1. Marc Henry Bonilla was born on July 3,1955 and is an American guitarist who has worked as a sideman to artists such as Keith Emerson, Ronnie Montrose, Glenn Hughes, Edgar Winter, David Coverdale, and Asia.
13 Facts About Marc Bonilla
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Marc Bonilla moved to LA in the early 1990s to work on TV and movie scoring working with James Newton Howard, John Debney, and others, eventually earning an Emmy nomination in 2001.
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Marc Bonilla lectured at LA's Guitar Institute of Technology.
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Marc Bonilla has done guitars for numerous films such as The Replacements, The Scorpion King, Spider-Man 2, Iron Man 2, Green Lantern, The Bourne Legacy, and composed and performed the music on the hit series, Justified, on FX channel, with keyboardist Steve Porcaro.
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Marc Bonilla composed for Comedy Central's The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore.
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Marc Bonilla then joined the Keith Emerson band in 2006 and played with him until Emerson's passing in 2016.
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In 2012, Marc Bonilla completed an album with Keith Emerson titled The Three Fates Project with the Munich Radio Orchestra, conducted by Terje Mikkelsen.
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Guitar work for the Toy Matinee LP was done by LA studio guitarist Tim Pierce, though Marc Bonilla replaced him for the touring incarnation of the band along with Sheryl Crow, Spencer Campbell, and Toss Panos.
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Marc Bonilla worked extensively with Gilbert at the beginning of the 1990s, notably on his debut solo album EE Ticket which Gilbert produced.
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Marc Bonilla has worked with Glenn Hughes on two albums: 1996's Addiction and 1999's The Way It Is.
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Marc Bonilla currently plays in California Transit Authority, a project led by former Chicago drummer, founding member and Rock n' Roll Hall of Famer Danny Seraphine, featuring some updates to early Chicago songs as well as new material and has currently completed the follow-up album of all original material.
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Marc Bonilla has toured with Harry Shearer playing guitar, bass and mandolin, in his "Smalls Change Tour".
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Marc Bonilla's third solo release was a guitar instrumental album called Celluloid Debris, released in 2019 and available exclusively through his own website.