The Plateros
Our featured band is The Plateros.
They are a three piece Native American Family Blues Band from Albuquerque, NM.
The band includes Levi, a teenager that plays a hard driving bluesy style of guitar that you have to hear to believe.
Band Website: http://www.myspace.com/theplateros
Genre: Blues
Bio:
The group consist of Levi on Guitar / Vocals, with his father, Murphy on Bass guitar / Vocals, and his older cousin Doug on Drums.
It's a family band from the Eastern Agency of the Navajo Nation, for generations since the late 50s, Platero's have been know for singing and as musicians within Tohajiilee Indian Reservation near Albuquerque NM .
In 2003 the youngest Platero made his way to the main stage of performing members of the family, Levi is one of those few kids that just connects with music if it be drums, keyboards or the GUITAR, Raised in a musical family, it was no doubt that this would be the road he would take, as it is the same for Douglas who also grew up in a musical family in Kayenta AZ.
In the Winter of 2004, Levi and his cousin Douglas, together, started playing and practicing almost every day after work and school. In November, Murphy sat in with them at the small home studio/ practice room just to see what they knew, later he found out that the boys had been given a gift. From that moment on Levi would press his dad to continue to practice with them. In December of 2004, they played their first engagement. "amazing" was a word that was used after The Plateros completed thier set.
Discography:
2005 April, Released an EP, Get It Right.
2005 Dec, Released a DVD, Live At The New Mexico State Fair 2005.
2006 May, Released their self-titled CD The Plateros.
2007 Artist of the month. March 2007 by the Indigenous Internet Chamber of Commerce.
2007 April, The Plateros were Nominated for Best Blues Album by The New Mexico Music Awards.
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