Greg “Goyo” Hernandez is a Los Angeles based musician, visual artist, performer and music producer. He is the Author of our Travel Blog: Goyo On The Go!
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Biography of a Travel Blogger
Starting at a young age, and for the past 35 years, he has performed in various and diverse bands, ranging from North American Western influenced to Blues, Rock and Roll, Punk Rock, Jazz, and everything in between. His multi-genre musical fluidity has allowed for expansion and experimentation with diverse sounds and tones, leading him to exploratory projects, that merged the different cultural music genres of World music.
Living in the 90’s
During the late 90’s, along with Angel Garcia, Hernandez co-founded the much-heralded and pioneering music project Mezklah. Mezklah embodied and marked the evolution of the new burgeoning sound of L.A., with their unique hybrid electronica tunes, set to local cultural sounds and rich tribal overtones, resulting in a distinctive and completely new sound.
They have been described as a very intelligent mixture of traditional Latin music, alternative rock, jungle, reggae, dub, and drum-and-bass. With an innovative presence that included, among other things, performance art, Mezklah had a sound and stage presence that was truly unparalleled and artistic, gaining the reputation as “one of L.A.’s most powerful and promising alt-Latino bands.” (Los Angeles Times).
Mezklah took their sound internationally, touring in Latin America, Europe and Japan. Most notably, Mezklah played to a crowd of 20,000 at Mexico City’s La Feria del Libro festival. They also went on to open for notable acts such as Ozomatli, Kinky, Maldita Vencidad , Antibalas and has worked with Ry Cooder during time of his conceptual album Chavez Ravine. Also recently Greg Hernandez has worked with Johnny Avila of Oingo Boingo producing music for San Diego band Marujah for Latin Grammy Nomination and most recently of Dec of 2019 working a new indie Documentary politicized around the military complex waste of native lands of Tuscon Arizona. During this time Greg Hernandez Teamed up tv commercial with Danny Haro actor of movie American Me and now producer and director.
Music and the Theatre
From 2010 to present, Hernandez has continued his musical trajectory as a hired musician and performer, who has also expanded his creative outlets to include writing and recording with various notable bands in Los Angeles, San Diego and New Mexico.
As an enthusiast for Soundscape theatre and story-telling, Hernandez finally found the opportunity to merge all his collective musical experience with his passions, resulting in the film scoring and writing of original music composition for the Latinx (using Latinx is optional, some people like it others don’t, but Latino could also then be Latina/o) comedy film, Lola’s Love Shack. Produced by Migrant Film Works and distributed by Indican Pictures in 2013, Lola’s Love Shack won the Audience Award at the Reel Rasquache Film Festival and was screened at various film festivals internationally.
That same year, Hernandez went on to compose another original film score for comedy web series Monkeyfunkles.
Music as a Mode of Empowerment
For Hernandez, music is not only a way to emotionally connect with his audience, he also understands it to be a universal language, whose frequency and sound can help stir thoughts, ideas and awaken positive vibrations as a way to convey imagination. Music as an evocation of the human spirit, a mode of empowerment, but also as a vehicle to support visual and spoken expressions, be it within a cinematographic sphere, spoken word, live theatre, or any other space and art production in which sound and music are elemental components of a collaborative venture.
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