Gary Llama is a artist and musician from Richmond, VA. He got his start writing and performing music in the Richmond, VA punk scene in the early 1990s, as the singer and guitarist for the band, 500$Fine, and as the guitarist for the band, S.O.P.
In the late 90s, he began learning the art of recording, and by the early 2000s, was recording local punk and hardcore bands. This also gave him the ability to record his own music, and he began writing and recording songs, released under the aka’s of Silence Is Suicide, and later, F-Box.
Gary’s music tends to blur the lines between the personal and political, and instrumentation wise, also blurs between electric and acoustic, sometimes going full on into electronic.
In 2010 he began working on instrumental music, and releasing it under a number of AKAs such as Cinema Society, Imagination Society, Beat Weirdos, and Champions of Society. He also began collaborating with local Emcess, with Ben FM under the Imagination Society aka, and with Emcee Timbo King as Mineral Writes, as well as with singer / songwriter Alix Petrie.