Johnny Gi-tar

Juan Guiterrez aka Johnny Gi-tar grew up in the Coachella Valley and began playing guitar at the age of five.  He played in many local rock & roll bands until he moved to San Diego where he joined a band as a guitarist and vocalist.  He later became a soloist singing in both English and Spanish.  He then moved to the Bay Area where he became involved with the Chicano Movement as an activist working with Luis Valdez of the legendary Teatro Campesino and director of the movie, “La Bamba.”  Johnny performed for Cesar Chavez and the Farmworker movement.  He wrote and recorded, “Cumbia Morena,” which is now archived in the Arhoolie Foundation’s Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican-American Recordings.  He returned to the Coachella Valley where he has been performing at Don Diego’s of Indian Wells.