XAXA is an up and coming singer/songwriter from South Florida, now most recently relocated to New York City. With influences in pop/rock, R&B and contemporary soul he has made a name for himself playing shows from Orlando to Miami. With his rhythmic and percussive style of guitar playing and his smooth and soulful vocals he has won people over for the past 10 years. As a child XAXA was always interested in music. His mother was a professional singer, so she introduced him to a lot of music early on. He began singing as early as 4th grade competing and winning awards (ie. Most Outstanding Soloist) in state competions. From there he was lead to musical theater where he really began to find his love for entertaining. XAXA continued with that all the way through college, graduating with a degree in musical theater. All through highschool and college he was dabbling in song writing and playing the guitar. It wasn’t until he was out of college that he got more serious about being a musician and really switched gears. XAXA started his first band “Cerveza” and they had some local success up and down the coast. It was then that he really started honing his skills playing with other musicians. Cerveza released a small self-titled EP of songs that XAXA had previously written before he started the band. After 3 or 4 years they went their separate ways and XAXA continued as a solo act. He also started sitting in with other musicians, and still does, playing world percussion. Once he was on his own musically it gave him a lot of room to expand as an artist as well as a performer.