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DAVID LONGORIA
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Grammy® Award winning trumpeter David Longoria bought his first trumpet on layaway at Ben's Loan, a local pawn shop in his hometown of Renton, Washington over the span of a year and a half of weekly payments when he was 10.

– the price, $65 was a sum “hard to raise in a hurry when you’re ten and poor,” he says. Amazingly, he still plays the same gold plated trumpet to this day. The two have been on an amazing journey, starting every Sunday at church and including practicing every day of his childhood in his front yard. He still apologizes to his childhood neighbors.

Growing up in a family rich in love, yet financially challenged meant that David couldn't afford private lessons to learn the trumpet. The local Renton Salvation Army offered free music classes where David was taught how to read music and the fingerings for the trumpet. "I appreciate so much the loving mentorship of the officers there, Brigadeers Charles and Edith Bennett who gave freely of their time and teachings to lift me up and help me to learn music", David says, adding "to this day I still try to continue that spirit of giving, sharing with others by teaching young people to play and cherish music." David discovered he could earn money playing on a street corner in Seattle on weekends, which helped him learn to improvise and play hundreds of requested songs on the spot. For his street corner performances he was joined by trombone player John Halvorson and together they dressed in formal tails and took on the moniker The Seattle Street Symphony. Their weekly performances soon got the notice of Seattle Rock radio station KZOZ who enlisted them to perform at local festivals calling them the KZOK Born To Horn Street Band.

The trumpet led David to a multi-faceted career that found him playing for legendary pop and rock artists, including Foreigner, James Brown and Marvin Gaye. Making his solo recording debut at 17 with his Montage album, he was indie before it was cool, selling several thousand copies across the U.S. and Canada before moving to Los Angeles to continue his career.

Starting with regular performances at Magic Mountain with his own Dixieland style jazz group called the Walt Dixie World Quartet, he took inspiration from the recordings of Louis Armstrong, Al Hirt and others. David’s ease switching between musical styles led to a busy career working in music for TV, film and commercials. David's debut solo single Deeper Love features dance music icon Cece Peniston. It climbed the US Billboard dance music charts and quickly became a club standard, playing all over the world every night since its release in 2005.

Dynamically fusing stylistic ideas from his classical background and a distinctive flair for melody and improvisation with today’s freshest cutting edge dance vibes, David Longoria released his Latin-driven album Baila! followed by his groundbreaking edm and jazz blended album The Journey. It was designed to chronicle one's life. Events that we all share over the years.

The Journey brought David's song“Angels,” a Hollywood Music in Media Awards winner for Best EDM Song.

“Like many of the jazz musicians I grew up admiring, including Miles Davis, I’m always looking to create musical ideas and sounds that haven’t been done before and that are relevant to what’s happening today,” David says. “EDM is everywhere these days, but the people listening and dancing to it may not know how well it works with jazz and catchy melodies. I wanted to introduce to them just what a live trumpet can do with catchy, accessible melodies.”

The compelling album The Journey cover, shot by Michael Jackson’s former photographer Harrison Funk in the desert outside Las Vegas, represents both David’s ambitious quest and that of every person to find his or her purpose amidst a choice of pathways.

In 2020 David created an album with his own fresh take on classic jazz songs called MOOD. Guests on the highly acclaimed album include Barbara Morrison, Promise Marks, Freda Payne, Poncho Sanchez, and Marc Antonelli.

"I wanted to answer all the fans who ask 'what's the perfect album to put on for a nice evening with a romantic dinner?'" So I chose some wonderful guest artists to join me and some iconic songs, David says, adding "and I'm very proud of the results",

Released in 2022 was David's jazz album "A Better Place", featuring his song "Make The World A Better Place" which is a theme he often shares in songs and concerts. "It's important for me to say something with my music that can help people and lift up those around us", David explains. "More important than just showing off on my trumpet, I want to make music that touches people and gives hope. "

During the 2021 worldwide shutdowns David pulled together a big band and created a fun jazzy romp with his tongue-in-cheek single "Bitcoin Billionaire" which has gathered a lot of attention because of it's fun theme of the fantasy of crypto currency making one rich. It brings a smile to audiences everywhere.

While all of these releases were coming out...

WE ARE ONE

David wrote and produced his iconic song of unity called We Are One.

"It was the 35th anniversary of Michael Jackson & Lionel Richie's collaborative hit We Are The World where they brought voices together to benefit the needy in Africa and I thought it was about time I should bring current voices together to heal some of the divide in our country and our world, David explains. It started out as a small collaboration after inviting 20 artists to join me and kept on growing until we finally released it with 750 Music Artists from the 1950s to now. From The Coasters, Drifters, Platters, Pointer Sisters, Freda Payne, to The Dazz Band, The 5th Dimention, Peaches & Herb, Dallas Lovato, Barbara Morrison and many more."

“We Are One” is now the “biggest song in the history of pop music” based on the number of artists contributing.

The song is the springboard of a new movement David has created, whose mission is to bring people together to promote unity, using music and concerts, involving different races and cultures, broadening the vision of acceptance and support for each other. David and his team at www.weareconcerts.org are bringing together performers from different races and cultures,

They are launching the song and concerts in cities most affected by racial divisions over the past years, including New York, Baltimore, Seattle, Dallas and many others. David believes that bringing local students, choirs and national artists together is a great way to support and encourage one another. “We believe that in this way, kids and communities, both as performances and audience, will experience first-hand the power of unity,” says David, who has donated an average of 100 live concert performances per year for kids as part of the LIFT program.

In the We Are One Concerts, David and his team are bringing several high school choirs to perform together with national recording artists in each city. Each choir performs a song with the artists, then all will join for a memorable finale with everyone together singing “We Are One.” David’s goal for this ambitious project is to reach a million kids over the next two and a half years, in live, broadcast and streaming concerts.

In 2025 fresh with his GRAMMY® AWARD David Longoria is performing in concerts, festivals and on television with exciting fresh releases scheduled for early summer.

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