KID CARLOS IS UNDOUBTEDLY AN EMBLEMATIC MUSICIAN. INTROVERTED, UNASSUMING, AND AN EXCEPTIONAL GUITARIST. HE IS ONLY INTERESTED IN HIS GUITAR AND HIS MUSIC: THE BLUES IN ITS PUREST FORM. HE IS FROM SEVILLE, IN SOUTHERN SPAIN AND ONE OF THE CRADLES OF FLAMENCO, A PLACE WHERE THE BLUES HAS ITS OWN RIVER AND FROM WHOSE BANKS THE BLUES FIRST BEGAN TO BE HEARD IN SPAIN. CARLOS FOUNDED THE KID CARLOS BAND IN 2007 AND RELEASED HIS FIRST ALBUM, “TALKIN’ BUT THE BLUES,” NOW OUT OF PRINT. AFTER YEARS OF LEARNING AND LIFE ON THE ROAD, THE LEGENDARY BRITISH BLUES PRODUCER MIKE VERNON (WHO PASSED AWAY ON MARCH 2) INVITED HIM TO JOIN HIS PROJECT THE MIGHTY COMBO, WITH WHOM HE RECORDED TWO MAGNIFICENT ALBUMS. WITH HIS INSEPARABLE BANDMATES, VOCALIST TXACO JONES, BASSIST LALU CORDÓN, AND DRUMMER STEFANO DI RUBBO, KID CARLOS BAND HAS RELEASED FOUR ALBUMS AND PERFORMED IN CLUBS AND FESTIVALS THROUGHOUT SPAIN AND ACROSS THE REST OF EUROPE. TOGETHER WITH QUIQUE BONAL, ANOTHER LEADING BLUES GUITARIST IN SPAIN, HE RELEASED THE INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM “FANGO” IN 2018. LATER, HIS FRIENDSHIP WITH THE EUROPEAN HARMONICA LEGEND MINGO BALAGUER - A PIONEER OF THE GENRE IN SPAIN - LED BALAGUER TO INVITE HIM TO BE THE GUITARIST ON HIS ALBUM “BLUESHADOW,” ONE OF THE BEST BLUES RECORDS RELEASED IN SPAIN IN RECENT YEARS. FINALLY, MIKE VERNON PROPOSED A NEW PROJECT TO KID CALLED CAT SQUIRREL. WITH THE ADDITION OF MINGO BALAGUER HIMSELF, THEY RECORDED A MUSICAL MILESTONE TITLED “BLUES WHAT AM,” WHICH IS ALREADY PART OF THE ESSENTIAL CANON OF BLUES IN SPAIN. CARLOS’S MOST RECENT COLLABORATION CAN BE FOUND ON THE 2025 ALBUM “WE LIKE TO GROOVE” BY BLUES AND BOOGIE PIANIST LLUÍS COLOMA AND THE ALSO LEGENDARY SAXOPHONIST LOU MARINI. THERE MAY BE MORE TENACIOUS GUITARISTS THAN CARLOS IN EUROPE, BUT NONE CAPABLE OF CONVEYING THEIR MUSIC WITH THE SINCERITY AND GENEROSITY WITH WHICH KID CARLOS PLAYS HIS GUITAR. DON'T LOOK FOR IT, YOU WON'T FIND IT.