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Jose Muycelo Alvarez "Pepe Starchild" 1965-2011 Pepe was born in Mexico City in 1965, he had a almost "normal" childhood with his family, he never studied music, he was his own teacher, but he joined several proyects, most of all Kiss tributes with different bands, Kissmania as Peter Criss and then as Eric Carr, after that Ankh, they didn´t do anything trascendental but there he perfected his techniques as a drummer, and later on he became a proffesional, a couple of years later he played in a tribute band called "Acoustic Kisses" and then "Flaming Kiss", there he came back as a Catman. In 2002 he met Raul Teran, founder of a band called Misterio (Mystery), Raul asked Pepe to record some voices for his project called Luz Negra "Black light", and after that Raul invited Pepe to join as a guest to the last presentation of the band "Karisma", after Karisma falled apart they made the Mysterio (Mystery) reunion now with Pepe as a lead singer for the next 3 years, during those years they recorded 5 records, after that Alejandro Sanchez joined Mysterio (Mystery), then they create the legendary tribute band called Revenge. His last project was called Psycho Kiss with his friends Raul and Alejandro. He also participated into another projects like the Kissvision fanzine Mexico, as a publishing director and colaborated in the dark info about Kiss. His last project was in his internet radio program called Kissteria, he transmited every saturday from 10pm to 12 am. We will always remember you as a good friend but also as a great person, drummer, singer, Kiss fan, etc.