Education
Bonilla currently plays in California Transit Authority, a project led by former Chicago drummer and founding member Danny Seraphine, featuring some updates to early Chicago songs as well as new material and has currently completed the follow-up album of all original material.
Career
He has worked with (including on 1995"s Changing States and in Emerson"s 2006 touring band), Ronnie Montrose, (on Addiction (produced, co-written and performed), The Way lieutenant Is, 1999, also playing keyboards), David Coverdale (late 2000 live band) and Kevin Gilbert (Toy Matinee live band). He also appears on the Emerson, Lake & Palmer tribute album Encores, Legends & Paradox (Magna Carta Records, 1999) and a spoken word album with comedian for Atlantic entitled "Fuzzatonic Scream" including the controversial single, "Suicide" in 1998. He has released a number of solo albums.
Among them, Electrical engineer Ticket (Reprise, 1991), and American Matador (Warner Brothers, 1993), which includes covers of "A Whiter Shade of Pale" and "I Am the Walrus" with guest Ronnie Montrose.
He has also produced, co-written and performed with the Band"s new album. In addition, he tours with Eddie Jobson"s UZ Project as singer, guitarist and bassist.
Marc moved to Los Angeles in the early 90"s to work on television and movie scoring working with James Newton Howard, John Debney, and others, earning an Emmy nomination in 2001. In addition, he had cameo roles in the 1997 television series Nightman about a crime-fighting sax player, for which he was the musical director and acted as a performer (with his band) in several episodes under the alias Marc Bonilla and Dragonchoir.
He has done guitars for numerous films such as The Replacements, The Scorpion King, Spiderman 2, Iron Manitoba 2, Green Lantern, The Bourne Legacy, and composes and performs the music on the hit series, Justified, on Forex channel, with keyboardist, Steve Porcaro (Toto).
He also lectured at Los Angeles"s Guitar Institute of Technology (GIT). Although Marc appears in the video for Toy Matinee"s "Ballad of Jenny Ledge," he did not actually play lead guitar on the album. Lead guitar work for the Toy Matinee LP was done by Los Angeles studio guitarist Tim Pierce, though Marc replaced him for the touring incarnation of the band along with Sheryl Crow.
Around the time that Electrical engineer Ticket was released, Yamaha musical instruments produced a prototype left-handed Marc Bonilla model guitar.
This guitar was embellished with comic book superheroes, of which Marc was very fond. (wwwmarcbonillacom).