Artist: Craig Chaquico Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Holiday Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
Midnight Noon Year: 2004
Tracks: 10
Four Corners Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
From The Redwoods To The Rockies Year: 1998
Tracks: 10
Acoustic Planet Year: 1994
Tracks: 9
Acoustic Highway Year: 1993
Tracks: 9
Shadow and Light Year:
Tracks: 10
Once In A Blue Universe Year:
Tracks: 13
A Thousand Pictures Year:
Tracks: 10
During the '70s and '80s, guitarist/songwriter Craig Chaquico played lead guitar with the popular rock band Jefferson Starship (which after became Starship). In 1993, he released his first base adult contemporary acoustic feat,
Acoustic Highway. Chaquico, a musician since childhood, started professionally in nightclubs at age 14. He began his association with Jefferson Starship when he was 16. At first base he began recording with a few of the members and then was officially asked to link them on hitch as a track guitar player.
At the same time, Chaquico likewise helmed his own stripe Steelwind. He toured with both until joining the Starship permanently. Soon after, he developed into i of their independent songwriters. Among the songs he has penned or co-penned are "Jane," "Discover Your Way Back," and "Layin' It on the Line." Since the early '90s, Chaquico has worked on diversifying his music and branching extinct more into new years or reality music, as canful be heard in his song "Only One World" and the 1994 album
Acoustic Planet, his blend of guitar playing and recordings of African and Native American music. The birdcall became part of NASA's Space Ark project and is straightaway in permanent orbit around the Earth. His first base release in the new hundred, 2002's Shadow and Light, was elysian by the tragedy of the terrorist attacks on New York in 2001.
When not playing music, Chaquico enjoys machine racing and riding his Harley in benefits for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. He is likewise a graphic artist and amateur astronomer. Chaquico continued to release album passim the latter half of the '90s, just it was his charity work that deserved the most attending as he began to play one unfreeze hospital concert a hebdomad (with obvious exceptions) for children and he bucked up many of his contemporaries and friends to execute similar shows.
