question: Which American rock singer of Puerto Rican descent marked his first live performance as a solo artist at Live at the Gods Festival 2002? 
answer: Jeff Scott Soto
context: Title: Nuyorican Movement
  Passage: The Nuyorican Movement is a cultural and intellectual movement involving poets, writers, musicians and artists who are Puerto Rican or of Puerto Rican descent, who live in or near New York City, and either call themselves or are known as Nuyoricans.  It originated in the late 1960s and early 1970s in neighborhoods such as Loisaida, East Harlem, Williamsburg, and the South Bronx as a means to validate Puerto Rican experience in the United States, particularly for poor and working-class people who suffered from marginalization, ostracism, and discrimination.
  Title: Live at the Gods Festival 2002
  Passage: Live at the Gods is a live album by Hardline which was released on DVD and CD in 2003.  It was recorded at the Gods Festival in Bradford, England on 2 June 2002, where Hardline was the headliner for this festival.  The concert was an all day festival which featured eight other bands, such as Jeff Scott Soto, whom marked his first live performance as a solo artist, and Harem Scarem.  Hardline was the last band to play at 2 a.m. and during the first couple of songs on the show, the band was suffering from technical and sound problems on stage.  The microphones and equipment were worn out after being on all day.  This also affected the back up singer's microphones the most, causing them to not hear their own voices over the loud music.  While performing the ballad "Face the Night", an angry Johnny Gioeli storms off stage to talk to the Tech Staff to fix the microphones, but keeps his cool and comes back on stage to perform the rest of the show.  Three back up singers were used (two female, one male) at the concert.  The female backup singers, Gudi Laos and Katja Kutz also toured with Johnny's other band – Axel Rudi Pell – on their 2002 Shadow Zone tour.  The line up for the band members in the show is the same as Hardline's second album, with the exception of bass player Christopher Maloney's replacement by producer Bob Burch.
  Title: Frank Bonilla
  Passage: Professor Frank Bonilla (February 3, 1925 – December 28, 2010) was an American academic of Puerto Rican descent who became a leading figure in Puerto Rican Studies.  After earning his doctorate from Harvard University, where his dissertation was supervised by Talcott Parsons, he had held faculty positions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University and the City University of New York.  He is a key figure in the establishment of the Puerto Rican Hispanic Leadership Forum and the Center for Puerto Rico Studies at the City University of New York.
  Title: Jeff Scott Soto
  Passage: Jeff Scott Soto (born November 4, 1965) is an American rock singer of Puerto Rican descent.  He is best known for being the vocalist on Yngwie Malmsteen's first two albums, and the lead vocalist for Journey on their 2006–2007 tours.  He also had a long tenure as the frontman of hard rock band Talisman.  Currently he works as solo artist, with his self-named band SOTO and as the vocalist of supergroups W.E.T., Sons of Apollo and Trans Siberian Orchestra.
  Title: Angelo Garcia
  Passage: Angelo Garcia (born March 28, 1976 in Brooklyn, New York City) is an American singer of Puerto Rican descent and songwriter, who was a member of Puerto Rican boy band Menudo from 1988 to 1990.  He is currently a solo artist.
  Title: Puerto Ricans in World War I
  Passage: Puerto Ricans and people of Puerto Rican descent have participated as members of the United States Armed Forces in every conflict in which the United States has been involved since World War I.  One of the consequences of the Spanish–American War was that Puerto Rico was annexed by the United States in accordance with the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898, ratified on December 10, 1898.  On January 15, 1899, the military government changed the name of Puerto Rico to Porto Rico (On May 17, 1932, the U.S. Congress changed the name back to "Puerto Rico").  On March 21, 1915, the first shots by the United States in World War I were fired by the Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry from El Morro Castle at a German ship in San Juan Bay.  U.S. Citizenship was imposed upon Puerto Ricans as a result of the 1917 Jones–Shafroth Act (the Puerto Rican House of Delegates rejected US citizenship) and were expected to serve in the military.  Puerto Ricans who resided in the island were assigned to the "Porto Rico Provisional Regiment of Infantry," organized on June 30, 1901.  The United States implemented the policy of military segregated units in Puerto Rico.  Puerto Ricans of African descent where assigned to units made up only of blacks, such as the 375th Regiment.  Those who resided in the mainland served in regular units of one of the following branches of the United States military, the United States Marine Corps, Army or the Navy.  As such, they were assigned to regular military units; however, Puerto Ricans of African descent were assigned to segregated all-black units and were subject to the discrimination which was rampant in the U.S. in those days.
  Title: List of Stateside Puerto Ricans
  Passage: This is a list of Puerto Ricans in the United States, including people born in the US who are of Puerto Rican descent, and Puerto Ricans who live in the US.  Since Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the US, Puerto Ricans can migrate to this country more easily than any other ethnic group.  Currently, more than four million Puerto Ricans and their descendants live in the US.  The following list contains members of the Puerto Rican community.
  Title: Nuyorican
  Passage: Nuyorican is a portmanteau of the terms "New York" and "Puerto Rican" and refers to the members or culture of the Puerto Rican diaspora located in or around New York City, or of their descendants (especially those raised or still living in the New York area).  This term could be used for Puerto Ricans living in other areas in the Northeast outside New York State.  The term is also used by Boricuas (Puerto Ricans from Puerto Rico) to differentiate those of Puerto Rican descent from the Puerto Rico-born.
  Title: Music of Puerto Rico
  Passage: The music of Puerto Rico has evolved as a heterogeneous and dynamic product of diverse cultural resources.  The most conspicuous musical sources have been Spain and West Africa, although many aspects of Puerto Rican music reflect origins elsewhere in Europe and the Caribbean and, in the last century, the USA.  Puerto Rican music culture today comprises a wide and rich variety of genres, ranging from essentially indigenous genres like bomba to recent hybrids like reggaeton.  Broadly conceived, the realm of "Puerto Rican music" should naturally comprise the music culture of the millions of people of Puerto Rican descent who have lived in the USA, and especially in New York City.  Their music, from salsa to the boleros of Rafael Hernández, cannot be separated from the music culture of Puerto Rico itself.  Nevertheless, this entry will emphasize music culture as it has flourished on the island; readers should naturally consult other entries for genres like salsa (most commonly thought of).
  Title: Puerto Rican citizenship
  Passage: Puerto Rican citizenship was first legislated by the United States Congress in Article 7 of the Foraker Act of 1900 and later recognized in the Constitution of Puerto Rico.  Puerto Rican citizenship existed before the U.S. takeover of the islands of Puerto Rico and continued afterwards.  Its affirmative standing was also recognized before and after the creation of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in 1952.  Puerto Rican citizenship was recognized by the United States Congress in the early twentieth century and continues unchanged after the creation of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.  The United States government also continues to recognize a Puerto Rican nationality.  Puerto Rican citizenship is also recognized by the Spanish Government, which recognizes Puerto Ricans as a people with Puerto Rican, and not "American" citizenship.  It also grants Spanish citizenship to Puerto Ricans on the basis of their Puerto Rican, not American, citizenship.
citations: Live at the Gods Festival 2002 Jeff Scott Soto