Cole Menarez' music explores the core of what makes life meaningful to all people - passion, wisdom, and the sacred.

Simple melodies with a heavy load to bear might sum up the music. Cash and Wilco have surfaced as comparisons.

Cole Menarez Bio Sketch

Cole Menarez, is a cultural anthropologist, and a searcher by nature. His music explores the core of what makes life meaningful to all people - the sacred, passion, wisdom, and the sacred. "Everyone one's life is about dealing with family, faith, love and pain". His music captures these struggles.

Power brokers, peasant mothers, and shamans have all shaped his life and the music:
"Life has blessed me with some basic convictions - you must fight for your daily bread, hold fast to your faith and your dreams, and thrive on moments of inspiration. I have no choice. I've done wrong too often and known better for too long to live any other way. My music is my reckoning".

Above all, Cole's stories and confessionals seem devoted to guide the listener's soul toward divine light. His influences come from his upbringing - As a boy, Cole lived off and on with his grandmother in rural Madison County in western NC. He learned about the "high lonesome" music of her native Appalachia, as a refuge and a comfort to be shared.

By contrast, as a native son of Galicia, Spain, his songs express tension and conviction, and often demand from the listener, the Iberian's passion for taking action and a commitment to tough love.

Simple melodies with a heavy load to bear might sum up the music. Cash, Wilco, and Diamond have surfaced as comparisons. For certain, Cole Menarez' performances are an almost reckless commitment to giving up his ghost to the living and the dead.