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Adam Zimmon

guitar, music production...

About Me

okay, so I don't have a website, so here is the formal, kind of dry "bio" thingy that I copied from another bio thingy... My life story in music so far... (it works better if you read it with a deep documentary narrator voice)After growing up in Long Island New York, Adam headed south to University of Miami where he studied music and began making his way as a guitar player. After graduating, he dove into in the diverse music scene of miami, playing rock, jazz, funk, reggae,and even Haitian music. His first musical kinships were with the bands The Kind and Fulano De Tal with singer songwriter Elsten Torres. Fulano De Tal soon signed a record deal, and began touring. During this period Adam met DJ Le Spam with whom he still perfoms and records today with the Spam Alllstars. Also around this time, Adam was first called to record for Colombian superstar Shakira. He has since worked with her on four albums, done two international tours, three promotional tours, and countless tv appearences. More recently Adam has been focusing on the indepent music of the Spam allstars and working on their fifth record. Through his work with the Spam Allstars, Adam met Page McConnell from the legendary band Phish. This led to a tour with Pages' side project Vida Blue which featured Otiel Burbridge (Allman Bros, Peacemakers, ARU) and Russell Baptiste (The Funky Meters, Papa Grows Funk). This band is featured on the DVD Vida Blue Live At the Fillmore. Recently page invited Adam to play guitar on his upcomming release featuring other members of Phish along with legendary drummer Jim Keltner. During the last few years, Adam has also been persuing writing and music production. He is currently working on a album with Miami songwiter Jesse Jackson and has a co-writing credit on Fulano's latest release, Individual, in addition to playing guitar. Most recently, he can be heard on the track "Down" featuring Kanye West on Chris Brown's 1 album "exclusive". Over the years Adam has been fortunate to record and perform with many great artists such as:Dido, Alejandro Sanz, Enrique Iglesias, Raul Midon, Inner Circle, The Kind, J.D. Natasha, Raw B Jae, Sixo, Popvert, Jacob Miller, Pat Green, Sterling Ensemble, Juan Carlos Perez Soto, Bundia Mundial, Javier Garcia, Loray Mistik, Bacilos, Jorge Moreno, Karina, Circo, Shaun Escoffery, Sammy Figueroa, Delmar Brown, Pedro Suarez Vertiz, Fernando Osorio, Shalim, Clambake 2000, Nicolle Chirino, Ricky Martin, Julio iglesias Jr., Julio Iglesias, Mandy Moore, Jon Secada, Miami Sound machine, Anna Cristina, Brendan Buckley, Tim Mitchell, Aaron fishbein, Chuck Treece, and more...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/13/2006
Band Website: spamallstars.com
Band Members: me
Influences: hmmm...this is impossible but... The Who, The Police, Ennio Morricone, U2, The Clash, Rolling Stones, Joao Gilberto, Little Beaver, Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield, albert King, jimi hendrix, led zepplin, jeff beck, beatles, Flamimng lips, Mercury Rev, Miles Davis, nina Simone, Joni Mitchell, Dj LeSpam, Tortise, NIN, Lee Perry, Bob Marley, Fulano, Frank Zappa, Bob Dylan, Fugazi, Husker Du, Pixies, Leonard Cohen, Gram Parsons, Willie Nelson, John McLaughlin, Soundgarden, Bill Withers, jaco pastorius, McRad, Fela, Los Lobos, Coltrane, Phillip Glass, Johnny Cash, Steve Earle, Fishbone, Elvis Costello, Peter Green, Velvet underground, Al Green, james brown, John fahey, the cure, Outkast, The Beatles, Queens of the stoneage, wes montgomery, brian wilson, skip james, sonic youth, radiohead, john zorn, Frank sinatra, blur, Pulp, cateano veloso, pat metheny, willie colon, Brendan Buckley, tim mitchell, Van Halen, sterling ensemble, Lane cook, jesse jackson, Lester bangs and on and on
Sounds Like: Ummm... usually some guitar with other instruments and sometimes vocals all playing at once!
Type of Label: None