Dito Montiel

Dito Montiel doesn't want to be thought of as a dilettante. Though he's written well-received books and directed an award-winning film, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, he is first and foremost a songwriter. In a press statement, he has said: "The book was simply a song on paper. The movie is a big one on a screen, and the ones on my album happen to have some music mixed in." Evidence to back him up on that isn't as skimpy as it might be for other jack-of-all-trade artists. Montiel's musical dabblings weave through the narrative of A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, a chro...