Rene Camacho

Musician · Tucson, Arizona
Best known for Bass

Rene Camacho is an acoustic and electric bassist based in Los Angeles whose work runs from Latin music and jazz to country, soul and rock. He played bass on the Haden Triplets’ self-titled 2014 album, produced by Ry Cooder.

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Originally from Tucson, Arizona, he started on trombone and switched to bass in college, earning a degree in jazz studies and composition at the University of Arizona. After moving to Los Angeles in 1996 he worked first with Latin artists, including five years with Celia Cruz and a short time with Tito Puente, and then branched out into jazz, soul, R&B, country and rock.

He has recorded or toured with Sergio Mendes, Ry Cooder, Robben Ford, Angelique Kidjo, Linda Ronstadt, Raul Malo, Rickie Lee Jones, Juan Gabriel and the Fifth Dimension, among many others, and he has toured with Kevin Eubanks, Poncho Sanchez and the band War. On The Haden Triplets he played bass with Ry Cooder on guitar and mandolin and Joachim Cooder on drums behind the sisters’ voices, with Ricky Skaggs adding mandolin on a few tracks.

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