ELAMN 2024
DW3
Grammy Nominated vocal group DW3 (Down With 3) is today’s hardest-working band in the soul business, working fans into a dance and romance frenzy with their R&B, Old School Funk, and Smooth Jazz magic via a whirlwind of nearly 250 live performances a year around the world.
Since 2003, brothers Eric and Billy Mondragon and close family friend Damon Reel have set the high-energy mood on cruises (Smooth Jazz Cruise, Dave Koz Cruise, Soul Train Cruise & 80’s), at jazz festivals, showrooms, and clubs, including hundreds of performances at their longtime home base of Spaghettini in Seal Beach, CA. They also played a key role on Dave Koz and Friends’ Grammy-nominated Summer Horns project.
DW3 has expanded their harmonic horizons by performing with and singing background for numerous jazz and R&B legends and popular contemporary artists, including Marcus Miller, Brenda Russell, Patti Austin, Bobby Caldwell, Sheila E, Jonathan Butler, Jody Watley, Brian McKnight, David Pack, Evelyn “Champagne” King, and the late great George Duke.
The set list for DW3 offers a perfectly artful balance between smooth, seductive ballads and up-tempo dance/funk jams.
With four Billboard charting hits – including “I Got You” (featuring Gerald Albright) and “Let the Music,” “I Can’t Tell You Why,” and “California Dreamin’” from their hit 2013 and 2015 albums “On the Floor” and “Vintage Truth” – DW3 have also established themselves as a popular national recording group. The three chose to self-title their latest Woodward Avenue Records recording to reflect the culmination of their steady and inspiring evolution from ultimate, first-call party band to multi-faceted artists, songwriters, and producers fulfilling their own singular musical vision.
Hailing from East Los Angeles, Eric and Billy grew up in a musical family and began their musical career in high school. Damon, born in South Central L.A, also had musical influences by his parents.
DJ Tony
DJ Tony is one of the most popular bilingual DJs in Southern California. Born in Mexico and raised in Los Angeles, music has been a huge part of Tony’s life. From years of being in a Spanish Rock band to eventually landing behind the turntables creating unforgettable dance floor memories. Tony’s clients can’t get enough of him! He easily connects with his audience, and keeps his parties pumped and energized.
Ramon Ramirez
Ramon Ramirez is a Los Angeles-based artist with a background in architecture. He received his B.A., M.A. + M.Arch. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, the city has served as his muse from the onset. He is one of the featured artists in the book Contemporary Chicana/Chicano Artists published by the Bilingual Press at Arizona State University.
Along with galleries throughout the country, institutions that have exhibited his works include Boise State University, the Carnegie Art Museum, the Fowler Museum at UCLA, Fullerton College, the Mesa Southwest Museum in Arizona, the Monterey Museum of Art, the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, Ohio State University, Queens University at Charlotte, the Snite Museum at the University of Notre Dame, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Woodbury University, and most recently at the University of California at Irvine.
The Bilingual Press at Arizona State University, the Business Journal of Hispanic Research, New York University Press and recently UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center have published his paintings and drawings in books, journals and magazines. His work has also been featured on ABC7’s VISTA LA tv news program.
