Jesse Houts
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Jesse Houts, born on March 16th, 1975 in Santa Cruz, California, is a prominent physically disabled musician, manager, promoter, and activist in the Bay Area. Born with a rare non-progressive form of muscular dystrophy, Jesse has strived to be heavily involved in the rock and roll community since his teenage years. Finding that music helped Jesse cope with his disabilty more than any other activity, he attended over 400 concerts as a young adult and was known to be seen backstage at many shows for years. Since the early 00s, Jesse has booked shows for many artists in Santa Cruz including Ween, Secret Chiefs 3, The Sound Of Urchin, and Nebula. On 09/23/00, Jesse made his live performing debut by rapping onstage under the moniker MC Wheels with the band Estradasphere; then later performed in Los Angeles along with Tim Smolens, George Smith, Joel Robinow, and Joey Ryken in the only live appearance to date by the Estradasphere side project ISS. In 2003 he again worked with Estradasphere by performing a controversial bit of spoken word on their album Quadropus.
For the last few years Jesse has played sporadic live shows in the Santa Cruz area consisting of cover songs with various backup musicians from Estradasphere and God of Shamisen. He is one of the only known singers in the world who performs while breathing with the assistance of a ventilator.
