Josep Suller

Josep Suller was born in Tarragona (Spain) on the 19th June 1971. He started out teaching himself the basics, by copying riffs and solos from his guitar idols: Mark Knopfler, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Ritchie Blackmore, Kee Marcello, Yngwie Malmsteen, etc.

He formed his first rock band “Lord Byron” at the age of 18, which later became the band “Lausengiers”. He played with Lausengiers for several years receiving great reviews from the local mass media. With Lausengiers, he won the competition “EXIT” in the year 1993, appearing on TV (Canal 33). In 1997 Lausengiers split up. In 1998 Josep joined his current band “Chicanos” with whom he recorded a CD and several demo tapes.

Thanks to Chicanos’ first CD, Josep got a contract to endorse the famous brand of guitar amplification CRATE. He has performed several clinics as a Crate endorser and he even played with Marty Friedman in a clinic in Salou (Tarragona) in the year 2000.

At the age of 23 he got a degree in English philologhy and started working as an English, computer science and music teacher at Sant Gregori school in Barcelona. He spent 6 years in Barcelona and decided to expand his musical knowledge in the “Taller de Musics de Barcelona”, where he studied jazz, harmony, composition, improvisation and other subjects for more than 3 years.

In the year 2000 Jose was the stage guitarist for singer Mikel Herzog (one of the most famous pop singers in Spain).

With Chicanos he has played hundreds of concerts all around Spain, appearing several times in the local press, radio and TV)

Josep has been working as an English teacher at the EOI Tarragona (Oficial Language School) since 2004.

He would love to find a record company for his band Chicanos and for his solo instrumental career to publish and release his music.

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