The City Band
Donny & Co.
Calvin Appleberry
Calvin Appleberry – Valnetine’s Dinner Music
Blu Sol
DCN Project
Black Pearl
Black Pearl Band NM originated in 2009.
Black Pearl Band NM won the Battle of The Bands at Knuckleheads Bar & Grill in Albuquerque, NM in 2009
Black Pearl Band NMÂ won the 2014 New Mexico Hispanic Music Association award for Bilingual Song of The Year!
Black Pearl Band NM received the 2016 Los 15 Grandes New Mexico Latin Music Academy Award!
2018 Corporate Sponsored by Premier Distributing of Santa Fe-Firestone Walker 805 beer
2018 Received permission from the Pueblo of Zia to utilize the Sacred Sun Symbol as our part of our logo!!
2018 Rio Rancho Readers Choice Award Nominee
Black Pearl Band NM is a New Mexico variety (horn driven) band performing R & B, Old School, Top 40, Country, Rancheras, Cumbia’s, and Waltz’. The band is comprised of musicians having more than thirty years of experience each.
Micky Cruz
Grammy nominated artist, Micky Cruz was born in Nicaragua, Central America, but his ancestry is Filipino and Mayan Indian. He was orphaned at the age of two when his family was killed in the Nicaraguan war in the late 1970s. He then raised himself on the streets of Central America and Mexico. Micky is a self-taught musician and composer who writes and produces all of his own music. His musical career began at the age of seven as a survival tactic due to the conditions of a third world country. He never thought that music would become a full-time career but people enjoyed his voice so much that it seemed to be the natural thing to do.
Micky Cruz has performed extensively throughout the southwest as one of the premier acts taking the stage at the hottest clubs in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, Casino nightclubs, and the big stages like Legends theatre and Las Vegas, Nevada. Micky Cruz is an award winning New Mexico musician having received the coveted Los 15 Grandes award several times in past years, including recently in 2010!
Micky’s music is best described as Cumbia, Salsa, and Reggae with an interesting, refreshing twist where Micky has combined styles together and invented “Cumbegue” music. Totally unique, cumbegue music takes the best elements of cumbia-salsa-reggae and combines them into a very strong and danceable beat coupled with great melodic hooks and harmonies, then capped off with exciting soloing throughout the band.
Joe Mark Angelo & The Hard Livin’ Band
Joe Mark Angelo (born July 10, 1988) is a singer, songwriter,and rhythm guitarist. While self-releasing demos of just himself and a guitar, Joe has had the opportunity to work with local artists like Kathryn Soapes, Sam & Nate, Bo Brown, Unwound, The Brahma Band, Double Shot (ABQ), Whiskey Wild, Perfect StrangR, and is now working on his own solo project, Joe Mark Angelo and Hard Livin’.
Born Angelo Aaron Gallegos in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Larry B. Gallegos (former TV commercial producer, editor & director for local station KOB-TV Channel 4 and local Comcast Cable group, and current Public Information Officer) and Isabelle Anita Moreno-Gallegos (a dental assistant). He has one younger sister, Giana Dominique Gallegos (massage therapist for Massage Envy). While still called Angelo by his family and close friends, he began introducing himself to others as “Joe”. “I took the “J” sound in my name and added it to the “O” and “E” I already had. Been calling myself Joe since I was ten, as well as using a Texas accent that I can never fully get rid of,” he says. “But it’s what’s given me my identity and character for the past fifteen years.”
Joe is also a 2006 graduate of St. Pius X High School of Albuquerque.
He picked up rodeo bronc riding and bull riding in his last year of high school and continued on through college. “The hard part was going out of town for rodeos and telling my family I was just going out with some friends. And explaining that I had either too much to drink or just ended up falling asleep at my friends house as the reason why I was getting home at 4 in the morning. And as for the bumps and bruises I had, or the limps i walked with, I just blamed it on co-workers at work or that I just slept wrong,” he says. “But, of course, one of my friends from the circuit recognized me and started complimenting me on how well I’ve improved and how I’m a shoe-in for Rookie of the Year in our organized club. Needless to say, I had a lot of explaining to do. But, now everyone is at peace with it and is glad I’ve found something that makes me happy, aside from music.”
Joe started learning how to play guitar at the age of 10 and looked up to musicians like Steve Wariner, Vince Gill, and Ricky Skaggs for inspiration. “I’ve been influenced to sing by singers like George Strait, Alan Jackson, Randy Travis, and Keith Whitley,” says Joe. “But the two biggest influences I’ve had are Brad Paisley and Rick Trevino. The way they sing, dress, play the guitar, the songwriting, the multiple instruments they play. Everything about them is what I wanted to be.”
After working at Caravan East Nightclub as a DJ & Sound Technician, Joe had the opportunity to audition for Double Shot. After passing the audition, he was made the newest member of Double Shot, which included Patrick Pearson on bass guitar and backup/lead vocals, Craig Rivera on lead guitar and backup vocals, Ron Sodos on pedal steel guitar, and “Al” Alfred Avery on drums and backup/lead vocals.
Joe has also had the opportunity to work with The Brahma Band, Whiskey Wild, and after filling in one night on vocals for drummer/lead singer, Melvin Montano from Perfect StrangR, Joe was asked to become the newest member of the popular Northern New Mexico Country group from Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico. After a year and a half with the band, Joe decided to cut it out on his own.
Hard Livin’ formed to bring a group of talented musicians, whose sole purpose is to give to people great music. “I’m determined to make our sound known to everyone.” says Joe. “I want to get to the point in my career that when folks hear my songs, just like George Strait, they think of real country music.”