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Cheri

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About Me

Cheri Spinazzola, formerly Cheri Loope, is an accomplished rock singer and keyboardist. I've been playing rock 25 years now, started when I was 18. I began playing piano at age 5, played clarinet through college receiving a music scholarship to University of Tennessee. While in college, I decided that rock n roll was the life for me. Joined a band in Knoxville, TN that ended up touring the Titak torture tour in the Southeast in 1984. That band was Armoured Charm. I also played with White Wing, The Zoo, Cheri Loope and the Living Daylights, Lois Lane and then Avalanche.Avalanche opened for Black Crowes in Michigan in 1990, which was the most awesome show I have ever been honored to perform. 5,000 people were there. We also opened for Ace Frehley, Smithereens and more.I left the road in 1991 after 8 long years. Got married, and tried to "make it" in Nashville in rock (yeah right). While living in Nashville, I played with an oldies band, Fade to Black, for nine years. During that period, we played with many big name singers and also performed in the Arena for the Nashville Predators hockey game. It was the Red Wings game with 17,500 people in attendance. Only in Nashville would a live band play in the middle of a hockey game!While in Nashville, I also worked in commercial property management for 15 years including managing a 1.2 million square foot mall in Nashville next to the Grand Ole Opry. I am married to Mike Spinazzola, and we have two wonderful sons, Jake,13 and Trey,5. We recently moved to Florida, and here we go again!I am going back to the basics now. I love music, so I am doing it full time for the first time in 16 years. I have a new rock band called MeanStreak. We play the cool stuff I played back in the 80s like Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Ratt, etc. Life is grand!

My Interests

Music:

Zeppelin, Van Halen (Dave years only), Janis Joplin, Aerosmith, Dokken

Movies:



My Blog

Cool gig comin’ up....

I am so stoked.  We are going to be playing at County Line Saloon, which is basically the biggest bar and stage in Melbourne.  Cool beans!  I need all my buddies and their buddies to co...
Posted by Cheri on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:02:00 PST

New gigs

Man, it's too cool.  I've booked six gigs so far.  I'm loving this!   It's so fun playing rock every week once again.  You've gotta come see us live!  It's phenomenal!&nb...
Posted by Cheri on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:11:00 PST

Doing it full time, babeee!!

Yep, I've decided to play music for a living for the first time since 1991.  I thought since I've been doing it for 25 years, that's what I'm most experienced in!  Plus I love it so much.&nb...
Posted by Cheri on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 06:59:00 PST

New band

Man, my new band ROCKS!  We had to change from Cherry Bomb to MEAN STREAK because it had been used many times before.  Bummer.  But these guys are so talented.  You guys are gonna ...
Posted by Cheri on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 07:51:00 PST