Luis Villegas (born July 28, 1969) is an American guitarist best known for his debut CD Cafe Olé, which mixed new-age music, flamenco, and jazz and garnered a spot on the Grammy ballot for Best New Age Album of the Year in 1999. He is known for using a technique of playing fast, intricate lines by using the fingernail of his right index finger in place of a guitar pick. He also had a small role, as a member of a band, in the film Collateral starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx. Currently, he is a member of the group "Heavy Mellow" along with founder Benjamin Woods and percussionist Mike Bennett.
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Music Band
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Jesse Cook
Canadian guitarist, composer, and producer
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Oscar Lopez
Canadian musician
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Armik
Iranian musician
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Johannes Linstead
Canadian musician
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Lawson Rollins
American musician
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Kazumi Watanabe
Japanese jazz guitarist, composer, producer and University visiting professor (1953-)
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Pavlo Simtikidis
Canadian guitarist
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Govi
German musician
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Young & Rollins
musical partnership
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John McLaughlin
English guitarist, bandleader, and composer; founder of the Mahavishnu Orchestra
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Gregg Bissonette
American drummer
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Tim Hodgkinson
English experimental music composer and performer
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Michael Laucke
Canadian classical and flamenco guitarist
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Shahin and Sepehr
musical artist
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Carmen
band
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Cultura Profética
Puerto Rican reggae band formed in 1996
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Return to Forever
American jazz fusion group led by Chick Corea
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Jim Messina
American musician, songwriter, singer, guitarist, recording engineer and record producer
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Chick Corea
American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer
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Stanley Clarke
American bassist, film composer and founding member of Return to Forever
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Gino D'Auri
Italian flamenco, fusion and classical guitarist
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Henrik Freischlader
German musician
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Praful
German composer and jazz musician
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Dave Douglas
American jazz trumpeter
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Jerry Gonzalez
American musician
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The Violet Burning
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The Lounge Lizards
band
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The Tony Williams Lifetime
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Paco de Lucía
Spanish flamenco, classical, jazz guitarist & musician
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Lara & Reyes
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Fred Frith
English musician, composer and improvisor
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Man Man
band that plays experimental rock
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Lenny Breau
Canadian musician
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Scott Henderson
jazz fusion and blues guitarist
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Sky
British/Australian instrumental group
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Sea Level
Southern rock/funk/fusion jam band
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Al Di Meola
American guitarist
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Robby Krieger
American rock guitarist and songwriter