Sharon Aguilar
{{short description|Musician}}
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| birth_name = Sharon Isabel Borrego
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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1986}}
| birth_place = Panama
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| genre = Pop rock, rock, funk
| occupation = Musician
| instrument = Guitar, violin, mandolin
| years_active = 2008–present
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| current_member_of = Scarlet Fever
| website = {{URL|facebook.com/SharonAguilarRocks}}
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Sharon Isabel Aguilar (born 1986) is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter. She toured with 2NE1 in 2012, and has both founded and performed with several other groups.
She played lead guitar and violin with Scarlet Fever, the all-female backing band that toured with Cee Lo Green during 2010 and 2011. She and varying members of Scarlet Fever have performed with other front women as in 4D, No Salt, and Miss President.
Biography
Sharon Aguilar was born in Panama, and raised in Miami, Florida.
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|title=Interview with Sharon Aguilar: Administrator of Guitar for Miss President
|date=March 19, 2013
|first=Steve
|last=Boyd
|publisher=Guitar Girl Magazine
|accessdate=April 21, 2013
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|title=Meet Sharon Aguilar – Miami girl turned Cee-Lo's guitarist slash violinist
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|accessdate=June 30, 2011
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Her mother, Delia Aguilar-Borrego, was from Penonomé, Coclé, Panama. Her father, Richard Borrego, was an American serving there in the military.
Earlier performance credits, and occasional recent credits,
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are under the surname of Borrego.
As a teenager, she attended a magnet school music program.
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|title=Guitar Girl'd: Interview with Sharon Aguilar on CeeLo, 2NE1 and Miss President
|date=April 15, 2013
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She also attended school in Panama, living with relatives without amenities such as hot running water, refrigeration, and air conditioning.
In 2010, she attended and worked at the Musicians Institute located in Hollywood, California.
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|title = Sharon Aguilar, Brittany Brooks Land Gigs with Cee-Lo
|date = June 15, 2010
|accessdate = March 9, 2011
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= Early years =
Aguilar began playing violin at the age of 12,
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and played first violin with the Dade County Honors Orchestra, and the Greater Miami Youth Symphony.
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|url=http://www.taltopia.com/SharonAguilar
|title=Sharon Aguilar's Profile
|date=December 30, 2008
|accessdate=July 9, 2011
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She taught herself guitar and mandolin during high school.
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|url=http://www.independent.com/news/2011/may/22/cee-lo-green-guitarist-sharon-aguilar-rocks-ucsb-e/
|title=Cee Lo Green Guitarist Sharon Aguilar Rocks UCSB Extravaganza
|first=Julie
|last=Epstein
|date=May 22, 2011
|newspaper=Santa Barbara Independent
|accessdate=June 30, 2011
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She has performed in Miami at open mic venues with her sister Kristen Borrego (bass guitarist), Erika Coromina, and others.
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|url=http://www.miami.com/open-mic-miami-article
|title=Miami Open Mic Night Guide
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|last=Teal
|date=January 24, 2010
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|publisher=Miami Herald Media
|accessdate=July 2, 2011
}}
=Influences =
When she started playing guitar, Aguilar gravitated toward the classic rock her father listened to at home. A family video shows her headbanging to Led Zeppelin's "In My Time of Dying" in her playpen. She went with her father to see The Guess Who for her first concert as a teenager. Her father showed the film The Song Remains the Same, and she was inspired by watching Jimmy Page to become a professional guitarist.
Later role models include Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, "because of the way he bends his notes. I can feel them in my chest and they just really move me."
= Breakout success =
After moving in late 2007 to Los Angeles, California, Aguilar performed with several bands: Bad Apple, The Bitchfits (all girls tribute to the Misfits), The Ramonas (all girls tribute to the Ramones), and Pretty Little Problem.
Her national television debut playing a Fender electric violin backed Diddy's Dirty Money on Hello Good Morning for the March 31, 2010, American Idol.
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|title=Diddy Dirty Money on American Idol
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Aguilar also played lead guitar with Suede (of Austin, Texas) on "You Shook Me All Night Long" opening the January 29, 2011, George Lopez comedy tour in Phoenix, Arizona.
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|title=Sharon Aguilar on Guitar with Suede at George Lopez Show
|website=YouTube
|date=January 29, 2011
|accessdate=July 2, 2011
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Lopez donated proceeds from this concert to the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF).
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|date = February 21, 2011
|newspaper = Latin Heat Online
|accessdate = July 2, 2011
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= Scarlet Fever =
Beginning in June 2010, she toured with Cee Lo Green and the all-female backing band named Scarlet Fever on promotional tours for "What Part of Forever" (from The Twilight Saga: Eclipse soundtrack) and The Lady Killer album.
They performed for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,
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|title=The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
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|accessdate=February 19, 2011
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{{cite web
|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vfhph
|title=Cee Lo Green Session
|date=October 26, 2010
|work=1Xtra
|publisher=BBC
|accessdate=February 14, 2011
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|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/sessions/2010-11-03_ceelo
|title=Cee Lo in the Live Lounge
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|work=Live Lounge
|publisher=BBC
|accessdate=February 14, 2011
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Late Show with David Letterman,
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|title = Gwyneth Paltrow hosts Saturday Night Live with musical guest Cee Lo Green!
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|title = Gwyneth Paltrow & Cee Lo Green Are Game for Anything on 'Saturday Night Live'
|first = Valerie
|last = David
|date = January 18, 2011
|quote = Cee Lo Green did his own version of Robert Palmer on the "Saturday Night Live" stage, singing his hit while being backed up by a girl band dressed in tight, hot pink mini-dresses. The difference between Palmer's models and these sexy gals, however, was that Cee Lo's band "Scarlet Fever" is the real deal, rocking out on their instruments with sass and true talent.
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and many other venues. Core band members include Brittany Brooks (drums), DANiiVORY née Theresa Flaminio (keyboards, background vocals), and Regina Zernay Roberts (bass guitar, Moog synthesizer).
Members of the band continued to play together in various combinations (sometimes under other band names). Aguilar, Brooks, and DANiiVORY performed with front woman Sammy Allen at Whisky a Go Go in April 2012, where Cee Lo joined them on stage.
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|url=http://www.wherevent.com/detail/Sharon-Aguilar-Scarlet-Fever,-Cee-Lo-Green%27s-Ladykiller-band-live-with-guest-Sammy-Allen
|title=Scarlet Fever, Cee Lo Green's Ladykiller band live with guest Sammy Allen
|date=April 23, 2012
|accessdate=February 8, 2013
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= 2NE1 =
Aguilar, DANiiVORY, and Divinity Roxx backed 2NE1 on their New Evolution World Tour in 9 cities among 5 countries during 2012. Their performance at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey,
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|title=Korean Pop's Singular Mélange
|first=Jon
|last=Caramanica
|date=August 19, 2012
|newspaper=The New York Times
|accessdate=September 13, 2012
|quote=2NE1 was backed by a mostly female band, which injected flourishes of real skill amid the music's more direct demands.
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was ranked by The New York Times critics among the best concerts of the year.
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|title=Pop's Big Nights – The Best Concerts of 2012, as Seen by Times Critics
|first1=Jon
|last1=Pareles
|first2=Jon
|last2=Caramanica
|first3=Ben
|last3=Ratliff
|first4=Nate
|last4=Chinen
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|newspaper=The New York Times
|accessdate=January 22, 2013
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The concert at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles ranked No. 29 on Billboard's Current Box Score, the first K-Pop girl group to make this rank.
{{cite web
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|title = 2NE1 becomes the first K-Pop girl group to rank on Billboard's Current Box Score
|work = AllKPop
|date = September 4, 2012
|accessdate=September 4, 2012
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=Miss President=
Aguilar, Brooks, and DANiiVORY have performed with Goldielox née Brittany Burton as in 4D,
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|url=http://tomtommag.com
|title=Brittany Brooks Giving Us Fever
|first=Jenifer
|last=Ruano
|date=July 2012
|journal=Tom Tom Magazine
|issue=10
|pages=23–24
|accessdate=July 19, 2012
|archiveurl=http://tomtommag.com/2012/08/fabulous-has-a-new-name-brittany-brooks/
|archivedate=August 7, 2012
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and debuted as Miss President at Whisky a Go Go on February 10, 2013.
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|url=https://www.facebook.com/MissPresidentMusic/info
|title=Miss President – About
|website=Facebook
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|accessdate=February 15, 2013
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Their music encompasses "standard pop riffs, to neo-classical, and everything in-between." The band name was chosen as "empowering" for women, "... we can create great music just as guys do. We can do everything they do, and even better."
Discography
=Compositions=
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|title='Popstar' rehearsal
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}}{{Primary source inline|date=March 2020}} – co-written with Ashlee Williss and Britt Burton of Pretty Little Problem. Played on Hellcats during the pilot episode "A World Full of Strangers", and released on the iTunes Deluxe Edition of Fefe Dobson's album Joy.
{{cite news
|url=http://www.wetpaint.com/hellcats/articles/hellcats-music-stay-tuned-for-a-rockin-soundtrack
|title=Hellcats creator Kevin Murphy promises a soundtrack
|newspaper=Wet Paint
|date=September 17, 2010
|accessdate=September 18, 2010
}} Also featured on reality television shows Snog Marry Avoid? and American Idol.
Aguilar has made lesson contributions to websites such as Guitar Tricks, as well.
Endorsements
Although a young musician, Aguilar has garnered endorsements with
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|title = Sharon Aguilar – Fender Artists
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RainSong Graphite Guitars,{{cite web
|url = http://www.girlrocknation.com/index.php?c=artists&2=118
|title = Girl Rock Nation Artists Sharon Aguilar
|accessdate = September 30, 2011
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140121224338/http://www.girlrocknation.com/index.php?c=artists&2=118
|archive-date = January 21, 2014
|url-status = dead
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{{cite web
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|title = ENGL Professionals
|accessdate = September 30, 2011
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and Ernie Ball strings.
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|title = Ernie Ball Artists
|accessdate = September 30, 2011
|url-status = dead
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References
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{{cite web
|url=https://www.myspace.com/sharon_isabel_b
|title=Sharon – Guitar Star on Myspace
|accessdate=June 30, 2011
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{{cite web
|url=https://www.myspace.com/prettylittleproblemrocks
|title=Pretty Little Problem
|accessdate=July 2, 2011
}}{{Primary source inline|date=March 2020}}
{{cite web
|url=https://www.myspace.com/badapplerock
|title=Bad Apple
|accessdate=July 9, 2011
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External links
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Category:American women pop singers
Category:American women rock singers
Category:American rock violinists
Category:Musicians Institute alumni
Category:American women songwriters
Category:Panamanian emigrants to the United States
Category:Hispanic and Latino American musicians
Category:Scarlet Fever (band) members
Category:21st-century American women singers
Category:21st-century American singers
Category:21st-century American women guitarists