Gustavo Ángeles is a passionate guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer born in Mexico City. He can combine a fusion of Latin Rock musical styles, including Flamenco, Blues, Afro-Cuban and Latin American influences in his music.

The ability to play different styles has given Gustavo the opportunity to travel the world in places like Cuba, Sweden, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico,Puerto Rico, all over the East and West coast of the United States, opening for acts like Maná, Juanes, Jorge Santana, Tito Puente Jr, Ozomatli, Los Lobos,  and Arturo Sandoval, just to name a few.

In 2014, Gustavo's music was licensed for two episodes of East Los High, a five-time Emmy-nominated Hulu original series.

With a 25 year career experience, His newest musical achievements are attending the 5.0 Vai Academy in New York, where he studied with the legendary guitar virtuosos Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and Andy Timmons, he also had the opportunity to share the stage with Steve Vai, Andy Timmons and Larry Mitchell.

He studied and collaborated in the recording studio with the eminence of pre-Columbian instruments and artist, Xavier Quijas Axayotl (credits in Mel Gibson's Apocalypto), as an apprentice of the different ancient, Aztec / Meshica drums and sounds.

He participated in a guitar competition in Phoenix, Arizona, where he was chosen by the legendary Mexican Rockstars Maná as the winner and invited to perform a song with them in a packed stadium of 20,000 people at Talking Stick Arena, where he was awarded a Gibson guitar signed by the band itself.

He was selected to headline the prestigious Avondale Arizona City Festival “Bill Moore Days Festival” in 2019, as the top act to close the night and 3-day festival with great success.

He was called to play for the high-profile politician, Mike Pompeo, former Director of the CIA and Secretary of State of the United States.

In 2022, he was invited to participate in the prestigious "Mole de Mayo" festival in Chicago, representing Mexico among other artists from Colombia, Argentina, Ecuador and Spain.

 A new collaboration came to fruition with Steve Vai's backing band, Jeremy Colson (drums) and Philip Bynoe (bass) on his latest single "Eagle Warrior" (Guerrrero Aguila), where he fuses pre-Columbian sounds with Rock.

 He was nominated, and awarded with 'Nosotros Award" for best local Rock en Español Artist in September 2022 Following a live performance at the  prestigious Orpheum Theater. 

For this 2024, He's the recipient of the Artist to Work Grant from the Phoenix Department of arts and Culture , for his commitment to continous artistic growth. 

This grant fund will allow Ángeles to travel to Cuba, Mexico, and California to produce a body of original work, a music collaboration between musicians from United States, Cuba, and Mexico.