Brandon Payton-Carrillo is a bilingual songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and visionary artist pushing the boundaries of Latin Alternative music. Blending elements of shoegaze, Afro-Latin rhythms, and electronic textures, Brandon crafts immersive sonic landscapes that explore themes of love, searching, travel, and solidarity.

Through recent releases such as the “All Night” EP in 2023 and “Amor Verdadero” in 2021, Brandon has fused his vision of cultural interplay and collaboration into a vibrant sound onto itself.  Some of the recent standout tracks include “Amor Verdadero”, “Dime otra vez” and “Confessions” to name a few.

Over the years, Brandon Payton-Carrillo has collaborated with such musicians as Soul Legend Harvey Scales, Pearl Livingston, Apollo Mighty, Kristen Englenz, Danny Slor of Marbin, Angel Bat Dawid and James Tristan Redding.

In 2017, Brandon Payton-Carrillo founded the Hyde Park School of Music to provide music instruction to the underserved South Side of Chicago. The Hyde Park School of Music’s mission is part of Brandon Payton-Carrillo’s vision of spreading love and solidarity to people who’s voice is often ignored.
Hyde Park School of Music

In November of 2023, Brandon Payton-Carrillo founded Otoñofest MKE, Milwaukee’s first Latin Alternative music festival.Bands that performed that day were Pulpa de Guayaba, Alyssia Dominquez, Izchelita, and Tlalok Rodgriguez.