Un Día Normal (producer)
  • 2003: Best Pop Instrumental Album – Bajofondo Tango Club (producer)
  • 2004: Best Alternative Music Album – Cuatro Caminos (producer)
  • 2005: Best Rock Solo Vocal Album – Mi Sangre (producer)
  • 2005: Producer of the Year
    • A Contraluz by La Vela Puerca
    • Bajofondo Tango Club Presenta A: Supervielle by Supervielle
    • Celador De Sueños by Orozco and Barrientos
    • Cristobal Repetto by Cristobal Repetto
    • Guau! by Arbol
    • Mi Sangre by Juanes
    • The Motorcycle Diaries: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
    • 13 by Javier García
  • 2006: Best Tango Album – Café De Los Maestros (producer)
  • 2008: Record of the Year: "Me Enamora" (producer)
  • 2008: Album of the Year: La Vida... Es un Ratico (producer)
  • 2008: Best Male Pop Vocal Album: La Vida... Es un Ratico (producer)

Nominations[link]

• BAFTA Awards:
  • 2005: Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music – Brokeback Mountain

• Golden Globe Awards:
  • 2005: Best Original Score – Brokeback Mountain
  • 2006: Best Original Score – Babel

• Grammy Awards:
  • 2007: Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media – Brokeback Mountain: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (producer)
  • 2008: Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media – Babel: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (composer)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Gustavo Santaolalla at the Internet Movie Database
• Gustavo Santaolalla at exclaim
• Myspace Page
• Bio at www.zimbio.com
• Interviews at NPR
• Tangled up in Tango: Gustavo Santaolalla's Bajofondo

Joe Satriani
Satriani live in New York in 2010
Background information
Birth name	Joseph Satriani
Also known as	Satch
Born	(1956-07-15) July 15, 1956 (age 55) Westbury, New York, United States
Genres	Rock, instrumental rock, hard rock, blues, heavy metal
Occupations	Musician, songwriter, producer, guitar instructor
Instruments	Guitar, bass, keyboards, vocals, harmonica, banjo, harp
Years active	1970–present
Labels	Sony, Epic, Relativity
Associated acts	Alice Cooper, Mick Jagger, Deep Purple, Steve Vai, G3, Sammy Hagar, Chickenfoot, Jason Becker, Greg Kihn Band
Website	Official website
Notable instruments
Ibanez Joe Satriani Signature model

Joseph "Joe" Satriani (born July 15, 1956) is an American instrumental rock guitarist of Italian origin, multi-instrumentalist and multiple Grammy Award nominee. Early in his career, Satriani worked as a guitar instructor, and some of his former students have achieved fame such as Steve Vai, Larry LaLonde, Rick Hunolt, Kirk Hammett, Andy Timmons, Charlie Hunter, Kevin Cadogan and Alex Skolnick. Satriani has been a driving force in music credited to other musicians throughout his career, as a founder of the G3 tour, as well as performing in various positions with other musicians.

In 1988, Satriani was recruited by Mick Jagger as lead guitarist for Jagger's first solo tour.^[1] In 1994, Satriani was the lead guitarist for Deep Purple.^[2] Satriani worked with a range of guitarists, including Steve Vai, John Petrucci, Eric Johnson, Larry LaLonde, Yngwie Malmsteen, Brian May, Patrick Rondat, Andy Timmons, Paul Gilbert, Adrian Legg, and Robert Fripp through the annual G3 Jam Concerts.^[3] He is currently the lead guitarist for the supergroup Chickenfoot. Since 1988, Satriani has been using his own signature guitar, the Ibanez JS Series, which is sold in music stores worldwide.

Biography[link]

Early life[link]

Satriani was born in Westbury, New York. He was inspired to play guitar at age 14, after hearing of the death of Jimi Hendrix.^[4] He has been said to have heard the news during a football training session, where he confronted his coach and announced that he was quitting to become a guitarist.^[5] In 1974, Satriani studied music with jazz guitarist Billy Bauer and with reclusive jazz pianist Lennie Tristano. The technically demanding Tristano greatly influenced Satriani's playing. Satriani began teaching guitar, with his most notable student at the time being fellow Long Island native Steve Vai. While he was teaching Vai, he was attending Five Towns College for studies in music.

In 1978, Satriani moved to Berkeley, California to pursue a music career. Soon after arriving in California, he resumed teaching. His students included Steve Vai, Kirk Hammett of Metallica, David Bryson of Counting Crows, Kevin Cadogan from Third Eye Blind, Larry LaLonde of Primus / Possessed, Alex Skolnick of Testament, Rick Hunolt (ex-Exodus), Phil Kettner of Lääz Rockit, Geoff Tyson of T-Ride, Charlie Hunter and David Turin.

Music career[link]

Satriani started playing in a San Francisco-based band called the Squares,^[6] where he continued to network and make musical connections (Squares sound man John Cuniberti co-produced his second album). He was invited to join the Greg Kihn Band, who were on the downside of their career, but whose generosity helped Satriani pay off the overwhelming credit card debt from recording his first album.^[7] When his friend and former student Steve Vai gained fame playing with David Lee Roth in 1986, Vai raved about Satriani in several interviews with guitar magazines, including Guitar World magazine.

In 1987, Satriani's second album Surfing with the Alien produced radio hits and was the first all-instrumental release to chart so highly in many years. In 1988 Satriani helped produce the EP The Eyes of Horror for the death metal band Possessed. In 1989, Satriani released the album Flying in a Blue Dream. It was said to be inspired by the death of his father, who died in 1989 during the recording of the album. "One Big Rush" was featured on the soundtrack to the Cameron Crowe movie Say Anything.... "The Forgotten Part II" was featured on a Labatt Blue commercial in Canada in 1993. "Can't Slow Down" featured in a car-chase sequence in the Don Johnson starring show Nash Bridges.

Joe Satriani also sang backing vocals on the self titled Crowded House album. Satriani was a friend of Michel Froom. Neil Finn of Crowded House confirms this in an interview with FlixelPix photographer David Cleland http://www.flixelpix.com/blog/archive-neil-finn-interview/

In 1992, Satriani released The Extremist, his most critically acclaimed and commercially successful album to date. Radio stations across the country picked up "Summer Song," which got a major boost when Sony used it in a major commercial campaign for their Discman portable CD players.^[8] "Cryin'," "Friends," and the title track were regional hits on radio. In late 1993, Satriani joined Deep Purple as a temporary replacement for departed guitarist Ritchie Blackmore during the band's Japanese tour. The concerts were a success, and Satriani was asked to join the band permanently but he declined, having just signed a multi-album solo deal with Sony, and Steve Morse took the guitarist slot in Deep Purple.^[9]

In 1996, Satriani founded the G3, a concert tour intended to feature a trio of guitarists. The original lineup featured Satriani, Vai and Eric Johnson. The G3 tour has continued periodically since its inaugural version, with Satriani the only permanent member. Other guitarists who have performed in G3 include among others: Yngwie Malmsteen, John Petrucci, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Robert Fripp, Andy Timmons, Uli Jon Roth, Michael Schenker, Adrian Legg, Paul Gilbert, and Steve Lukather. In 1998 Satriani recorded and released Crystal Planet, which went back to a sound reminiscent of his late '80s work. Planet was followed up with Engines of Creation, one of his more experimental works featuring the electronica genre. A pair of shows at the Fillmore in San Francisco were recorded in December 2000 and released as Live in San Francisco, a two-disc live album and DVD.

2000s and future[link]

Satriani playing in Chile, 2003.

Satriani regularly recorded and released evolving music, including Strange Beautiful Music in 2002 and Is There Love in Space? in 2004. In May 2005, Satriani toured India for the first time, playing concerts in Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai. In 2006, Satriani recorded and released Super Colossal and Satriani Live!, another two-disc live album and DVD recorded May 3, 2006 at the Grove in Anaheim, CA. In 2006, Satriani signed on as an official supporter of Little Kids Rock, a non-profit organization that provides free musical instruments and instruction to children in underserved public schools throughout the U.S.A. Satriani has personally delivered instruments to children in the program through a charity raffle for the organization and, like Steve Vai, sits on its board of directors as an honorary member.

On August 7, 2007 Epic/Legacy Recordings re-released Surfing with the Alien to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its release. This was a two-disc set that includes a remastered album and a DVD of a never-before-seen live show filmed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1988.^[10] Satriani's next album Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock, was released on April 1, 2008.^[11] Satriani released a live DVD recording of a concert in Paris titled Live In Paris: I Just Wanna Rock and a companion 2 CD set on February 2, 2010.^[12] In March 2010 Satriani participated with other guitarists in the Experience Hendrix Tribute Tour, performing music written and inspired by Jimi Hendrix.^[13][14]

Joe Satriani with Stu Hamm in Rijnhal, Arnhem, 2008.

On 29 May 2008 it was revealed that Satriani was involved in a new hard rock band called Chickenfoot with former Van Halen members Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony, and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith. The band features Hagar on vocals, Satriani on guitar, Anthony on bass and Smith on drums.^[15] Their debut album was released on 5 June 2009.^[16] The first single and video released was the track "Oh Yeah," which was played on the Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien on 5 June 2009. Satriani received a co-writing credit on all the songs on the band's debut album.^[17] Broken Records magazine asked Satriani about his new band, and he enthusiastically mentioned that "it was great fun" and it gives him a "kick in the music bone" to be playing with such great talent. He said it felt quite natural to step back and play more rhythm guitar than solo guitar. Chickenfoot's second album was titled III, and was released on 27 September 2011. Its first single was the track 'Bigfoot'. On its first week of release, it reached a chart position of #9.

In April, Satriani and Chickenfoot voiced themselves in an episode of the animated television series Aqua Teen Hunger Force. In May 2010, Satriani announced he was about to enter the studio to record a solo album, and dates were released for an autumn tour. He also said that demos had been recorded for a second Chickenfoot album. In May 2010, Satriani joined Sound Strike, a movement led by Rage Against the Machine singer Zack de la Rocha protesting Arizona SB1070.^[18][19] As a result, Satriani refuses to perform live in Arizona. Satriani released his 13th studio album Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards, on October 5, 2010.^[20]

On December 4, 2008 Satriani filed a copyright infringement suit against Coldplay in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Satriani's suit claims that the Coldplay song "Viva la Vida" includes "substantial original portions" of the Satriani song "If I Could Fly" from his 2004 album, Is There Love in Space?. The Coldplay song in question received two Grammy Awards for "Song of the Year."^[21] Coldplay denied the allegation.^[22][23][24] An unspecified settlement was reached between the parties.^[25]

Satriani released the DVD/Blu-ray of his 3D concert film Satchurated: Live in Montreal on April 24th 2012 after its limited showing in theaters. The film was shot in December 2010 in Montreal and was directed by award-winning filmmakers François and Pierre Lamoureux. ^[26] Satchurated is the first Blu-ray concert film available in 3D with Dolby TrueHD 7.1.

Other work[link]

Satriani is credited on many other albums, including guitar duties on shock-rocker Alice Cooper's 1991 album Hey Stoopid, Spinal Tap's 1992 album Break Like the Wind, Blue Öyster Cult's 1988 album Imaginos, band members Stu Hamm and Gregg Bissonette's solo albums. He was credited with singing background vocals on the 1986 debut album by Crowded House. In 2003, he played lead guitar on The Yardbirds's release Birdland. In 2006, he made appearances on tracks for Deep Purple vocalist Ian Gillan's solo CD/DVD dual disc Gillan's Inn.

On Dream Theater's 2007 album Systematic Chaos, Satriani contributed spoken lyrics to the song "Repentance." Satriani contributed a guitar solo to Jordan Rudess' 2004 solo release Rhythm of Time. He composed much of the soundtrack for the racing video game NASCAR 06: Total Team Control and contributed to Sega Rally Championship. He has in feature films, including 2006 Christopher Guest film For Your Consideration as the guitarist in the band that played for the late-night show.^[27] Other films include Moneyball in which he appears as himself playing Star Spangled Banner.

Satriani in 2005

Style and influence[link]

Satriani is considered to be a technically proficient guitarist,^[28] and has been referred to as a guitar virtuoso.^[29][30] Satriani has mastered all performance techniques on electric guitar, including legato, two-handed tapping and arpeggio tapping, volume swells, harmonics and extreme whammy bar effects. During fast passages, Satriani favors a legato technique (achieved primarily through hammer-ons and pull-offs) that yields smooth and flowing runs. He is also adept at other speed-related techniques such as rapid alternate picking and sweep picking. Satriani was influenced by blues-rock guitar icons such as Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Ritchie Blackmore and Jeff Beck,^[2][31] as well as jazz fusion guitarist Allan Holdsworth.^[32] Satriani created his own recognizable style and is an influential guitarist.^[33] Satriani has received 15 Grammy nominations^[34] and has sold over 10 million albums worldwide.^[35]

Equipment[link]

Satriani has endorsed Ibanez's JS Series guitars, and Peavey's JSX amplifier. Both lines were designed specifically as signature products for Satriani. The Ibanez JS1 (the original JS model) was based on, and replaced, the Ibanez 540 Radius model that Satriani first endorsed. Many of his guitars are made by Ibanez, including the JS1000, and JS1200. These guitars typically feature the DiMarzio PAF Pro (which he used up until 1993 in both the neck and bridge positions), the DiMarzio Fred (which he used in the bridge position from 1993 to 2005), and the Mo' Joe and the Paf Joe (which he uses in the bridge and neck positions, respectively, from 2005 to present day).

The JS line of guitars is his signature line with the JS1000, JS1200, JS2400, JSBDG, and JS20th using Ibanez's original Edge double locking tremolo bridge. The JS100 and JS120s both use Ibanez's Edge 3 tremolo bridge. The JS1600 is a fixed bridge guitar with no tremolo system. The guitar he was most associated with during the 90s was a chrome-finished guitar nicknamed "Chrome Boy." This instrument can be seen on the Live in San Francisco DVD. However, the guitar used for most of the concert was in fact a lookalike nicknamed "Pearly," which featured Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates pickups.

Satriani uses a number of other JS models such as the JS double neck model, JS700 (primary axe on the self-titled CD and seen on the 1995 tour "Joe Satriani," which features a fixed bridge, P-90 pickups, and a matching mahogany body and neck), JS6/JS6000 (natural body), JS1 (the original JS model), JS2000 (fixed bridge model), a variety of JS100s, JS1000s and JS1200s with custom paint work, and a large amount of prototype JSs. All double locking bridges have been the original Edge tremolo, not the newer models, which point to a more custom guitar than the "off the shelf" models. Joe played a red 7-string JS model, seen in the "G3 Live in Tokyo" DVD from 2005. He also has a prototype 24-fret version of the JS—now called the JS-2400—which he has used with Chickenfoot. As of late he has used other prototypes featuring a Sustainer or a JS model with three single coil-sized humbucker pickups.

Satriani's guitars are usually equipped with his signature DiMarzio humbucker pickups, Mo' Joe and PAF Joe, although his 24-fret JS model features a Pro Track single coil-sized, humbucker pickup in the neck position. Some of his guitars are still equipped with the pickup models he favored in the past, the DiMarzio FRED and PAF Pro pickups. Satriani has used a wide variety of guitar amps, using Marshall for his main amplifier (notably the limited edition blue coloured 6100 LM model) up until 2001, and his Peavey signature series amps, the Peavey JSX, thereafter.

Satriani in New York, 2010.

The JSX began life as a prototype Peavey XXX and developed into the Joe Satriani signature Peavey model. However he still used distortion pedals with the clean channel rather than the built in od channels. Satriani has used other amplifiers over the years in the studio, such as the Peavey 5150 (used to record the song 'Crystal Planet'), Cornford, and the Mesa/Boogie Mark IIC+ (used to record the song 'Flying in a Blue Dream'), amongst others. He has recently switched to the Marshall JVM series, having used a modified JVM 410H in his Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards tour in 2010 and with Chickenfoot in 2010 and 2011.

These modified JVM Marshall amps were prototypes for a signature amp which was scheduled for release in 2011. The reverb has been replaced by noise gates which cancel any lag when switching channels. The clean channel has been replaced by the clean channel of a 6100 LM model which he likes as an option to use distortion pedals with. The orange od channel and the modern red od channel have been better matched with each other as he still claims to prefer the organic od channels of the JVM amp rather than pedals. The red od channel has been modified to be based more on beefy rock than a nu-metal sound. The fx-loop has been simplified to be serial only.

His effects pedals include the Vox wah, Dunlop Cry Baby wah, RMC Wizard Wah, DigiTech Whammy, BK Butler Tube Driver, BOSS DS-1, BOSS CH-1, BOSS CE-2, BOSS DD-2 and a standard BOSS DD-3 (used together to emulate reverb effects), BOSS BF-3, BOSS OC-2, Barber Burn Drive Unit, Fulltone Deja Vibe, Fulltone Ultimate Octave, and Electro-Harmonix POG (Polyphonic Octave Generator), the latter being featured prominently on the title cut to his 2006 Super Colossal. Satriani has partnered with Planet Waves to create a signature line of guitar picks and guitar straps featuring his sketch art.

Although Satriani endorses the JSX, he has used many amps in the studio when recording, including the Peavey Classic. He used Marshall heads and cabinets, including live, prior to his Peavey endorsement. Recently Satriani used the JSX head through a Palmer Speaker Simulator. He has released a Class-A 5-watt tube amp called the "Mini Colossal." Satriani has been using a Marshall JVM410 head in live gigs since 2009.^[36][37] He is currently working with Vox on his own line of signature effects pedals designed to deliver Satriani's trademark tone plus a wide range of new sounds for guitarists of all playing styles and ability levels. The first being a signature distortion pedal titled the "Satchurator," and the "Time Machine," which will be a delay pedal, with more to follow, including a wah pedal called the "Big Bad Wah."^[38] On March 3, 2010 a new pedal was announced on Satriani's website regarding the new Vox overdrive pedal called "Ice 9."^[39]

Recurring themes[link]

Satriani during a concert in Rijnhal, Arnhem, 2008.

Satriani's work frequently makes references to various science fiction stories and ideas. "Surfing with the Alien," "Back to Shalla-Bal," and "The Power Cosmic 2000" refer to the comic book character Silver Surfer, while "Ice 9" refers to the secret government ice weapon in Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle. "Borg Sex" is a reference to Star Trek, which features a homogeneous cybernetic race known as the Borg. His albums and songs often have other-worldly titles, such as Not of this Earth, Crystal Planet, Is There Love in Space?, and Engines of Creation.

On the album Super Colossal, the song titled "Crowd Chant" was originally called "Party on the Enterprise." "Party on the Enterprise" featured sampled sounds from the Starship Enterprise from the Star Trek TV show. But as Satriani explained in a podcast, legal issues regarding the samples could not be resolved and he was unable to get permission to use them.^[40] Satriani then removed the sounds from the song and called it "Crowd Chant." The song is used as goal celebration music for a number of National Hockey League teams and MLS teams including the Minnesota Wild and New England Revolution.^[41] The song is also used in the EA Sports hockey video game NHL 10.

"Redshift Riders," another song on the Super Colossal album, is "based on the idea that in the future, when people can travel throughout space, they will theoretically take advantage of the cosmological redshift effect so they can be swung around large planetary objects and get across [the] universe a lot faster than normal," Satriani said in a podcast about the song.^[42] On the album Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock the song "I Just Wanna Rock," is about a giant robot on the run who happens to stumble upon a rock concert.^[43]

Awards and nominations[link]

Nominations[link]

Satriani has the second most Grammy Award nominations (15, after Brian McKnight), of any artist without winning. See further artists^[44][45]

Discography[link]

• Not of This Earth (1986)
• Surfing with the Alien (1987)
• Flying in a Blue Dream (1989)
• The Extremist (1992)
• Time Machine (1993)
• Joe Satriani (1995)
• Crystal Planet (1998)
• Engines of Creation (2000)
• Strange Beautiful Music (2002)
• Is There Love in Space? (2004)
• Super Colossal (2006)
• Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock (2008)
• Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards (2010)

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Official website
• Real "Guitar Hero" Joe Satriani turns Teacher at WorkshopLive.com
• Audio Interview with Joe Satriani on Guitar Jam Daily, June 2007
• Part 2 of Audio Interview with Joe Satriani on Guitar Jam Daily, July 2007
• Joe Satriani 2006 Modern Guitars Magazine Interview with Brian D. Holland
• MusiciansFriend Interview with Joe Satriani
• Joe Satriani live pictures
• Early Joe Satriani Photo
• Joe Satriani guitar video workshop
• Joe Satriani Artist Page at Guitar Video Channel