Tonight, Thursday, December 10, 2015 at 7 pm Pacific Time / 8 pm Mountain Time / 10 pm Eastern Time, we embrace the arts via music as we highlight two dynamic Chicano musicians via Rick Phoenix Manzo and KJ Melgoza.  KJ and I talk a bit about Scott Weiland who was a former singer of Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver in light of his recent passing.  RIP Scott Weiland.

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Rick Phoenix Manzo is a melodic hard rock singer-songwriter from Mercedes Texas (South Texas). Former bands he has been known from are Orions legacy, Drain of life, Faultered State, Fates Armada and his main band A day of ashes (2007 – 2014) which released their debut CD titled Turmoil in 2009.A song we will be playing tonight is titled “Breathless” from the Turmoil album. Bands music is at Reverbnation.com/Adayofashes

Rick Phoenix recently left A day of ashes to pursue his solo project called “I, Beyond Scars”. At the moment he is writing new music for a 5 song demo EP to be released in 2016 and he is searching for musicians to collaborate with on each song. Rick also writes for two magazines from South Texas. He writes for the local music scene and for national touring acts feature called Rockland revolution. He is also writing for Xtreme magazine of Texas featuring hot models and cars and entertainment. Rick has also done a little bit of amateur acting in some features playing an extra in a movie which had actor Danny Trejo in it.

KJ Melgoza is an Arizona native from Phoenix now living in Sweden. He started playing music when he was 14. He also works on hotrod cars since he could hold a wrench. KJ was the front man of Arizona Metal band Warhead in High school where he was nicknamed Kjaris from Michael –a close High school friend. KJ lived in Hollywood, then moved to Sweden with his girlfriend Hanna. Currently he offers music lessons both online and privately, and he also offers services to write/record and produce music. His information can be found on various sources most notably YouTube.com/kjaris and his webpage www.kjaris.com.