Chet Santia

Chester John Santia III, usually called simply Chet Santia, is vocalist and guitarist for the American space rock and roll group Quarkspace. Blessed in East Hartford, CT, Santia was raised over the East Coastline and begun to play electric guitar at age group 15. He initial discovered the repertoire of songwriters like Jackson Browne, Adam Taylor, and Neil Youthful. They might stamp his composing using a long lasting folk impact and tag his tone of voice with an introspective build unusual to space rockers. Santia went to university at the School of Dayton, OH, where he fulfilled Jay Swanson, Darren Gough, and Paul Williams. Jointly, they produced Quark in 1984, the prototype for Quarkspace. The guitarist had taken a few electric guitar lessons and performed frequently using the group, but he give up two years afterwards to focus on his research. He continued to execute sometimes with Quark so that as a single artist. Along with his B.A. in marketing communications at hand, he transferred to California in 1988, where he went to the Dick Grove College of Music for just one year. He transferred once again — to Santa Cruz this time around — to apprentice building guitars and violins under David John Morse for 3 years while acquiring percussion classes. In 1994, selecting it hard to produce a surviving in California, Santia transferred back again to Ohio, where he was reunited along with his university buddies. They re-formed their group, beneath the name Quarkspace, founded the label Eternity’s Jest, and started self-releasing their music. Santia’s early songwriter likes supplied a psych-folk impact that counter-balanced the trippy instrumentals of the group. Quarkspace became the primary action in the American space rock and roll community. Santia also participated in Country wide Vapor, a subgroup produced by Williams and Dave Wexler.