Mario Quintero (Spotlights)

Today’s guest makes me believe in inevitability. Mario Quintero is the singer and guitarist for the band Spotlights. He started the band with his now wife, Sarah. They met at the studio Mario owned. But before all of that, Mario was a kid from Colombia who grew up on his sister’s albums and traditional hispanic music (like Mario Quintero Lara). He went to college for recording but veered off into the jazz program, playing guitar. After college he opened a studio, where he met Sarah and that’s where our coincidences begin. It turns out that we all not only share a wedding anniversary but also ran into each other (Mario during the last Failure tour and Sarah at the last show I saw before the pandemic, Wovenhand & Om). The pair connected and began playing together soon after. Mario talks about the band’s name, working for some amazing other bands in many different capacities, and the difficulties in keeping a full time job when you're touring with bands like The Melvins and Deftones.  Spotlights’ new album, Alchemy For The Dead, is awesome and if you like heavy, melodic music, you’re going to love it. Pick it up wherever you get your music. Follow them @spotlightsmusic on Instagram. And if you get the chance, go see them live.  You can help the show out by following us @PerformanceAnx on Twitter & Instagram. You can support us through ko-fi.com/performanceanxiety with some coffee money or by buying merch on performanceanx.threadless.com.  And I hope you enjoy Mario Quintero from the ultimate husband and wife project, Spotlights on Performance Anxiety on the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices