Born in San Carlos, Cojedes state (Venezuela) on the 21st of December 1975. As a child he started playing the "Cuatro" and then he spent some years studying the Venezuelan "Arpa" but It was the guitar the instrument that caught really his attention at the end, with the guitar Jose Carmelo has me his music career. He attended the music conservatory in Carabobo state (Venezuela) and also got a guitar degree from "Tecnologico de Musica de Valencia". Jose Carmelo has been taught by the finest Venezuelan and foreign instructors, Franco Nasi, Juan C. Moreno, Miguel Gonzalez, Julio Mendoza, Leo Quintero, Steve Khan and Otmaro Ruiz among others. Jose Carmelo has been referred as one of the finest guitarist of Venezuela. As a soloist he has in his curriculum his first production called "Horizontes" which shows his talent not only as a performer but as a composer and arranger as well, mixing elements from pop, jazz, rock and venezuelan folk music he proves to be a musician in constant motion and evolution. He is part of GUACO since 2002.