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Anthony

About Me

Multi-instrumentalist with an ear and an addiction to melody. Anthony began learning himself through music at age 10 playing guitar and piano in a little church in a big city called Buenos Aires, Argentina. After moving to Pittsburgh Anthony went on to study piano at AAMI (Afro-American Music Institute) under Howie Alexander. At the time Anthony was also playing keyboards with the group Eric James (check him out he's on Anthony Top 8), until moving on to New York to take it to the next level. Since moving to New York. Anthony's music has been featured in films shown in the New York Film and TV Festival, SuperDeluxe.com, a fashion campaign for Baby Phat, the New York Times Jet Blue Channel, and Victorinox Swiss Army with much more in the works...Anthony is also a full time party rocker, and in a very short time in the New York scene he's built a reputation. He's served as a music director and consultant to Physique 57, Jour et Nuit, and Opia. And has wowed crowds in NYC hotspots such as Tenjune, The INN, Merkato 55, Studio B, Opia, Jour Et Nuit, and POP Burger. So whether he's Djing for celebs like Kelly Ripa's fitness class at Physique 57 or rocking a club in the meatpacking district, one thing is for sure people are getting sweaty!When Anthony is not making, listening to or reading/thinking about music. You can find Anthony down at The PIT (Peoples Improv Theater W 29 btwn 6-7ave) performing with the PIT house team known as The Wilhelm...
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/10/2005
Band Members: Anthony...that's it. Unless there's a collaboration on a track, but for the most part it's Anthony just being blessed by the Spirit.
Influences: Driving at night, summer days, Stevie Wonder, Quincy Jones, The Neptunes, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (genius'), Dr. Dre, Scott Storch, Timbaland, Raphael Saadiq, A Touch of Jazz, Maxwell, Extreme, Michael Jackson, Pittsburgh, New York City, Jay Z, Common, Jamiroquai, Just Blaze, Mos Def, Guns N Roses, Celine Dion, Rick James, Anyone on American Idol, Floetry, New Kids on the Block, Earth, Wind, and Fire, beautiful women, polar bears, Britney Spears, Thicke, girls from the south, girls from the north, K-fed, speed-dating the list of inspiration is never ending...
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Type of Label: Major

My Blog

New Feel Good Mix up now! Free!

Yes, yes y'all I just put together a new feel good mix of great new and old stuff. It features new tracks from:Andre 3000, Kanye and Fonzworth BentleyTreasure FingersJamie LidellPlantlifeRick RossIt'...
Posted by on Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:23:00 GMT

PRESS

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0813,friday-3-28,389193,2.h tml
Posted by on Tue, 06 May 2008 09:54:00 GMT

Weekly Classic

Yo, Time to do some time travelin. Mos Def's the dude. His body of work is pretty incredible. Very few has the ability to say what he says how he says it."memories don't live like people do/ They ...
Posted by on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:12:00 GMT

mini-mix

Alot of you have been asking for this, so here it is;http://www.zshare.net/audio/675174071c8a68/it's a mini mix of some of the track I'm diggin right now. More tocome. At this link you can download ...
Posted by on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:59:00 GMT

Kid Sister Remix

Ch-ch-check it out! Rok One and I just finished up our remix of Kid Sister's song "Damn Girl." Kid Sister is the next big thing! Shout to A - trak for being so generous and giving us the accapella t...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:17:00 GMT

Batista Bro's On the Lot submission...

check it out http://films.thelot.com/films/26611Andrew directed, wrote and edited, Alex and the rest of the family acted, and I did the soundtrack! Thanks!
Posted by on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:06:00 GMT

Miss Candace Jones..

Got some new stuff posted from the Candace Jones sessions. I posted a few of the songs as samples. The stuff is fire, believe it! Other than that keeping it moving, just got back from the Power Sum...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:57:00 GMT

Soundtrack and film scoring

I have been keeping quite busy putting together music for short films and indie projects. If you are working on a project hit me up, I might have something in my catalogue that would fit what you are...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:05:00 GMT

Great new stuff...

What up world. Not sure if anyone reads this. I just arrived back in NYC after a cool trip to Pittsburgh and Philly. I have posted a new song we produced featuring a vocalist by the name of Kaaren ...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Nov 2005 23:15:00 GMT

What I been doing...

Feeling good! Just finished my production demo. So stay tuned I'll be previewing tons of new stuff, through this wild cheap vehicle of mass exposure. I'd love to hear what you think. I also just f...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:02:00 GMT