About

Dani Molino is an Spanish born singer-songwriter and guitarist whose music is being described as an Americana-tinged folk alt-rock wonder-tunes to both get your feet stomping and wrench your heart apart.

He was born in Madrid and soon enough music became to play an important role in his life. When he was a kid his parents used to play at home and when travelling in the car, artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Creedence Clearwater or Dire Straits. Thus, those artists became somehow the soundtrack of his childhood.

As a teenager Dani started listening other bands like AC/DC, Guns N’ Roses and specially Metallica. The latest, even though far from Dani’s current style, influenced him in such a manner that he started to teach himself how to play guitar by learning Metallica’s tunes. After a couple of years he formed his first bands (Mellow and Orion) where he was the lead guitarist. Years after, and more influenced by bands like Red Hot Chili Peppers and Incubus, he formed Oil On Canvas with his former bassist Nacho Alvarez. However this band did not last much as Dani started to be more interested in writing songs with different style more influenced by his childhood’s artists.

This represented a turning point in Dani’s musical career. From this moment Dani started writing songs in a more Folkie-Rock style, doing acoustic gigs around Madrid without any band and a year later he decided to go to Ireland to finish his last-year of degree. Thus, in 2005 Dani went to Limerick, Ireland, where he had the chance of playing at several bars and discovering new music, such as The Frames, who influenced him tremendously on the energy and the purity of Glenn Hansard’s songs.

Years after Ireland, in 2010 Dani went to London in order to study an MA in Record Production so that he could self-produce his compositions. During this time he met his current band mates Damien Thill (Drums), Inga Eichla (Bass) and Rogerio Bamman (Guitar) with home he has played at several venues in London such as The Music Hall, The Cobden Club or more recently at well know venues such as The Troubabadour or Proud Camden.

He has been recently described as “An Acoustic troubadour to set the heart racing” by the Exposure Music Awards and his music sounds like a new Nick Drake who had returned to life with an opportunity to sing about life, love, joy and depression with a shot of pure energy and honesty.