Kevin Silva comes from a family of electronics pioneers and learned to solder at age seven. After repairing vacuum-tube televisions as a teenager, he established his own business in 1990, specializing in vacuum-tube musical equipment. Kevin has built more than 300 tube amplifiers and repaired over 28,000, working with musicians including Aerosmith, Pink Floyd, John Mellencamp, and Alan Jackson. He holds patents for a wireless water-detection system and a table guitar amplifier. Also an accomplished musician, Kevin has played for more than 48 years, toured for nearly 15 years, and recorded four albums of original music.