Harmonica player and vocalist Carlos Zialcita has been part of the San Francisco Bay Area blues scene for three decades as a performer, promoter, educator, and radio announcer. His career began in the early 70's with the Chico David Blues Band, a group first based in the Bay Area, and then Los Angeles. They backed artists like T-Bone Walker, Charles Brown, and Big Mama Thornton.

Since those early days Zialcita has recorded and toured throughout the United States and Canada with several major blues artists including Johnny Otis, Sugar Pie DeSanto, and Sonny Rhodes. Not exactly a stranger to the jazz scene, Zialcita has also performed with many well known artists over the years including Donald Byrd, Eddie Palmieri, John Handy, Donald Bailey, and Calvin Keys. He has two CDs as a solo artist - Train Through Oakland with The Johnny Otis Band in 2000, and Evolution, released in 2004. He has recorded with different artists and groups, including the gospel group the West Coast Spiritual Corinthians in 1988 and the rap/hip-hop group, the Coup in 1987.

In 2003 Zialcita expanded his musical horizons and formed The Carlos Zialcita Jazztet, incorporating jazz and latin elements into his vocal and instrumental repertoire. Breaking away from the standard diatonic blues diatonic harmonica, Zialcita's sets now also features his chromatic harmonica stylings. Playing both chromatic and diatonic harmonicas to compliment his vocals, Zialcita performs songs from a wide repertoire that includes many jazz and blues standards.

Zialcita has considerable experience as an educator, working as the class coordinator with Johnny Otis since 1998 to present the Jazz, Blues, and Popular Music class with the Peralta Community College District. For the past 10 years, Zialcita has taught computer applications and PC Hardware repair and maintenance at Encinal High School in Alameda, where he also sponsors the Filipino Club. Zialcita also provides harmonica lessons to students both in a private setting and at music education seminars sponsored by Hohner Harmonicas and the City of Oakland.

Since those early days Zialcita has been on numerous musical journeys with many of the blues and R&B legends he has long respected and admired. He has also led his own bands, beginning with the Eldorado Blues Band, then the California Cadillacs, the Carlos Zialcita Band, and now the Carlos Zialcita Jazztet.