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Michael Aquino

Michael Aquino is an award-winning Cuba-Rican sound designer, composer, audio engineer, musician, and performer born in Union City, New Jersey. He co-founded Cocotazo Media, which produces fiction podcasts, music, and educational audio resources. Michael is the sound designer, composer, and audio engineer for their award-winning audio drama series Timestorm. Michael also co-produced two benefit albums - Stuff This in Yer Face! and New Year | Año Nuevo - with You Don't Know Jersey. Aquino's debut solo album, Giants Will Fall, was released in October 2015. His follow-up EP, City Stars in 2017. He received two 2017 Audio Verse Awards for Best Music, Self-Contained Dramatic Production and Best Audio Engineering, Self-Contained Comedic Production and a 2019 Audio Verse Award for Best Vocal Composition in a New Production (Timestorm). Michael received a 2013 Jersey Acoustic Music Award nomination for Top Male Songwriter.