[WUFT Amplified intro] I'm Glenn Richards, and this is WUFT Amplified, showcasing some amazing local artists for your listening pleasure.

On this episode, we're going to meet Tamayo featuring Michael Tamayo on bass guitar and vocals, Kevin Fitz on drums, Chris Modrono on guitar, and we've got Kelsey Sharp on keyboard and vocals, and Devin Constant on percussion.

With their song “Serotonin Dopamine,” here's Tamayo on WUFT Amplified.

Do you know?

I just got to know.

If this rivers still flowin.

So let me know.

Cause I just got to know.

Is our love worth pursuing?

My serotonin, my dopamine.

Is there any left for me?

Am I a sailor lost at sea?

Or do I have some company?

My serotonin, my dopamine.

Do you know?

Cause I just got to know.

Your eyes are my favorite island.

So let me know.

Cause I just need to know.

Am I a wave crashing on your iris?

My serotonin, my dopamine.

Is there any left for me?

Am I a sailor lost at sea?

Or do I have some company?

My serotonin, my dopamine.

I could use some assistance.

And you really seem to listen.

So let me know.

Cause I just got to know.

Please tell me just how youre feeling.

Just let me know.

Cause I just got to know.

If any of this is even worth saying.

My serotonin, my dopamine.

Is there any left for me?

Am I a sailor lost at sea?

Or do I have some company?

My serotonin, my dopamine.

My serotonin, my dopamine.

Serotonin (x4) My serotonin, my dopamine.

My serotonin, my dopamine.

My serotonin, my dopamine (x5) Thats “Serotonin Dopamine” from Tamayo on WUFT Amplified.

Michael, Ive been following you and your group for a couple of years.

But for everybod who's unfamiliar with the band, tell us how you guys came together, and how long ago?

Hi Glenn.

I appreciate you guys following us for so long.

This band originally formed here in Gainesville, in the spring of 2018.

So we just turned 6.

We met through just the music scene in town.

I was playing out on different open mics and stuff.

And we kind of all came together organically.

Kevin and I met soon after that.

And then the rest of this group right now really kind of joined us in the last year or two, as we kind of moved around Florida.

Chris Modrono from Miami came up to Gainesville, and he joined the band a bit after that.

And then Kelsey and Devin, we met in Saint Petersburg, the music scene down there an they joined us just last year.

You guy have some interesting day jobs.

We do, we do.

We have a full tim artist here in Devin Constant, a music teacher and one of the best in the Tampa Bay area Kelsey Sharp.

Chris is one of the cooles bartenders and audio engineers here at University of Florida in Gainesville.

Kevin manages properties and is going to be a real estate agent.

And I'm a public defender, so I'm an attorney working with the people in the Manatee County area, like Bradenton, Sarasota area.

So where can people find your music?

Where's the best plac to find out more about Tamayo?

Well, Glenn, we're all over the internet, so were on all your popular streaming services, as well as YouTube and all the video stuff.

But if you want, you can check out tamayoband.com, and you'll have access to all our musi there as well as our email lists and all our shows that we're playing at.

So you can definitely find all our music there at tamayoband.com.

And is tamayoband your handle for all the like Instagram and Spotify and all that stuff?

Yeah, tamayoband is how you can find us on all our streaming services, YouTub services, Facebook, Instagram.

Just put that in and you'll get to us.

And also appearances like where you guys are playing and things like that.

Yep, all our shows are on the website.

Like I said, you can join our email list and we blast that once a month for all our cool stuff.

We send out some press.

So you guys like to do a lot of charity stuff?

We do.

We're really excite to do a lot of stuff in Florida, especially around the spring for the Florida Springs Council.

We're definitely water warriors here.

We try to conserve our best, you know, we can.

Living in Alachua County, you get to, like, experience, like some beautiful, you know, nature's, like, just beauty and abundance.

And it's super important that as, you know, human beings that we, you know, conserve that and make it reusable.

Any othe charities you guys are into or?

Everyone here has different stuff.

Kelsey teaches music.

She runs into a lot of youth who need help with music and learning how to play musi and it's super important that, you know, we keep musi in schools going on constantly.

As a public defender you know, Ive had to experience some really harsh poverty tha happens in all our communities around Florida and the rest of the country.

And, you know, betwee pro bono work or just, you know, helping people on the streets or kids in school, we just need a helping hand.

You know, I think we, all of us, try our best to do that.

And Chris probably does the most week to week, day to day charity work.

He actually has a cover band called The Imbeciles that does exactly that.

You want to talk about that a little Chris?

Yeah.

I also play in a cover band called The Imbeciles, and we play once a month to benefit charities partnered with a local brewery.

Blackadder Brewing Company has a charity partner every month, and once a month, we play shows where 100% of tips go to the charity partner.

This last month, we just or this month we raised money for the Junior League of Gainesville.

But it's all kinds of stuff.

Florida Spring Council, Lubee Bat Conservancy, Girls Place, GROW HUB.

Too many charities different one every month.

And now you're here with WUFT.

All right.

Yeah.

All right.

Well, let's hear some more music.

Tell us about this next one.

This one is cool.

We wrote i with our original guitar player, Trevo Zwann, who's still in our band, but he just opened a restaurant, so he's busy with that.

He opened a sushi restaurant.

He's really good at making sushi and stuff.

So that's where he is tonight.

So this one going out to Trevor James Zwann.

What what?

What what?

And Trevor and I wrote this back in 20 man, probably 2018, 2019 now.

But we love him to death, man, I wish he was here with us.

But Chris is going to do this.

Oh baby I feel your energy.

I sense it when you read my stories.

You know you're always on my mind.

And I feel your vibrations all the time.

I love it when you think of me.

I love it when you think of me.

I love it when you think of me.

I love it when you think of me.

So now troubles come our way.

The rhythm and soul will take it away.

Just hold my hand, it'll be okay.

But for now to jah jah we pray.

I love it when you think of me.

I love it when you think of me.

I love it when you think of me.

I love it when you think of me.

In the morning.

Late at night.

When it's dark out.

When it's light.

In the morning.

And at night.

When it's dark out.

When it's light.

I love it when you think of me.

I love it when you think of me.

Oh, I love it when you think of me.

I love it when you think of me.

The moon is out and the night is clear.

In the wind, its your voice I hear.

Maybe you're listening to our song?

To be with you is where I belong.

I love it when you think of me.

I love it when you think of me.

I love it when you think of me.

I love it when you think of me.

You know I love it, you know I love it.

You know I love it, you know I love it.

I love it when you think of me.

You kno I love it, you know I love it.

You know I love it, you know I love it.

I love it when you think of me.

That's “ Love it When You Think of Me,” a 2020 single releas from Tamayo on WUFT Amplified.

Find out more about WUFT Amplified and check out past episodes a w-u-f-t-dot-org-slash-amplified.

I'm Glenn Richards.

Thanks to Tamayo for performing for us, and thank you for checking us out.

We'll see you next time.

Thank you so much, everybody.

Tamayo, tamayoband, I hear Christopher Modrono on the guitar.

Devin Constant on the percussion.

Kevin Jamal Fitz right here on the drums.

Kelsey Sharp right on th keyboard.

My name is Michael J.

Thank you so much for hanging out with us.

We'll see you soon.

We're in Gainesvill all the time and around Florida.

Check us out on al the social medias at tamayoband.

Thank you so much WUFT.

Thank you University of Florida.

Thank you all you awesome students who made this all possible.

We really appreciate all you guys.

I know I'm no good, and I hate to say that I told you so.

Why do you follow me where no one else dares to go?

Ah, oh, ooh, ooh.

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