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Zecca Esquibel Guests On “If These Walls Could Talk” With Hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss Wednesday, October 16th, 2024 

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Who else but hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss could “spill the tea” on their weekly show “If These Walls Could Talk” live from Pangea Restaurant on the Lower Eastside of NYC, with their unique style of honest, and emotional interviews, sharing the fascinating backstory of celebrities, entertainers, recording artists, writers and artists and bringing their audience along for a fantastic ride.   

Zecca Esquibel will be a featured guest on “If These Walls Could Talk” with hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss on Wednesday, October 16th, 2024 at 2 PM ET live from the infamous Pangea Restaurant.

Wendy Stuart is an author, celebrity interviewer, model, filmmaker and along with If These Walls Could Talk she hosts TriVersity Talk, a weekly web series with featured guests discussing their lives, activism and pressing issues in the LGBTQ Community. 

Tym Moss is a popular NYC singer, actor, and radio/tv host who recently starred in the hit indie film “JUNK” to critical acclaim. 

Zecca Esquibel was the keyboard player in the Cherry Vanilla band in early 1977, which also included StingStewart Copeland and Louie Lepore.

Born in São Paulo, Brazil, composer, producer and arranger Zecca Esquibel’s first stage performance on piano was at Peabody Preparatory in Baltimore, Maryland at the age of 7. He spent his childhood and teens winning a daunting schedule of classical piano competitions until, inspired at Woodstock, he left home at 18 to become a rock musician. At the age of 23, in New York city, he received rave reviews for his performance in the landmark Off-Off-Broadway Gay musical “Lovers” in his basement loft on Church St. (The Basement Theater). KISS rehearsed their first National Tour there on alternate nights. Immediately after, he single-handedly founded a 16 floor live-in loft and rehearsal studio complex called The Music Building at 251 W 30th St. in Manhattan’s Garment District, which functioned for 40 years! Soon, Zecca was playing his first arena’s and colosseums with The Jimmy Castor Bunch (RCA). Disgusted with off-stage behavior, Zecca complained to his best friend, the late Sean Delaney (often called “the fifth KISS”), and Sean arranged an audition with Bowie alum Cherry VanillaMiles Copeland saw them in New York and invited Cherry, Zecca, and Cherry‘s new love, guitarist Louie Lepore, to come to London offering members of The Police to fill in as the missing musicians. The rest is well covered in Sting‘s “Broken Music“.

After 18 months of touring and recording in the US and Europe with Cherry Vanilla (RCA London), Zecca returned to New York and wrote the music for his own band GET WET (Boardwalk Records).His single “Just So Lonely” rose to #39 in Billboard’s Pop Chart and Top 10 overseas. 

Zecca joined “downtown” performance artist John Kelly in 1994‘s “Far Cry From Bliss” (Danspace, NY), and he has accompanied Mr. Kelly in recitals as well as all four of his Joni Mitchell shows touring the US and Europe.  Appearing in Drag as an 85 year old Georgia O’Keefe beside Kelly as Mitchell, they were the opening act for parts of Natalie Merchant’s 1999 Ophelia World Tour. He also played keys for blues legend Garland Jeffreys’ US and Canada tours from 2002 to 2007.

In 2019, Kelly and Zecca revived their Joni shows “sans perruque” (out of Drag) to sold out crowds in a residency at Joe’s Pub (Public Theater). In April, 2024, Zecca began performing with Penny Arcade in her “Art of Becoming”, again at Joe’s Pub.

Watch Zecca Esquibel on “If These Walls Could Talk” with hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss on YouTube here:

Subscribe and listen to “If These Walls Could Talk” on Apple Podcasts/iTunes here:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/if-these-walls-could-talk/id1561221158

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Aaron Koenig Releases Ska Anthem for Geeks

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Aaron makes music about meaningful topics that rocks and grooves – and sometimes it even skanks on a rock steady beat!

His new song ‘Geeks’ has been released on all major music platforms on November 15th. It is an anthem for the heroes of the digital age: computer nerds, also known as geeks. It is driven by an off-beat ska guitar, a sticky bass line and a groovy brass section. The icing on the cake is a jazzy saxophone solo.

“I have always loved Ska, I even saw the Specials, the Selecter and Madness live in their heydays”, says Aaron. “I chose the topic although I am not a geek myself, but I have a lot of sympathy for them. Geeks are often frowned upon because they can be socially awkward, but they are the ones who are building a better world. So I think they deserve an anthem.”

The music video is mostly made up of typography, minimalistic ASCII graphics and heavily pixelated images – it surely looks geeky! Watch it here:

“I just want to entertain people and make them a bit happier.”– Aaron King.

Aaron writes catchy songs that are made for people who like meaningful, uplifting topics and guitar-driven, hand-made sounds. His musical journey started young but it wasn’t until he discovered Bitcoin and became so invested in it that he used music to express his new found joy.

“It’s mostly rock music, with excursions into funk, soul and other styles I grew up with. In general, it’s guitar-driven and hand-made, often with a punkish energy and beatlesque harmonies. What all my songs have in common are meaningful lyrics about being in the here and now, about transforming disturbing emotions into wisdom, about being in the flow, things like that.” says Aaron in an interview.

“I have always been making music and writing songs, starting with a punk rock band when I was 15. However, I never saw it as a career. I played in several bands in my teenage years and my early twenties, but after my media studies in Berlin and Rio de Janeiro I focused on other things. I first worked in TV production and then founded one of the first Internet agencies in Germany. I discovered Bitcoin in 2011 and became fascinated by it. I wrote five books about it, made lots of promotional videos and educational series for Bitcoin and blockchain companies, and organised events. I even wrote some songs about Bitcoin, which became quite popular in the community, like my Reggaeton about the Bitcoin Beach in El Salvador. People always liked that my songs are catchy and provocative. It was by the end of 2023 that I decided to go full in on music. It’s what I enjoy the most, so now I want to fully follow my passion.”

Since May 2024, his songs have been streamed more than 250,000 times on Spotify and his music videos have been viewed more than 350,000 times on YouTube.

Read more about Aaron King: http://aaron-koenig.net/press/


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