The Soft Moon

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Jose Luis Vasquez (May 30, 1979 – January 18, 2024) was an American musician and record producer. Vasquez was the lead vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and sole official member of The Soft Moon, which he founded in 2009. Vasquez was born in Los Angeles, California, to a Cuban immigrant mother, and to a Mexican father who was never present in his life. At the age of nine, the family relocated to Victorville, California, a town in the Mojave Desert. As a teenager, Vasquez started out playing punk rock inspired by Descendents, Bad Religion, Bad Brains, Fugazi and Minor Threat. After graduating from Hesperia High School, he moved to Oakland, California where he briefly played in San Francisco-based psychedelic band Lumerians as a percussionist. As Luis Vasquez, he created The Soft Moon project in 2009, and shortly after, Brooklyn-based label Captured Tracks approached him with a record deal. In 2010 his first single "Breathe The Fire" and "Parallels" were released on 7" vinyl under the Captured Tracks imprint. His first album with The Soft Moon was released in 2010 and the band toured in 2011, opening in the US for Interpol and Mogwai. In 2012, Vasquez was robbed at gunpoint while walking in his Oakland neighborhood, and his backpack with a laptop containing a finished album and two years' worth of demos were stolen.