Electronic Press Kit
Electronic Press Kit
RELEASED Music
Live Performances
BioGRAPHY (long)
Miguel "Frunkyman" Leyva—is a Northern California-based composer, bassist, and experimenter of groove. With roots in composition and orchestration from the Hollywood scene and a career across jazz, funk, and studio work, he’s on a mission to bring Earth to experience the “frunk,” a funk-forward, cinematic live experience. His body of work includes cinematic credits as a composer and projects that bear the stamp of the Frunkyman sound. His seven-piece Frunkyman Mothership powers a high-voltage show that defies easy labels and invites audiences on a sonic funk-journey. Recent highlights include Six Flags Discovery Kingdom Resident Artist (2024), San José Jazz New Works Awardee (2022), San José Jazz Summer Fest ’23, Blues & Brews 2022–23, Featured Artist/Resident at the San José Museum of Art, and the DYKSJ Artist Series.
As part of an ongoing lore saga, Frunkyman is a fictional extraterrestrial marooned on Earth, spreading “frunk” with his mothership while searching for a way back to Fropiter. Explore the Frunkyverse on his socials.
Bio for socials (medium)
Miguel “Frunkyman” Leyva is a Northern California–based composer/bassist and experimenter of groove. He brings Earth the “frunk”: funk-forward, cinematic live energy stamped with the Frunkyman sound. His seven-piece Mothership delivers a high-voltage show. Credits include cinematic composing; highlights: Six Flags Resident Artist ’24, San José Jazz New Works ’22, Summer Fest ’23, Blues & Brews ’22–’23, San José Museum of Art residency, DYKSJ.
Bio for socials (short) (describes band sound/concept)
Miguel “Frunkyman” Leyva is a composer-bassist leading a seven-piece power-funk band—the Frunkyman Mothership—fusing bass-forward grooves, cinematic textures, and crowd-driven improvisation into a high-voltage live show. Come Experience the Frunk Live.
Press Quotes & Testimonials
“I can tell you that this band is "wild". The energy you give them they’re going to give you right back ten times.”
-San Jose Jazz - New Works Fest 2023
Artist Press Photos & Logos


Frunkyman full mothership

Frunkyman Mini mothership

Frunkyman "Eleccctriccc" trio

Frunkyman Chordless trio





For black backgrounds

For white backgrounds











