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Ari Mendes Amenstudio

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Recording studio,Music and Audio Production. Ari Mendes was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he worked as a studio and live performance musician with many top artists, like Ney Matogrosso, Leila Pinheiro, Erasmo Carlos, Angela RoRo, Evandro Mesquita, Antonio Adolfo, Odette Ernest Dias,among many others. He also produced many syndicated TV shows soundtracks ( Armação Ilimitada, Roque Santeiro, Globo Network ) and in 1989 was awarded the "Sharp Award", considered to be the Brazilian Grammy. He moved to Boston next, where he built his first studio. In 2005 Ari Mendes moved to Port St Lucie, Florida, and built a state of the art recording studio, Amenstudio.com, where he works as a producer/arranger /musician/engineer. He also created his record label, AMP (Ari Mendes Productions). Looking for creative minds with a passion for justice and giving, we'll listen to your music, try me! Amenstudio is a high tech recording facility in Historic Downtown Stuart, Florida . Lots of vintage gear available, together with high definition digital recording equipment. We offer a full range of services, from music production to radio spots, voice overs, digital editing and restoration, mastering, forensic audio and post. Artist development, with honest to goodness financial guiding . Ari is an accomplished guitar, percussion and bass player, ranging from Jazz, Latin, Rock, Christian and Classical, and a recording, mixing and mastering studio engineer with 25 years of studio experience. His main passion is Worship leading and Evangelism, working with prision, orphanages, manor homes and youth ministries .Very active on the Florida’s cultural scene, having played at prestigious venues such as the Mar-a-Lago Club, the Breakers Hotel, Tradition and City Place, and Jazz festivals such as the Riverwalk Jazz, Riviera Beach Jazz and Blues Festival, Fort Pierce Mardi Grass, just to name a few. He's also a member and an audio recording article writer for the The Blues Alliance of the Treasure Coast. Ari Mendes can be reached for studio work and/or live performances at www.amenstudio.com .

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 23/07/2007
Band Website: www.amenstudio.com
Band Members: My main guitars: Resurrection Eagle, Gibson LP Custom Black Beauty, Fender Strat USA, Jackson PC-1 Phil Collen, Carvin Bolt , Heritage 535, Heritage Eagle, JJ Jewel P90's, Godin with piezo and midi converter, Schecter 12 w/ EMG's, G and L Telecaster, Carvin 185, Self built Carvin kit w/ Chris Petrosky electronics,Taylor 6 and 12 , 1978 Martin D 18, Ovation Adamas, Larrivee, Takamine Nylon, among many others... Marshall, Fender, Boogie amps. Various boutique stomp boxes, Roland GP-8, Vox Valvetronix multi effects. Roland GR 33 and Yamaha Motif for the Midi stuff. My basses Sadowsky NYC 5, Spector NS 4, Schecter 5 Fretless, Carvin 6 strings, Dean acoustic.Eden amp, Aguilar speakers, MilleniaTD-1 DI and Boss GT-6 B pedals. Oh, last but not least, a Jay Turser Beatles bass... Assorted mandolins, mandolas, and percussion.
Influences: Music, too many to mention, from Beatles to Tchaikovsky. Aerosmith is my dream band . Help, The Sound of Music, Romeo and Juliet, these are my favorite movies. Sci Fi is good too! Anything from Science Channel , Discover and National Geographic . Beatles taught me how to rock and expand consciousness...Tchaikovsky, Yes and Charlie Parker taught me that music is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration. Hard, hard work. My music project, Ari Mendes Experience (AME) is the sum of all my influences, using the Healing powers of Rock, Jazz and Brasilian music, played with a humble and thankful heart. Your attitude determines your altitude...Flying high in the wings of Love , always giving more than taking, that's the key to success and peace. Personal, my beloved Jesus the guy with the long hair who hung out with crazy people like me, and taught me not to fear no more, because I'm forgiven by God , my Hero.
Sounds Like: Fun
Record Label: AMP (Ari Mendes Productions)
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Ari Mendes Star Spangled Banner Astrodome Houston TX.

http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=ojVRi8iui-A "Making music is my hobby, and I'm thankful that I make a good living out of it. But my real business is making friends"
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