Marko DeSantis

Marko DeSantis is a music professional best known as the lead guitarist and co-founder of modern rock n roll band Sugarcult, with whom he has toured worldwide and sold over a million records since launching out of Santa Barbara, CA in 2001.Sugarcult released three studio records which spawned hit singles such as; “Bouncing Off the Walls”, “Pretty Girl (The Way)”, “Do It Alone” and “Memory”. They’ve also released a documentary DVD, a live album, a “best of”/concert-DVD.

Sugarcult has headlined their own national and international tours; performed on the main stages of festivals around the world (Glastonbury, Reading/Leeds, Summersonic, Warped Tour, Soundwaves, etc); were the main support act on Green Day’s “American Idiot” USA/Japan tours, and Blink 182’s farewell European tour and countless other tours.

Prior to Sugarcult, Marko played in punk/indie bands such as The Ataris, Swingin Utters and Nerf Herder.
He is also a founding member of experimental/indie side-project Bad Astronaut.

Marko also composes for film and television, and produces/writes & does artist development coaching for other artists.

As an educator, Marko is currently an adjunct professor at several top music colleges (MI, LACM & Citrus), where he lectures on music business, artist development, songwriting and the future of the music industry. He has been an invited guest speaker & panelist at SXSW, New Noise Fest, Taxi Road Rally, Kenshu Japan, Camp Jam/Power Chord Academy, etc

Marko DeSantis is based in Los Angeles, CA.