John Kelly and Maite Itoiz - ProfilesArchive

About Me

We are two musicians with two very different backgrounds. John sold more than 20 million records with his former band "Kelly Family" and I am a Spanish opera singer, producer and arranger (and guitarist). Together we developed this musical project; "Tales from the Secret Forest" We are up to 12 musicians on stage (the number changes depending on the conditions of the concert), all of them very known as soloists or studio musicians. To the rock band (drums, bass, e-guitars, keyboards, piano..) we added the Celtic steel string harp, Irish whistles, pipes and cello. Two experienced dancers/singers make the harmonies of the voices together with us, and an actor/acrobat/dancer from the Cirque du Soleil is in charge of guiding the fantasy show, in his role of leprechaun. In the recording, a full real symphony orchestra plays with us. On stage we played only a couple of times with the orchestra, but we hope we can do it more often in the future. The project started in June 2006. We hit the amazon charts in Germany last July, getting number one! :-)
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Member Since: 11/2/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/johnkellymaiteitoiz
Band Members: John Kelly and Maite Itoiz.Maite Itoiz (main voice, compositions, arrangements, producer, guitars, dance, percussion, graphics, illustrations, designs, concept) John Kelly (main voice, compositions, guitars, dance, percussion, photography, video, producer, concept, business man)The rest of the band members are rotating, here their names:Kayami Satomi (Cello) Gereon Homann (drums) Solange Freyre (back vocals and dancer) Lily Dahab (back vocals and dancer) Marcel Lichter (piano) Guenther Gebauer (bass) Colin Goldie (Irish wishtles and pipe) Jochen Vogel (Celtic steel string harp) Nicky Fischer (Sound engineer) Stephan Deil (Light engineer) Wolf Simon (drums) Tim Fischer (Guitars) Veronica Ferreiro (back vocals and dancer) Jesko von den Steinen (Acrobat, dancer and actor) Bene Apperdanier (piano) Sebastian Bertram (keyboards) Mirko Rum (guitars)

Influences: Pop, rock, hard rock, celtic music, middle age, Renaissance, Baroque, new age, symphony music (Mahler, Bruckner), electronic, lyric, Spanish (Paco de Lucia), big choirs (Verdi, Orff, Brahms)
Sounds Like: Our music and show is a blending of fantasy with reality, symphonic music that reminds of legendary film soundtracks mixed with pop, rock, electronic, Spanish, middle age, lyric and classic sounds. A trip through the deepest dreams and feelings of the human kind. It reminds to Enya, Loreena McKennitt, Lord of the Rings, Braveheart, Mike Oldfield, together with rock, pop, electronic and symphony sounds.__________________________OUR SPONSORS AND PARTNERS:..http/www.wwf.de/amazonas-3Internationale Symphoniker DeutschlandJorge Terra, designer, sponsors Maite with his gorgeous and sexy :-)creations.www.jorgeterra.es
Record Label: Art Libitum
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New concert & some new infos (Tod@s a Pamplona el 10 de Octubre!!)

Estimados amigos-as, POR FIN EL SECRET FOREST VIENE EN VERSIÓN CONCIERTO COMPLETO Y CON TODAS LAS DE LA LEY A UN ESCENARIO CERCANO A VOSOTROS-AS!!! Después de algunas conversaciones, el 10 de O...
Posted by John Kelly and Maite Itoiz on Fri, 23 May 2008 05:48:00 PST

THE SPRING TOUR 2008 WORKED OUT!!!!!!!

Thanks to all of you, the Spring Tour 2008 worked out!! Everything went so perfect that still cannot realize what we did with such a small team. It's so amazing!!! Several towns sold out the ti...
Posted by John Kelly and Maite Itoiz on Thu, 08 May 2008 12:03:00 PST

The SPRING TOUR is here!

Dear friends, Only some more days and the Spring Tour 2008 will start! If you still didn't get your tickets or still have some doubts, don't think about it twice and contact our office to order now! :...
Posted by John Kelly and Maite Itoiz on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:06:00 PST

QUEDADA en Pamplona el Sábado

Hola!A todos los que les apetezca venir, vamos a hacer una quedada este Sábado 29 (bueno, ya fue, el sábado pasado) en Pamplona. Hemos quedado a las 18:00h en la puerta del "café bar Iruña", en la Pla...
Posted by John Kelly and Maite Itoiz on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:08:00 PST

New song in the profile

You have probably already discovered that the song "Hoy comamos y bebamos" is uploaded new in the profile (sorry for the ones that added the instrumental version of the "Secret Forest" song in their p...
Posted by John Kelly and Maite Itoiz on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 05:36:00 PST

Promo tour meetings (Spring tour 2008) and MDR tickets.

Dear friends,As you know, John (and probably me too) are going to travel through the cities of our next tour in a few days (probably to start on the 8th of March) to promote it postering, going to rad...
Posted by John Kelly and Maite Itoiz on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:21:00 PST

TOUR 2008 (first dates)

Here I write the confirmed dates for the Spring tour2008. APRIL: 22 Soest 23 Koeln 25 R¨usselsheim 26 Heilbronn 27 Bayreuth 29 Berlin 30 Berlin MAY: 1 Stendal 2 Bre...
Posted by John Kelly and Maite Itoiz on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:55:00 PST

Grimmas concert LIVE online

Hello to everybody!Tomorrow, the 10th of February, you can see us live even if you are not here. The web radio:www.rockradio.deis going to broadcast our concert online. Remember there is another band ...
Posted by John Kelly and Maite Itoiz on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:28:00 PST

Leipzig, Grimma, Spanish fans

Hello to everybody!How was the beginning of the new year??We started the year really busy, I spend almost the whole day in the studio and John is coming out from his office only to eat and sleep, so q...
Posted by John Kelly and Maite Itoiz on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:43:00 PST

Chat with John and Maite on the 29th Dec. at 20:00h!!

Hello to everybody!I just added a chat box to our profile. The idea is to use it to do a chat with John, me and you, I hope the chat box can take many visitors!!The appointment will be on Saturday the...
Posted by John Kelly and Maite Itoiz on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 06:03:00 PST