Roberto Montero

Born in a small city in south Brazil, Roberto Montero was surrounded by music. His mother, Irene Bertoli was herself an accomplished musician, an outstanding painter and (as Roberto says) a great listener for those times when he would sit in the kitchen playing the same song over and over.

Roberto's father, Endo Montero, an accomplished and respected guitarist in Brazil, taught Roberto his most important music lesson: Play it with your heart.

"There were always musicians coming in and out of our house," says Roberto. "I would watch and listen."

Even though Roberto was surrounded by traditional Brazilian, jazz, and classical music, oddly enough, it was the rock band AC/DC and their album "Back in Black" that gave him the passion to seriously dedicate himself to the guitar at the age of fifteen. Joining his brother Endo Luiz, the band "Voodoo" became his first rock group. "I learned everything by ear," Roberto remembers, "It was a magical time."

Roberto then came back to his roots incorporating Brazilian music and jazz, as he found, again, that his heart told him the music he must play.

While working and performing in Brazil for the next few years, Roberto was responsible for over 200 radio and television jingles as composer, arranger and performer.

"I even arranged the music for a senatorial campaign and the candidate was elected!" he laughs.

Coming to Los Angeles, California, Roberto landed an audition for Grammy Award winner Sergio Mendes' Brazil 2001 and spent the next year on tour from the Blue Note in Tokyo, Japan to the Moroccan Royal House in Morocco and across the United States. His U.S. concerts include the Radisson Concert Hall in Phoenix, Arizona, the Atlanta Summer Concert in Atlanta, Georgia. the Sun Theater in Anaheim, California and the Union Station Foundation Concert Series in Pasadena, California.

After a year with Sergio Mendes, Roberto became a much-requested musician. He has performed with Latin Grammy nominated Brazilian pop star Baby Consuelo and with four-time Grammy nominated European MTV Award's Best Italian Artist, Tiziano Ferro.

In Las Vegas, Roberto performed with world famous Persian singer/songwriter Siavash at the Rio Hotel and with internationally known Israeli singer Dudu Fisher at the Bellagio.

Roberto is honored to have been chosen as a Yamaha endorsed musician and uses Whirlwind SELECTORS, DIs and LEADER cables.