Danilo Paiz is a composer, lyricist, vocalist, percussionist, and guitarist who has performed, recorded, and toured the world with legends such as Ray Barretto, Dizzy Gillespie, Ruben Blades, Celia Cruz, and many others. He began releasing his own original material in the 1990s. He has been performing with his Salsa orchestra, as well as smaller music groups, around the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond for several decades, playing a range of genres, such as Salsa, Latin Jazz, Merengue, Cumbia, Reggaeton, Cha Cha, Cuban Son, as well as R&B, Swing, and Blues.