Although an accident injured his right hand, and he was unable to pick or strum the guitar, the injury led to the development of his unique acoustic style of playing, offering a melodic, romantic sound. His ability to render single note inflections in a one of a kind patting style, generates the sound of more than one musician playing. This unique sound blends well with the smooth memorable romantic lyrics..clearly identifiable in the acoustic versions of his songs

Latest News

2008 performed "Live" at Hewlett Packard's (HP) Administrators day MAY 2008

performed "Live" in Houston at a private party 23JUN08

new CD scheduled for 04JUL08 has been delayed until JUNE 2009.

performed "Live" in BOISE IDAHO, 19JUL08

performs "Live" in Washington DC, 30OCT08

Ringtone is available

was invited back to SHANGHAI in October of 2008

performed "Live" private party in Houston 21DEC08

scheduled for Las Vegas JUL09 w/his band

scheduled for Plano Texas, OCT09

EMP_E2

EMP_E2 was born into a military family on Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. While growing up in Taipei, Taiwan, he started playing guitar and performing in teenage bands. Throughout his adult life he has enjoyed singing, songwriting and producing music. Although an accident injured his right hand, and he was unable to pick or strum the guitar, the injury led to the development of his unique acoustic style of playing, offering a melodic, romantic sound. His ability to render single note inflections in a one of a kind patting style, generates the sound of more than one musician playing. This unique sound blends well with the smooth memorable romantic lyrics..clearly identifiable in the acoustic versions of his songs.....enjoy.

His career highlights include:

- Received his first BMI Royalty check in 2005

- Has two Houston bands playing his original Music (Chris and Trevor; Phil Johnson and Rush Hour)

- Fidel Hernandez, (breakout artist with Broken Bow Records), expressed an interest in using one of his songs on a song project 2006

- Has had two songs forwarded by TAXI to Joanne Ledesma's A&R company in California 2007

- Submitted original songs for consideration by Grey's Anatomy, during the MIDEM 2007 music convention

- Submitted an original song to American Idol

- Performed Live at the world famous Blue Bird Cafe-twice (Nashville) 2006

- Performed Live at the world famous Legends Open Mic (Nashville) 2006

- Performed Live at the world famous Lyrix Open Mic (Nashville) 2006

- Performed live in Los Angeles at the 2006 TAXI A&R Convention

- Performed live at the Hyatt DFW
in 2007

- Performed Live on a Carnival Cruise in 2007

- Performed Live in Shanghai at the 2007 9th Annual Performing Art's Festival

- Performed on the 2007 road trip in support of the OVERSEAS BRATS (Oklahoma, California, Arizona and Texas)

- Was the Lead Singer in the
infamous Kubasaki High School '60's Rock and Soul Band "THE DUST" - Has performed Live with "THE DUST" in Hawaii and Las Vegas in 2000 thru 2006

- Released his FIRST CD..."INTRODUCTION"...displaying his songwriting, producing and arranging skills in JULY 2007

- Has a RINGTONE under "links" on his home page - http://www.myxertones.com/tag/170157/

- Performed Live at Hewlett Packard "Administrators Day" April 2008

- Performed Live in Boise, Idaho in July 2008

- Second CD...."ACOUSTICAL DREAMS"...scheduled for release in June 2009

- Had four instrumentals in heavy rotation as background music on CTV16 a local TV station since September 2008.

- Submitted five songs in September 2008 to the Canadian Idol Winner for an upcoming album

- Submitted a request to play live at MIDEM 2009 in Cannes, France..

- Scheduled to perform on the 2009 road trip in support of the OVERSEAS BRATS (Oklahoma, California, Arizona and Texas)

- Scheduled to perform in 2009 in Merrick Long Island, New York

- Scheduled to perform in 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada

- Scheduled to perform at the Overseas Brats Gathering 2009 Plano Texas