David Castillo via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other...
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Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: David Castillo
- City: Los Angeles, California
- Country: United States
- Hometown: New Orleans, Lousiana
My Life & Work
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Bio:
David A. Castillo is a versatile performer, producer, and educator. His upbringing in the beautiful city of New Orleans heavily influences his eclectic style. Since childhood, David always gravitated toward music. His studies began with his Aunt Brenda, who introduced him to the trumpet and to Dreux Montegut, who led the newly formed St. Louis Cathedral Boychoir. As his voice developed, his Aunt B also encouraged him to audition for musicals and eventually was cast in his first, The King and I, as Prince Chululongkorn. While at Loyola University New Orleans, David pursued Pre-Dentistry, which continued until the college cast him in his first operatic role in The Elixir of Love. He completed his Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance and moved to Los Angeles to attend the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music with a Master of Music in Vocal Arts. He graduated with honors from both institutions.
Singing has been a major part of his life, with his first public performance as an infant rumored to be “Baby Beluga” after stealing the microphone on the Stanford Basketball Court. Since then, David’s solo career brought him to Paris, The Vatican, Lincoln Center, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Severance Hall, Off-Broadway on 42nd Street, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, and the Hollywood Bowl. He performed many world premieres for the LA Philharmonic (War of the Worlds with Sigourney Weaver), LA Master Chorale, The Industry, and the LA Opera and with several dance companies, such as American Contemporary Ballet, Luminario Ballet, Mojacar Flamenco, and in residency with choreographer Jay Carlon as co-producer and narrator at LA Dance Project.
Music also became his gateway to the screen competing on two episodes of America’s Got Talent. After the show he began a career in print and commercial. His years as an instrumentalist came back into play, when he was cast as the Trumpet Player in Camila Cabello’s short film/music video “Liar.” It was on set where he met Anthony Meindl and later began his studies in acting at his Los Angeles school. David sang on several soundtracks and movies, including Star Wars: Episode IX The Rise of Skywalker and Call of the Wild.
As a producer, David created the multi-sensory experience Seven Deadly Sins in New Orleans. With writer William Nedved and Project Runway winner Kentaro Kameyama, David produced and performed the role of Lee “Alexander” McQueen in their show The Passion of McQueen and performed the role of Perseus in their show Medusa with Deaf West Theatre at the Getty Villa. With Kentaro, David also produced and directed the fashion and art exhibition “for anna.”
In education and in the community, David discovers and understands arts’ purpose beyond entertainment with humans of all ages and backgrounds. He traveled all over LA County on tour with LA Opera Connects working with elementary school students, worked and performed with the Skid Row Community through the Street Symphony, and frequently builds programs with the Foothill Service Club for the Blind. He is on the voice faculties of Moorpark College and Pierce College.
Contact Information
- Contact by Webpage: http://www.davidcastillo.la/#/inprocess/
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Management/Booking:
Nancy Clayton, manager
818.439.5144
ROCHELLE ROSSMAN, AGENT
818.588.4915
Rochelle@MomentumTalent.com
ALAN COTO, AGENT
(voiceovers)
323.903.7217
ALAN@90210TALENT.COM
My Media & Markets
- ▶ Instagram: davidcastilyo
- ▶ Website: http://www.davidcastillo.la
- ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/davidcastillomusic
Clips (more may be added)
The world's artistry via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other ...
... a project conceived and built in the fertile, fecund and atavistic ground zero of Bahia, Brazil initially for the discoverability of this singular region's dispossessed genius.
All explained in the window immediately below. Followed — beneath this window — by scores of magnificent artists, each leading to myriads more artists/categories. Inside this window also may be found our Brazilian record store radio, named by British journal The Guardian as one of 10 of the Best Radio Stations Around the World!
IF YOU CAN'T STAND THE HEAT
Brazil is not a European nation. It's not a North American nation. It's not an East Asian nation. It straddles -- jungle and desert and dense urban centers -- both the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn. It absorbed over ten times the number of African slaves taken to the United States of America, and much of its aboriginal population was absorbed into the general population-at-large. Its people have lived under oligarchy, plutocracy, dictatorships and massive corruption, with elements of these still strongly entrenched today.
But!
Brazil has buzz...not the shallow buzz of a fashionable moment...but the deep buzz of a population which in spite of -- or perhaps because of -- the tough slog through life they've been allotted by humanity's dregs-in-fine-linen, have chosen not to simply pull themselves along but to lift their voices in song and their bodies in dance...to eat well and converse well and much and to wring the joy out of the day-to-day happenings and small pleasures of life which are so often set aside or ignored in the European, North American, and East Asian nations.
For this Brazil has a genius perhaps unparalleled in all other countries and societies, a genius which thrives alongside peeling paint and holes in the streets and roads, under bad organization by the powers-that-be, both civil and governmental, under a constant rain of societal indignities...
Which is all to say that if you don't know Brazil and you're expecting any semblance of order, progress and light, you will certainly find the light! And the buzz of a people who for generations have responded to privation at many different levels by somehow rising above it all.
Raimundo Sodré, in a conversation ranging through New Orleans and Harlem and the South Side of Chicago ... and Appalachia and Irish villages and Russian shtetls and the unofficial symbol of Brazil's Bahian-born national music (the pandeiro) almost certainly having arrived in Brazil in the hands of Sephardic Jews (including conversos) fleeing the Inquisition, once remarked: "Where there's misery, there's music!"
A pandeirista on the roof. And it's not just music. And it's not just Brazil.
