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Brian Tarquin

Host of GUITAR TRAX

Brian Tarquin is an American multi-Emmy Award winning guitarist/composer and the producer of the Guitar Masters Series featuring Jeff Beck, Steve Vai, Jimmy Page, Santana, BB King and Joe Satriani. Also known for his work as a Smooth Jazz artist and a music composer receiving 3 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series and also received Emmy nominations in 2001, 2002 and 2004. Tarquin has sold more than 150,000 albums through his career in the USA. He wrote the theme music for MTV's Road Rules, as well as producing music for many other TV shows such as "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation", "TMZ on TV", America's Next Top Model, ABC's Making The Band, Extra, Alias and the Keanu Reeves film The Watcher. In 2014, Tarquin produced, engineered and composed Guitars For Wounded Warriors, which showcases Tarquin’s guitar prowess along side such world-class shredders as, Steve Morse, Billy Sheehan, Gary Hoey, Bumblefoot (Guns N' Roses), Reb Beach (Whitesnake), Hal Lindes (Dire Straits), Chris Poland (Megadeth) and Chuck Loeb (Fourplay). The album features exclusively released tracks inspired by those military soldiers who fought for our country and released by Cleopatra Records.

Brian has recently located to Brevard County with his family and has opened Jungle Room Studios.