Silas Silva: Born and raised in Brazil, in a culturally diverse environment, Silas Silva started playing at age seven, and it was obvious at this early age that he was born to do it. At 14 he was already a recognized face in the music scene, having performed with Claudio Celso, Glecio Nascimento, Kleber Lucas, Daniel de Souza, Marquinhos Gomes, Paulo do Espirito Santo Abraham Laboriel (Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson) Justo Almario (Jennifer Lopez) Rique Pantoja (Alejandro Sanz, Gal Costa, Chet Baker), Joe Fitzgerald, Bob Quaranta, Emanuel and the Fear, Louis Simao, Bill Mcbirnie among others. In 2006, in order to shape and refine his musicality, Silas enrolled at Drummers Collective (one of the world's premier music schools) studying with the likes of Ian Froman, Peter Retzlaff, Jason Gianni, Mark Flynn, Frank Katz, Pat Petrillo, Marko Djordjevic, and Guy Licata.

Louis Simão: Born and raised in Toronto, Louis Simão has been performing and recording as a multi-instrumentalist in Canada, the U.S. and Europe for over a decade. Performing on bass, piano, accordion, guitar, vocals, pandeiro, surdo and cavaquinho, his love for music allows him to move freely through genres. Louis has studied jazz piano and acoustic bass in his hometown at York University, and abroad with bossa nova guitarist Alfredo Machado at Escola de Música Vila Lobos in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has also been to Santiago, Cuba, Essaouira and Marrakesh, Morocco, and Lisbon, Portugal - his parent's home country - to study the local music. Simão's diverse and highly sought after skills have afforded him the opportunity to perform and record in Canada and Europe with talented artists such as, Nelly Furtado, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Eliana Cuevas, Michael Occipinti, The Clayton/Scott Group, Fourteen Remembered, and Fritz McIntyre of Simply Red. He also leads, writes and arranges for his own reputable world-music ensemble, Pedras da Rua, which has opened for Cesaria Evora and Celso Machado, been featured on CBC Radio's Bandwith One, and has also shared a night with Brazilian reggae stars Chico Cesar and Rita Ribeiro at The Blueprints Arts Festival 2000, the performance of which became the subject of a documentary for Bravo's Centre Stage Chronicles. A remix of Pedras da Rua's "Terra do Bravo" is also featured on Required Listening Vol. #1, voted best Toronto disc of 2003 by NOW Magazine.

Gordon Sheard has enjoyed a many-faceted career as a professional musician for three decades, touring with the bands Manteca, Rick Shadrach Lazar and The Montuno Police, and Montreal bassist Alain Caron's Le Band, among others. From 1984 to 1987 he toured extensively with fluegelhornist/composer Chuck Mangione in the United States, Canada, South America, and the Caribbean. He has also worked with Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, Steve Gadd, David Garibaldi, Steve Ferrone, Lew Soloff, Eddie ‘Cleanhead’ Vinson, and Slim Gaillard and in musical theatre settings. 

As a composer, his music can be heard on his 2006 CD Crucible, on two CDs on the Avalon label – Martini Lounge (1998) and Romance of Rio (1997), as well as on recordings by Phil Dwyer, Rick Shadrach Lazar and The Montuno Police, and Manteca. He has worked as producer and composer for television and radio commercials, films, and audio-visual productions since the late 1980s.

As a studio pianist/keyboardist, he has worked with Lorraine Segato (formerly of Parachute Club), Rita McNeil, Liona Boyd, Louise Pitre, Eliana Cuevas, Yvette Tollar, Carol Welsman, Brian Hughes, Stan Samole, Levon Ichkhanian, Terry Kelly, and Ron Hines, among others.