Contents.Career Raised in San Diego, California and classically trained, Suen began playing violin at the age of three. He served as a principal violinist with the La Jolla Symphony Orchestra and also studied jazz while earning a degree in Psychology at. He became a fixture in the San Diego music scene performing with rock, folk, jazz, and world music groups as well as recording with such artists as, Matt Curreri & the Exfriends, Joanie Mendenhall, and among others. He would also occasionally feature with the house band on.Upon graduation in 2007, he began his first national tour playing violin and keys with San Diego glam-rock band, opening for the Las Vegas rock band, on the last leg of their. Suen would later join The Killers in 2008 as keyboardist, guitarist, violinist, and backing vocalist for their and appears on The Killers' live concert DVD,.Suen met members of Mariachi El Bronx when they opened for the Killers and began touring with them following the end of the Day & Age Tour.

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He would later become a member, writing songs and playing vihuela, jarana, harp, guitar, violin, and vocals for albums and 'III'. Suen left the band in 2014.Other artists Suen has performed with include,. Suen played with Sproule during a short tour in February 2009 and played percussion with The Flaming Lips on in October 2009.

Suen appeared again with The Flaming Lips at the 2011 New Year's Eve Freakout playing harp, guitar, synth and other percussion for the first live performance of album. He performed subsequent Soft Bulletin shows as well as Dark Side of the Moon shows as an auxiliary musician.Suen joined Childish Gambino during the I Am Donald tour playing guitar, keyboard, and violin.

He resumed playing with Childish Gambino for the Camp, Because the Internet and tours. He also contributed to the album released December 2016.In 2015, Suen was a touring member of in support of their third album, Kindred. In 2016, he toured with Australian R&B artist playing keyboards in support of his first American album, 'High.'

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Contents.Background The Bronx first expressed intentions to record in a mariachi style in April 2007, when they announced plans to record both a mariachi album and a album in short succession, hoping to release the former before the end of that summer. However, they did not enter the recording studio until March 2008, by which time they planned to release the mariachi album before the end of the summer. Mariachi El Bronx was recorded in March 2008 at Brandos Paradise in with and, who also played, sang backing vocals, and the album with the band.In June 2008 the band posted a video to of themselves performing ' in mariachi style under the name 'Mariachi El Bronx'. The punk rock album was released first, on November 11, 2008. Titled, it was their third album. The band supported it with a world tour from September through December 2008 covering, the, the, and, playing with bands such as,.

In a December 2008 interview, singer commented that ' Mariachi El Bronx was something that was a part of us that we didn't really realize. I mean, being from Los Angeles and, you know, growing up and surrounded by Mexican culture, it just kind of happened. We were writing two or three songs a day for that record, and the lyrics and everything just kind of shit out of all of us. it was the funnest and easiest record we've ever made.' Guitarist Joby J. Ford, discussing the band's decision to leave and to release The Bronx on their own label White Drugs, remarked that 'I want to be in a band that plays music that I like and also has another band where they play mariachi music.'

In March 2009 The Bronx played the festival in, followed by a tour of the United States ending in June. In an April 2009 interview, Caughthran spoke more about Mariachi El Bronx:The record's been done for a while now, hopefully it's gonna come out in like early or mid summer.

It's a really really important record; it's the best thing I've ever done. It's all original music, traditional mariachi stuff, and it's the punkest thing in the world for a band like The Bronx to put out a record like that. And I know it's gonna fuck a lot of people up.

I want to make sure it gets done the right way, so we're being real careful with it. We don't know if we have the manpower ourselves to put it out on White Drugs, so we're trying to see if we can find a label who's in love with it enough to put it out there.On the impetus for switching styles for the album, Caughthran remarked that many musicians 'kind of blow it by not challenging themselves and not listening to their urges, so to speak. A lot of bands play it safe and make the same record over and over again. It was just one of those things, where we got asked to do an acoustic thing for, and it's like nothing sucks more than rock bands playing acoustic rock songs.

You know, it just sucks. So we did a song mariachi style, and it just opened up this whole thing where we were like 'This is awesome.' So we wrote some songs, and it just became.' He speculated that Mariachi El Bronx might tour with after the album's release, calling it 'a whole different outlet – we can go tour with bands The Bronx couldn't go on tour with.' The first Mariachi El Bronx song to see release was a cover of 's ', released on the in June 2009. The following month the band announced that Mariachi El Bronx would be released on September 1 through, who had released the version of their second album, 2006's.

In July exclusively debuted the song 'Quinceniera' as on their website. The website Clashmusic.com then offered a free download of 'Slave Labor' in August, the same month that released a for 'Cell Mates' in the. The band launched a full album stream on, followed by the premier of the for 'Cell Mates' on August 28, 2009. Track listing All tracks are written by Mariachi El Bronx. Silver or Lead'3:507.' Slave Labor'2:388.' Clown Powder'4:099.'

My Brother the Gun'3.3411.' My Love'3:13Personnel. Band. –. Joby J. Ford –,.

Vincent Hidalgo –, jarana, guitar, requinto romantico. Ken Horne –. Brad Magers –, backing vocals. Jorma Vik –,Additional musicians. John Avila –, backing vocals.

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Francesca Fernes –. –, guitar.

Bruce Lee –. Alfredo Ortiz – percussion. Liza Piccadilly – violin. Lia Teoni – violinProduction. John Avila –, recording,. Gavin Lurssssen –. William V.

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