Learn about the guest musicians who helped make our debut CD, "Soul Redemption," possible.

	Abel Zarate, Guitar. Abel is well known on the Bay Area music scene for his contribution to Latin-rock band Malo. His songs appear on Malo's first and second albums and include the band's international hit "Suavecito," which he co-wrote. Abel has also recorded and performed with Pete Escovedo, Coke Escovedo, Willie Bobo, Dizzy Gillespie, and Cal Tjader, among others. Through his career he has played such notable venues as the Hollywood Bowl and Madison Square Garden, as well as the Montreux and Newport Jazz Festivals. In the mid-'90s Abel enjoyed the rekindled popularity of "Suavecito," receiving platinum and gold records for Sugar Ray's sampling of that song on "Every Morning." More about Abel
Michelle Pollace, Keyboards. Michelle brings eclectic musical experience to the Zarate Pollace Project. She studied jazz and classical piano, as well as Indonesian orchestral gamelan, at San Jose State University. After college she performed numerous concerts and recorded two CDs with Lou Harrison's internationally acclaimed Gamelan Si Betty. Michelle then ventured into popular music, recording and performing as keyboardist and bassist in projects that ran the stylistic gamut of country, folk, blues, jazz, grunge, and Latin rock. She currently is leading a piano-based Latin jazz group has co-authored a music-education book/CD set, Musicreation. More about Michelle