about Len

Len Galasso was born in 1957 in an old hospital on Temple Street in Los Angeles, California, when the basin was filled daily with the acrid smoke from a million incinerators and two and a half million cars.  His folks--second generation Italian-American transplants from the East coast settled in Culver City, but decided Orange County was where their future lay when the small electronics firm, where dad was employed, relocated from a tiny downtown-LA storefront to an orange grove in Santa Ana.   

Len has lived, been educated, worked, and raised a family in Southern California, retiring in 2019, the last 37 years of which as a senior/principal electronic engineer/programmer for companies you probably know.  He has several patents, mostly in the field of cryptography.  

Beginning in the 3rd grade, Len was trained in music in the public schools of the Newport Mesa School District by music educator, Jim Guy, and was active in band in both elementary and middle school, playing clarinet. In 1973 he traded his clarinet for an electric guitar at the store, from which his folks had rented the instrument (a very nice plastic Bundy) for five dollars a month until it was paid off.  The inexpensive, Japanese electric guitar (an Ariel) was his axe until he began to teach himself piano around 1977, using OPIs (Other People's Instruments) until he could afford his own rig--a vintage (very heavily used) Farfisa combo organ, which he played for several years until 1981, when it and the rest of his equipment was stolen from his vehicle.  Music was put on hold while school, career and raising a family took precedence.   

Since his post-student days--and several keyboards later--he has been active as a semi-professional musician, composer/arranger and sometime singer with a handful of performing bands.    In January 2003, with his jazz quartet Breakpoint, he played the famous Coachhouse, in San Juan Capistrano.

Since 2020, he has focused on producing other musical artists and his own solo music projects as well as various types of pro bono work.