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Marc Bonilla is a journeyman rock guitarist and session musician based in Los Angeles, CA. After moving down from the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1980s and working as a teacher at the Guitar Institute of Technology, he first gained attention as a touring member of the band
Toy Matinee in 1991, leading to his signing to Reprise Records as a solo artist and releasing two albums,
EE Ticket (June 1991) and
American Matador (1993). He was a member of the short-lived successor band to
Toy Matinee,
3rd Matinee, appearing on the group's only album,
Meanwhile (1994). He worked with former
Deep Purple singer
Glenn Hughes (who had appeared on
American Matador) on
Hughes' solo album
Addiction (1997), co-writing many of its songs, and appeared on and wrote a song for the 1999 follow-up
The Way It Is. In 2000, he appeared on and wrote music for comedian
Bobby Gaylor's album
Fuzzatonic Scream. He was a member of
California Transit Authority, a band founded by former
Chicago drummer
Danny Seraphine, and appeared on the group's album
Full Circle (2006). His work with keyboardist
Keith Emerson of
Emerson, Lake & Palmer included the 2009 album Keith Emerson Band Featuring Marc Bonilla.
Bonilla has also worked extensively as a performer and composer in television and motion pictures, including the feature films American Heart (1992), Diggstown (1992), Terminal Velocity (1994), Caught Up (1998), Inferno (1999), Road Kill (1999), The Replacements (2000), Mother Ghost (2002), The Eavesdropper (2004), White Rainbow (2005), and Mad Money (2008). In television, he earned a Daytime Emmy Award nomination in 2001 for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music for the series Big Apple. ~ William Ruhlmann