Domingo Steven "Sunny" Ortiz (born July 4, 1952)[1] is an American musician best known as the longtime percussionist for Widespread Panic.
[2] Ortiz began his career on a standard drum set, but shifted to bongos, congas, timbales and other percussion instruments as a way to distinguish himself from other drummers in Texas.
[3] In 1986 he moved to Athens, Georgia where he met up with the members of the newly formed Widespread Panic.
He continued to sit in with them regularly when they played in Georgia for the next couple of years before accepting their formal offer to join the band in late 1988 or early 1989.
He did, however, perform on the late Widespread Panic guitarist Michael Houser's debut solo album Door Harp and current Widespread Panic keyboardist John Hermann's debut solo album Smiling Assassin.