Biography
“I realized early on that music was more so my calling than my craft. That’s how it became my passion.”
Angel Ocasio, Jr. Playing Steel Guitar for HOGC, Inc. GA #2 State Assembly 2005
Musical Abilities Include:
Electric Guitar
Acoustic Guitar
Bass Guitar
Lap Steel Guitar/ Dobro
Pedal Steel Guitar
Keyboards/ Synths
Piano
Organ
Percussion
Vocals
Band Director
Band Management
Band Arrangment
Music Arrangement
Music Instruction
Music Production
Audio Engineering
Angel and his collective have Headlined for:
Cherry Blossom Festival 2024, The 10th & 11th Annual Perry NYE Buzzard Drop, Dublin’s Taste of Juneteenth 2022, 2023, & 2024, Thacker Mountain Radio Hour, Taste of Eatonton 2023, The 27th Annual Pan-African Festival, Milledgeville Main Street Celebration 2022
Angel has opened for well-known artists to include:
Patti LaBelle, Ginuwine, The O’Jays, Mother’s Finest, Pastor Troy, The Legendary Wailers, Swamp Dogg, Jill Scott, Lamar Williams, Jr., Mannie Fresh, Mali Music, Teedra, Moses, The Planet Shakers, Bone Crusher, Nelson Curry, The Swinging Medallions
He has also accompanied Well-Known artists to include:
Dante Harmon, Ryan Kilgore, Travis Greene, Roosevelt, Collier, Vickie Winans, Calvin Cooke, Robert Lee Coleman, Arthur “Bo” Ponder, Charlie Musselwhite, Albert Castiglia, Charles “CROS” Mack, Baatin Muhammad, Andrea De Luca, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Mark Lockett (The Reddings), Al Davis, Dorinda Clark-Cole, Watermelon Slim, Kierra Sheard, Dottie Peoples, Res, Angie Stone, Alex Isley, Jason Nelson, Marcus King, AJ Ghent, Mali Music, Big Mike & The Booty Poppas, The Walls Group, Myron Butler, Lawrence Flowers, Brian Michael Cox, Josh Vietti, LaRue Howard, Nyx Anayi, Lowell Pye, John Gray, James Fortune, Doug Williams (The Williams Brothers), Bob Lennon, Cherae Leri, West Byrd, Clint Brown, Issac Carree, Zacardi Cortez, Micah Stampley, Le’andria Johnson, Uncle Reece, Kevin Lemons, E. Dewey Smith, Jonathan Traylor