Chris Rodriguez (born March 7, 1960) is an American guitarist, who got his big break in contemporary Christian music, then moving on to play for various secular artists.
He sang jingles for fast food companies and worked as a backup singer and guitarist in Christian music, country music, and pop, appearing on recordings by Michael Bolton, Steven Curtis Chapman, Vince Gill, Amy Grant, Faith Hill, Billy Joel, Wynonna Judd, Kenny Loggins, Michael McDonald, Rich Mullins, Dolly Parton, Michael W. Smith, Shania Twain, and Jaci Velasquez.
[4] The album was described as "somewhere between pop-ified country and layered folk" by the Richmond Times-Dispatch[3] and "a '60s/'70s pop primer worth studying" by the Dayton Daily News.
Rodriguez was part of Shania Twain's "The Woman in Me" TV tour band 1995-96 performing selected international venues and television shows with the musicians Randy Thomas (co-writer of the song "Butterfly Kisses"), Dan Schafer, Russ Taff, Dave Malachowski, Marc Muller, Allison Cornell & Will Owsley.
Rodriguez performed backing vocals on several Megadeth albums, including The System Has Failed (2004), United Abominations (2007), Endgame (2009), Thirteen (2011) and Dystopia (2016).