The Free Agents WNY
Angel Davila. - Vocals Bruce Sierra. - Lead Guitars Miguel Nunez. - Keyboards Zoraida Espinoza.- Lead Vocals Ailyn Alonso.- Vocals Fernando Gonzales. - Bas
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Band were:
Angel Davila. - Vocals
Bruce Sierra. - Lead Guitars
Miguel Nunez. - Keyboards
Zoraida Espinoza.- Lead Vocals
Ailyn Alonso.- Vocals
Fernando Gonzales. - Bass
Jose Gonzalez.- Acoustic Guitar
Oscar Gonzalez.- Drums
Steven Perez.- Percussions
Erwin Armijos.- Website Programming
Walter Bonilla.- Marketing
Honorary Members:
Johnny Gonzalez.- Drums
Alberto Alonso.- Video film production
They were an unknown and forgotten potential as a group. From the streets of a town in West New York - New Jersey, emerged a group of friends whose diverse backgrounds brought a diverse collection of art and music as well as unfinished concepts that would have landed them a business opportunity that never came to be in the early 2000's. Despite their short term line up, the multi cultural group of friends left a legacy of memoirs, photos, audios and some footage that is available all over the internet on what it was like growing in the late 1990's until their parting ways in the early 2000's.
It all started sometime in 1994 West New York, New Jersey, a town that neighbors the township of Weehawken, North Bergen and Union City. The school was Public School # 2 managed the principal Mr Mario Capozzi and vice principal Mr Anthony Ferraignolo. A fifth grade class under the tutelage of Mrs Anastasia Olivero (Stacy Olivero) had students Angel Davila, Miguel Nunez, and Fernando Gonzales seeking to establish some kind of group or band based on their common likings: Comic Books, Cartoons, Rock, Alternative Pop Music and Hip Hop. In Fernando's book "The King Of Nowhere" , he recalls that he and his friends had a fascination for video games. "I think it was a time that I wasn't happy with the weird bullying situation I had with Frank Gioia, Dave Vega, and the things Andy Guevaria was doing to those who were not part of his group - Angel said something that we need to form a group that could counter their toxic attitude and we can just welcome those who needed a peaceful side of things. No bullying no confrontation nonsense. I agreed but it took us a while what to make the group have a meaning." Long time friend of Gonzales, Vicky Kusnecova, affirmed that the mid 1990's were mixed and turbulent with the advent of Hip Hop reaching the mainstream market. Artists such as Junior Mafia, Ruff Riders, Wu Tang Clan, Tupac , Notorious B.I.G outnumbering rock acts like Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots just to name a few. During Mrs Olivero's 5th grade year to Mr Glen Rome's 7th grade year, the first stages started as the original group of friends were engaged in tv , movie, musical ideas that would enable them interact with masses to what people in the post 2000's era would know as social media.Band/artist history
The band started in 1995 with Angel Davila, Miguel Nunez, Bruce Sierra, and Fernando Gonzales. Band came to further development in 1996-1997 with additional members: Oscar Gonzalez, Jose Gonzalez, Zoraida Espinoza and Ailyn Alonso. The original rock jam sessions took place around the summer of 1997 and their original tape home made demos remained intact and have not changed since.Have you performed in front of an audience?The band has performed live at several locations in Hoboken, Jersey City, North Bergen, Weehawken, West New York, Ridgefield Park, and Fort Lee. Most of the performances were at public high school talent shows.
Your musical influences
Influences vary such as Nirvana, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Sex Pistols, The Ramones, Duran Duran, Backstreet Boys, Deftones, Blink 182, Oasis and The BeatlesWhat equipment do you use?
Tama Drums, Fender, Stratocaster, Aria Pro Bass, Peavey Amplifiers, Roland Digital Drums.Anything else?
in 2017, the band resumed after 20 years to finish their unfinished album "Enter Medazzaland" rock versions in addition to original unreleased tracks. The songs were posted online for free as it was a long forgotten dream to achieve a project that was discarded due to a lot of deferments caused by work and personal reasons. In the words of Bruce Sierra, Angel Davila, Zoraida Espinoza, Peter Magran, Natalie Aponte, and Fernando Gonzales: "life during and after college hits you...dating, work, marriage, divorces and people begin to live in different cities and in some cases; countries."
West New York, New Jersey
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