Chino Moreno
62

Chino Moreno

Chino Moreno (born Camillo Wong Moreno; June 20, 1973) is an American musician. He is best known as the lead singer and contributing guitarist of ... More »Chino Moreno (born Camillo Wong Moreno; June 20, 1973) is an American musician. He is best known as the lead singer and contributing guitarist of Deftones. He is also a member of the side-project bands Team Sleep and Crosses. Moreno is well known for his distinctive screams, as well as his soothing tenor voice while singing melodically. In 2007, he was placed at number 51 in Hit Parader's "Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time". Moreno was born in Sacramento, California to a Mexican father and a Spanish/Chinese mother; the latter being the origin of his Spanish nickname Chino, which means "Chinese" in Spanish. He was the third of five children. He attended McClatchy High School, where he met Abe Cunningham and Stephen Carpenter, with whom he founded Deftones in 1988. Before becoming a professional musician, Moreno had a day job at Tower Records' shipping department. In relation to his often ambiguous yet image-heavy poetic lyrics, Moreno quotes: "[Sometimes] my lyrics don't deal with... [ Wikipedia ]

Show:
Did we miss something?
Submit Article

Deftones’ Chino Moreno Hunted Down In ‘Swerve City’ Video

A car races by on a nearby highway with frontman Chino Moreno at the wheel. Beating the singer to a desert house, she greets him with an unexpected gift. Speaking to KROQ/ Los Angeles about Koi No Yokan, Moreno explained that after Chi Cheng’s 2008 accident left him in a coma that ...

Deftones to Revive Shelved 'Eros' Album

Deftones frontman Chino Moreno says their shelved 2008 album "Eros" will finally see the light of day. The band were midway through recording the album when bassist Chi Cheng was seriously injured in a car crash. They scrapped the album and went on to record "Diamond Eyes" with stand-in ...

Steve Masters’ Modern Mix Song Of The Day

5 hours ago Deftones’ Chino Moreno Hunted Down In ‘Swerve City’ Video --- WATCH: cbsloc.al/10eun6A 18 hours ago ...

Watch the New Deftones Video for 'Swerve City'

Director Gus Black has filmed a simple video; the model Tammy is seen riding a horse through the desert, and eventually meets singer Chino Moreno in the dark. Make what you will of that. Deftones will be hitting the road from tomorrow for a few months, starting in Japan and making their ...

Watch Deftones' Wild West-Inspired 'Swerve City' Video

Never mind that nothing actually happens, at least not until Deftones frontman Chino Moreno shows up at the very end and... well, we won't give it away...

Chino Moreno Says Deftones Now More Likely to Release ‘Eros’ @ Antiquiet

In a red carpet chat before last week’s Revolver Golden Gods Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, Deftones front man Chino Moreno dropped some intriguing hints that the band may be thinking that it’s time to release Eros, the unreleased album they worked on before Chi Cheng’s car accident in ...

Deftones Consider Releasing Shelved ‘Eros’ Album In Memory Of Chi Cheng

Put on the backburner in favour of another album to feature their new drummer Sergio Vega, Eros never quite made it to completion, but according to vocalist Chino Moreno it could soon happen. At the Revolver Golden God Awards Moreno noted, “I think [the chances of that happening are] ...

Horns Up Rocks: DEFTONES To Release 'Eros', Chi Cheng's Very Last Recordings With The Band!

Chino Moreno had just left the studio after recording his vocal tracks for 'Eros' and was about half-way done with all songs on the album when the accident occurred. Following the accident, the band decided to not release the album because they wanted to release a better record. They ...

Never-Before-Heard Deftones Album 'Eros' To Be Released -

In an interview with Artisan News at the Revolver Golden Gods Awards ceremony, Deftones vocalist Chino Moreno gave an update about Eros, the unreleased album that features the last works of bassist Chi Cheng before the terrible auto accident that left him in a coma for over four years ...

Carolina Rebellion: Not with a whisper, but with a scream

Headed by the magnetic and enigmatic Chino Moreno, Deftones delivered a set that had their loyal disciples literally flocking towards the stage in drones. Featuring some the craziest and most rampant crowd surfing of the day, Deftones riveted the crowd to new heights and incited hysteria ...

PALMS (FEATURING CHINO MORENO OF DEFTONES AND MEMBERS OF ISIS) ANNOUNCE ALBUM

Chino Moreno is a busy dude. Not only does he front the always busy and internationally huge rock band Deftones, last year he released an EP with his Crosses project (featuring Shaun Lopez of Far and Chuck Doom) and joined a newly formed band called Palms with three members of ...

Memphis in May: Beale Street Music Festival Review Friday May 3, 2013

Deftones - The Deftones continue to craft a unique form of hard rock that blends the worlds of metal and shoegazer flawlessly underneath vocals from frontman Chino Moreno that, whether a death metal scream, subdued hush or series of nu-metal raps, remain incredibly passionate at all ...

MetalSucks In Which We Contemplated a Counter-Protest

Chino Moreno revealed that the Deftones’ long lost final album with Chi Cheng, Eros, may finally be released. On the eve of Lamb of God’s first tour since his acquittal, Randy Blythe reminded fans to be safe out there. Chelsea Grin’s bassist solicited $2,300 from fans to pay for surgery ...

Palms (Deftones, Isis) detail self-titled debut

Posted by aubin on Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 2:30 PM (EDT) Palms, the group featuring Chino Moreno of The Deftones and Jeff Caxide, Aaron Harris and Bryant Clifford Meyer of Isis, have released the track listing and some more details about their upcoming debut. The album features six ...

Palms (Featuring Members Of Deftones And ISIS) Unveil Album Artwork And Track List -

Palms features Deftones singer Chino Moreno as well as ex-ISIS members Jeff Caxide, Aaron Harris, and Clifford Meyer. Head on below for the cover, the track list, and a stream of their song “Patagonia”...

Supergroup PALMS (DEFTONES, ISIS) Reveals Album Artwork And Track List

Posted by Greg Kennelty on May 15, 2013 Palms, featuring vocalist Chino Moreno of Deftones and bassist Jeff Caxide, drummer Aaron Harris and guitarist Bryant Clifford Meyer from Isis, are all set to drop their debut on the world! The only thing left now is all the music. Oh man, Palms ...

Palms Reveal Debut LP’s Track Listing, Cover

Palms, as you well know, boasts most of Isis with Deftones frontman Chino Moreno. The band’s debut will boast six tracks, each one long as hell. Chris Harris is an internationally-published music journalist and writer whose work has appeared on the pages of Rolling Stone, IFC.com...

DEFTONES Plan To Release Last Recording With CHI CHENG

When asked about it at the Golden Gods Awards Show, singer Chino Moreno said- It will, I think more so now probably than ever. I actually went back and listened to some of it recently and… you know, I don’t know, when or, you know… but I feel it’s a little more appropriate now for us to ...

Where The Skeletons Play

The opening track Perspex Queen is the first taste of the brilliant vocals mixing influences from Tool's Maynard Kennan and Deftones' Chino Moreno. This comes on top of the foundations of the track which feels like this slow, heavy beast brewing along, building up towards for rest of the ...

Interview: Stone Sour, In This Moment, and Hell or Highwater Talk Road to the Golden Gods Tour

Deftones’ Chino Moreno joined a bloodied Dillinger Escape Plan for a metallized rendition of Depeche Mode’s “Behind the Wheel.” Members of Slipknot appeared with Stone Sour as they cranked out Black Sabbath’s “Children of the Grave.” And David Draiman, of Disturbed and Device, took the ...

Freebase CC-BY
Public figures images from Freebase, licensed under CC-BY
Bios from Wikipedia, licensed under the GFDL
Follow Newsle: