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Jos Luis de Castro (Madrid, February 28th, 1974), best known as Jos de Castro and Jopi, is a Spanish guitarist, producer and musical director. Nowadays, he is playing with the band that accompanies the Spanish singer Melendi. From the city of Legans, in Madrid, he started in music studying classic guitar, solfeo and coral, moreover other music-related topics. When he was seventeen, Jos changed to electric guitar studies and started playing with a hard rock band called Reina de Corazones, where he played with the vocalist Ignacio Prieto (Eden Lost, Atlas) and the drummer Antonio Alcoba (Beethoven R.). With them, he recorded six MAQUETAS and played all around different cities in Spain between 1992 and 1996. They won the Villa de Madrid contest in...... Afterwards, he worked as guitarist in several orchestras and bands, combining it and working also as a teacher in Ritmo y Comps and other music schools, until 2002. In 2002, his first instrumental album was released, called Un poco de lo Mo, written, edited and produced by himself. Working with him, were the musicians Alex Garca as bass and Manu Rey as drum. Un poco de lo mo mixed rock sounds with other styles as funk, pop or fusion among others, and received really good critics by the Spanish and international press. In 2004 Jos recorded his second album, Music Guitar Box, where he was surrounded with great musicians as Simon Phillips and Melvin Lee Davis, and other musicians from the Spanish scene as Maurizio Sgaramella, Denis Bilanin and Enzo Filippone. In 2006 his third work was released Conversation. In this album, Jos played again with Melvin Lee Davis, Denis Bilanin and Enzo Filippone, also with Jos Vera playing the bass and Iaki Quijano playing keyboards. In 2009 the first live album was released, the fourth one, recoded during two concerts in his hometown Legans on 21st and 22nd November 2007. LIVE was the title being a double CD, where, once again, Enzo Filiponne and Jos Vera, along with Alexis Fernandez, played with him. In 2012 his fifth work was released with the name of Moments, and again working with Enzo Filippone and Jos Vera. This is the first album that is recorded in his own studio JDC ESTUDIOS. The mixes were made by Ron Saint Germain and the mastering by Joe Gastwirt. From 2010, Jos has his own recording studio JDC ESTUDIOS in his hometown Legans where he produces great amount of recordings and productions to different artists and bands. With his own music, he has shared stage with guitarists as Joe Satriani, Michael Landau, Scott Henderson, Paul Gilbert, Guthrie Govan, Richard Hallebeck, Reb Beach, Mattias IA Eklundh among others great guitarists. He has worked with many artists, as a guitarist and as a producer. Chenoa, Mal, Mnica Naranjo and Melendi are some of the artists in the Spanish scene he has worked with. Since 2012, Jose is an artist of the prestigious brand Fender. In November 2012 the first book Guitarra para torpes written by him was published. The book is edited by Editorial Anaya and belongs to the collection para torpes (For Dummies) with illustrations by Forges.