Cisco Adler

Los Angeles-born alternative hip-hop/reggae/funk-rock artist Cisco Adler, the son of director/music producer Lou Adler, first caught the public's attention as the frontman for Malibu-based rockers Whitestarr, with whom he released a pair of albums, Luv Machine and Fillith Tillith, before leaving the group in 2008. He began working with rapper Shwayze that same year, releasing an album that boasted a pair of singles, "Buzzin" and "Corona and Lime," which found success on the Billboard Hot 100. A second outing released under Shwayze's name, Let It Beat, arrived in 2009, followed in 2011 by Island in the Sun. While still working with Shwayze, Adler released a pair of EPs under his own name (Alice in La La Land in 2009 and The W's in 2011), as well as a pair of mixtapes (Rich Girls in 2008 and Super California Lipstick Sexy Magic Dope S**t in 2010). In 2012 Adler's first solo album, Aloha, was issued on his own Bananabeat Records.