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Artist
Julio Rey
12+ albums
Lo-Fipunk
about
Julio Rey is both a veteran and a pioneer of the alternative Christian rock arena. His quest for self-expression has taken him from his 1982 lo-fi garage Unrehearsed Walk EP, to pop punk with the Visitors in 1983, to the barrier-crashing hardcore and thrash of the Lead in the mid-to-late 1980s, to the no-holds-barred grindcore and hardcore experimentations of Frank's Enemy in the 1990s. Julio Rey cites watching the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show as the moment he got hooked on rock and roll. "I wasn't four years old yet," he says. "I remember playing a toy 'Beatles' guitar to family members in our apartment in New York. I raked the toy guitar and sang along to my two Beatles records." At 14, he took up the guitar and wrote his first song; at 16, he became a Christian; at 18, he got an electric guitar and amp and proceeded to blow the amp’s speaker within eight months; at 19, he discovered Christian rock in the forms of Larry Norman and Resurrection Band and wrote his first Christian song; at 20, he was ready to join a group. Rey joined a church band in 1980 and made his live debut in October of that year. Soon the band was playing rock sets on the side featuring several Rey originals. Two years later, Rey released the Unrehearsed Walk EP and formed the prototypical Christian pop-punk band the Visitors. In 1982, Julio Rey became friends with a coworker and fellow student of the University of Miami named Nina Llopis. Llopis played guitar and had sung in several cover bands,
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