Vincenzo Thomas Amato grew up in the Reno & Lake Tahoe area. Vincenzo moved to Los Angeles, CA in 1996 and founded the band SUPER J for whom he played in for 7 years before going out on his own as a solo singer/songwriter. Vincenzo now performs with these amazingly talented players in various forms... Seth Hall on sax, Eliza James, on violin, Chad Gendason on guitar, Allen Mascari on sax, & Rod Castro on guitar.
Vincenzo has opened & performed with some of the most prominent bands in the music industry: FISHBONE, Billy Idol, The Samples, Hoobustank, Slightly Stoopid, Pepper, Peter Cornell, The Starfuckers, Lavish Green, Hemlock, Bargain Music, Warsaw, Keyser Soze, Gooding, Raffael Moreira... just to name a few.
More recently, you can hear Vincenzo's music all over the 2006 winter release of: AU: A Snowboarding film. This film follows the members of the 2006 US Snowboarding Team as they train, compete and live the dream as being the top riders in the world. * FEATURED RIDERS: Abe Teter, Hannah Teter, Elijah Teter, Steve Fisher, Elena Hight, Clair Bidez, Danny Davis, Tommy Cezeschin, Keir Dillon, & Seth Wescott.
Vincenzo performed at X-GAMES 11 on August 5th, 2005 at The Staples Center in LA. Performing with... Pennywise, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Dead Kennedys, SX-10 with Slash, Tego Calderon, Death By Stereo, Bif Naked, The Wylde Bunch, DJ Z-Trip, Bang Sugar Bang, The Uprising, The Beach Side Stranglers, The Mad Caddies, Atzlan Underground, Nebula, 2MEX & Friends, Patados, Dumbluck, & Death By Stereo.
You can see Vincenzo in the January, 2006 issue of HUSTLER MAGAZINE, where he is featured, performing at X-GAMES 11 on August 5th, 2005 at The Staples Center in Los Angeles, CA.
Vincenzo's national TV debut came in 2000 on the Jenny Jones Show performing the single, “Mr. Magoo†with his old band, Super J. Since then, Vincenzo's music has been heard on the following TV shows: The X-Games, Fox’s 54321, The Vans Triple Crown Series, Fuel TV and many other action sports shows.
In 2000, Vincenzo started Bandwagon Productions, an independent, full-service music company which specializes in background music placement for television. Bandwagon's domination of music placement for extreme sport shows can be heard on the following shows: The X-Games, FOX's 54321, The Vans Triple Crown Series, The US Open Of Snowboarding, The Professional Surfing Tour Of America, Blue Torch TV, FUEL TV, Re:Evolution TV, Adrenalina TV, M-80 TV, MTV's Road Rules, MTV's Real World, The Freeride Moto-X, The Sims World Cup Of Snowboarding, The THQ Supercross GP Series, The AMA Supercross Series, The X-Surf Series, The ESPN Moto-X Championships, Heavenly Ski Resort's webiste... just to name a few.
Vincenzo has remained cutting edge in his own music & style, and is currently un-signed and self managed… but his ears & mind are always open to opportunities!
VTA currently performs with SETH HALL on the saxophone as an acoustic duo Booking info call: Bandwagon Productions @ 818-207-9930
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