I was born in Brasil , Natal, the 1st of May 1977; of a Spanish mother and Brasilian father. After various life experiences I came to europe as a kid and lived in France until the age of 11. It was already my big dream to be a rock singer since I heard Elvis for the 1st time when my sister gave me a tape of him. I started playing guitar on my own at the age of 11 , when I arrived in Spain (Barcelona). The year after I started a band with some guys from the ghetto I was living in. It was real fun , even if we were not great musicians we were just friends playing together. At the age of 15 I went to the Costa Brava to live and I started a band in Barcelona with Victor who was playing drums, Joan on guitar & Xavi on the bass. We formed “The Griffters” a hard rock band with an American style .In '93 we recorded our 1st demo with 6 songs on a 4 track recorder . After that record the band split up . In '94 I tried to form a new band “Paranoia” but we didn´t go too far. I started to compose my own songs like “running away” and “ there´s some magic” and I called some friends to go into the studio to record 2 songs: “the light of my life” & “tv scream”. That recording was the best I had done until that date . After that I left Spain and went to Switzerland to study in a school in '96. I met some guys who had a progressive metal band and they needed a singer , so I did the try-out and it worked; i was the new singer for MT20, just singing without the guitar , so I could concentrate more on my voice. We did some gigs in Switzerland and France and also a demo with 3 long songs. I stopped school and had to come back to Spain because the state didn´t allow me to stay in Switzerland due to the laws of the country. Coming back to Spain in '98 i stopped playing in bands , and started playing alone with my guitar in hotels , pubs , restaurants , parties , playing all different kinds of music , besides I did some projects and recordings with guitar players from Germany and Spain like Guido Neuhoff , André Krengel , Steve Keller , Joan Casanovas ( Ex-Griffters ).I always wanted to play rock but I needed to live , so I had to play any kind of music , cos rock has never been big in Spain , most of the rock comes from England , Germany , USA. I was running out of time , like a fool looking for gigs everywhere doing cover songs from Eric Clapton , Deep ,Purple , Stevie Wonder , Lionel Richie , Roy Orbison , Eagles, George Benson , Sting , and a lot more . It worked very well , until the law stopped the musicians playing in the Costa Brava. Police were always controlling and it was quite impossible to play everywhere as before. So I took the decision to move to the States and try my chances out there. Because if you can´t fight for what you dream here , there must be a place in the world where you can do it , and that place can be America .

-Danny Veras