Oceanside native Stevie Salas be honored Tuesday as the 2024 San Diego Music Awards Country Dick Montana Lifetime Achievement Award recipient.
Three years before whiz kid guitarist Stevie Salas moved from Carlsbad to Los Angeles in 1985 to seek fame and fortune as a musician, he vowed he would one day perform with Rod Stewart, Mick Jagger and David Bowie. Four years later, Salas was on stage with Stewart at the San Diego Sports Arena, where the homegrown six-string ace received a returning hero's welcome from the sold-out crowd.
Salas recently returned from visits to Toronto and Cannes, France, where he drummed up interest for his two latest film projects. 'I'm living proof that anything is possible,' he said. 'I'm not that great a guitarist and I'm not that smart. You've gotta get lucky, and you just have to visualize yourself there and do it.' It was Salas' vision that compelled him to leave This Kids, the band he formed while attending high school, and move to Los Angeles in 1985.
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