Carlos Villalobos (composer)

Carlos Jonathan VillaLobos, Jr. (born January 28, 1975) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist musician, who writes and produces original music for rock and pop artists, and composes modern orchestral music for trailers, television shows and films. Career Esperanza Esperanza is VillaLobos’s Latin-new age flamenco project, on which he performed all instruments, and engineered, recorded, produced, and mixed the albums, with guest guitarist Andre Barboza appearing on both La Esperanza and Esperanza II (2001), and bass player Rob Hagopian on the first release, La Esperanza. The group released its self-titled debut LP on the Higher Octave label on September 22, 1998. JazzTimes described the album as “swirling, fleet flamenco guitar work meets modern dance rhythms with many rewarding layers to uncover”. In 1999, the group appeared on the compilation album Chicago Rapid Transit: Grooves 99 with a remix track named “Spanish Eyes/Flamenc Tronic Mix”. The season finale of Sex and the City, “Ex and the City”, which aired on October 3, 1999, featured four Esperanza songs: “La Punta”, “El Loco”, “Love & Lust”, and “Cara Mia.” La Esperanza released Esperanza II on July 17, 2001, again