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Mike Valeras is a talented and highly regarded six-stringer currently based in Boston, Massachusetts (U.S.A.) who reveals his playing style as jazz/rock fusion, as a listener can readily experience on his most recent album, "The Mike Valeras Group".  His most utilized guitars consist of an Ernie Ball Music Man Silouette Special and a Parker Night Fly. Valeras has been playing guitar since 1977, and with no holds barred declares his career aspiration, "To become more proficient as an improviser in the jazz idiom and to improve as a songwriter."
When requested to divulge his one essential effect for the guitar, Valeras came back with, "Stereo chorus," and then pointed out his musicial goals, "To show people (sometimes one at a time) that there is more to music than pop radio and MTV." He fervently hopes to one day study classical guitar, and is presently listening to Tribal Tech, Chick Corea, Mike Stern and Pat Metheny. His primary fulfillment? "My greatest satisfaction is when as player you can make jazz or fusion translate to the non musician," he declares categorically.
 Valeras concludes by listing current and approaching undertakings succinctly, by saying, "Gigs, gigs, gigs, write, write, write, and hopefully more gigs."
Valeras's discography (available here at Guitar Nine Records) includes a number of recording projects (Mike Valeras Group "The Mike Valeras Group", Mike Valeras Group "Changes").
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