Luis Resto

Location:
Detroit’s Woodward Corridor, Michigan, US
Type:
Artist / Band / Musician
Genre:
Ambient / Experimental / Bossa Nova
Type:
Indie
Multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, arranger and producer.
"Luis Resto - a true keyboard genius - prematurely grey hair aside, he also looks just like he did as a teenager when, in 1980, Was (Not Was) hired him for his first recording session (he was paid triple scale - 3 x $0.00)."
It's a role he comes by honestly, says Don Was, the Grammy Award-winning producer and Oak Park native who added Resto to the late, outlandish party/fusion band Was (Not Was) when the keyboardist was still in his teens.
"Luis is the first person I met who made the synthesizer his primary instrument," Was says from his Los Angeles home. "He's a great piano player but that's a secondary occupation. When he came in, the screws on his Oberheim weren't even fastened down because he'd go in there and mess around with the internal stuff. He knew how to fix it, how to play with the circuit board and get different sounds out of it. His arrangement ideas were as a synthesist.
"At the time it made him a radical, and now he should be seen as one of the founding fathers of a whole genre of music. And he can play anything; he played violin on 'Wheel Me Out.' I think he's a total genius."



Luis performing with Eminem - American Music Awards, 22 November 2009.



Was (Not Was) "Wheel Me Out" (long version - Ze/Island circa 1980)
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