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Juan Carlos Arroyo (born June 5, 1963) is an Peruvian guitar virtuoso and songwriter. He best known as a founding member of the progressive metal band Gangster, Random Thoughts. With his former band mate and brother Cesar Arroyo, he has produced all his albums since their 1997 release, Amazon, New York and Wild colors. Arroyo also played at the open Soccer Game inauguration for the Silverbacks in Atlanta GA. Juan Carlos Arroyo was born on June 5, 1963 in Chucuito-Lima Peru to a Peruvian family Aurelio Valentin Arroyo and Olinda Lynch Iglecias. He is the oldest brother of Cesar Augusto Arroyo, Ana Maria Smith and Jorge Luis Arroyo. He picked up the guitar at the age of eight, and he has never stopped playing until now. He played with his brother Cesar Augusto Arroyo during their Mid-School and High School in which they successfully won many School competitions, at that time both were in San Jose Marists. He picked up the electric guitar at the age of 13, when his childhood friends and brother played together in their neighborhood.

Juan Carlos and his family Immigrated to the US in 1982 and their first stop was New York. Juan Carlos didn't touch a guitar during this transition and bought his guitar not until 1984 when his family decided to move to Athens Georgia.

Juan Carlos and his brother Cesar then decided to form a Rock band after they bought all the equipment they needed to start. They meet Derek Nunally a former guitar player that played with Mike Stipe (REM) and they were part of Gangster (1985). In 1996 Juan Carlos moved to Denver to be part of a Business Rock band name Randomthoughts.

Arroyo also released a guitar instructional classes, Rock Discipline, which covers warm-up exercises, exercises to avoid injury while playing, alternate picking, sweep picking, chords and other techniques for developing one's guitar playing. Juan Carlos also help many guitarist to achieve their techniques in Denver and now in Georgia.

In 1989,Juan Carlos had his first child name Shanti but even then he was still trying his best in not stop playing guitar. After he move to Denver Colorado when his daughter Shanti was 7 years old but came back to Georgia in 2003 and got re-married with his current and last wife Jacqueline Arroyo.

In 2006 Juan Carlos had his second child name Valentina and now he is part of a worship Christian Band in Kennesaw GA in which he lives now a new life with God.