BIOGRAPHY

After growing up in the California towns of Carmel, Laguna Beach and Los Gatos, Walter Moro ("Buddy") Bohn, professionally known since 1975 as Moro, a one-name author, composer and guitarist, began touring with his guitar and knapsack during college Summer breaks.  On graduating from Illinois' Principia College with a BA in Drama/Journalism, he knapsack toured more than 50 nations as a guitarist-troubadour-never using money as a means of exchange and performing privately for beggars, smugglers and royalty alike.  He wrote many articles describing his travel adventures that were published in several American newspapers including the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR and KANSAS CITY STAR-TIMES.  His adventures were covered in some of the wire services-also in the STARS AND STRIPES and TIME magazine, and he became a guest artist on many network television shows throughout the world.

While in Los Angeles, he took a position playing his guitar nightly at Paul Newman's own, private, membership-only nightclub, The Factory, until the night before it went public.  Then he took a similar position at Howard Hughes' own nightclub, the unpublicized Cabaret Room, for insider habitues in Las Vegas.  There he met the New Christy Minstrels and toured with them as guest soloist until he met Princess Simine of Iran.  They became engaged, and he lived with her at her beach villa in the South of Spain.  She died tragically, and he went to London where, as Buddy Bohn, he composed and recorded for Deep Purple's label an LP that contained his first international, radio hit, Vermouth Rondo.  He performed it with the London Philharmonic Orchestra produced by his good friend, Jerry Lordan, composer of the multimillion-selling, "Apache." 

Proceeds from this enabled him to build his current residence, a beach house-recording studio on the Sonoma Coast near Bodega Bay, California.  Here he has recorded and released five albums of his compositions on his own label, including "Hosanna Blue,"  the world's most aired solo guitar recording for three consecutive years.  Several of his compositions currently air internationally on prestige media, and he's the recipient of 21 consecutive annual ASCAP Awards for consistent airings of his compositions. 

While listening primarily to the teachings of the ocean sound these past decades, Moro hasn't forgotten the critique letter from his friend, the late Norman Cousins, Editor of  the SATURDAY REVIEW, who, having read his 1960's adventure accounts, remarked,
 
"It's a most diverting and picaresque tale, one that reads like a
sentimental journey of a hundred years ago.  Quite a change of
pace from the 'structured' travel journals one sees nowadays."
So he has at last begun to write.  And his time is now spent putting down the details of some of his troubadour years into a book, Kin To The Wind.

Moro website:  www.moromusic.com
Representation:  Arthur Shafman International Artists.  This bio from www.ARTHURSHAFMAN.com is used with permission.