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Coco Montoya (Henry Montoya, born October 2, 1951 in Santa Monica, California, United States) is an important blues guitarist who was part of John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers.
Montoya's career began in the mid-1970s when Albert Collins invited him to join his band as drummer. Collins mentored Montoya and taught her his icy hot style. They have remained friends even after Montoya left the Collins gang. In the early 1980s, John Mayall heard Montoya play guitar in a Los Angeles bar. Soon after, Mayall invited Montoya to join the newly reformed Bluesbreakers. Montoya stayed with the band for 10 years. In the early 1990s he decided it was time to try it out for himself. He has released several highly successful blues albums
Montoya is left-handed and plays the guitar backwards while keeping the strings in the normal order. In other words, this means that he plays right-handed guitars turned around, which carry the low strings at the top of the neck and the high strings at the bottom, just as he uses his right hand to strike chords and his left to pluck them, for him the high ones are at the top and the low ones are at the bottom. This contrasts with the style of other left-handers like Jimi Hendrix and Tony Iommi, among others, whose guitars have restringed left-handed strings (although Hendrix could also play guitars with unrestringed strings). In most current photos of Montoya, he appears playing a Stratocaster-type guitar, with a left-handed body (a mirror image of a right-handed body), with a typical right-handed Stratocaster neck and headstock, in such a way that the pegs fit at the bottom, and with the strings arranged backwards from the typical placement of a left-handed guitar.
