Stevie Salas

 

 

Special recognition was given to guitarist /musician/producer Stevie Salas at this year’s NAMMYS. Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, Stevie Salas, is an American born rock guitarist of Apache descent.

With humble beginnings, Salas’ unique heavy funk/rock guitar styling’s quickly helped him make a name for himself in music industry circles in the late 1980’s. After twenty years in the business, Salas’ talent and swagger have earned him great respect in the music world as a studio and concert musician.

He has recorded, toured with, written, produced and directed many record industry greats including; Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart, George Clinton and Justin Timberlake. As a producer Salas has worked on many global superstar projects including the 1989 classic “What Up Dog” by Was (Not Was) which Rolling Stone Magazine named one of the top 100 records of the decade.

As a film composer he has scored many films and TV shows but he is best known for the guitar score to the cult classic “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” where he not only scored but he also appears as the hands of George Carlin in the famed wild guitar solo ending. Aside from the work he does live and in the studio, Salas also tours the world as a solo artist, often playing sold out concerts and festivals in the UK , Europe and Asia and has sold two million solo records around the world. He has won many awards including a Native American Music Award for Best Rock Recording in 2008.

 

 

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