I am singer/songwriter based out of Nashville, TN. My "official" Bio follows:
Dean MadoniaBorn and raised Kalamazoo Michigan, Dean is both a musician, and a visual artist. He has been playing piano professionally since age 8 when he began performing during his musician father's breaks at the local Ramada Inn piano bar. Picking up the guitar at age 13, Dean performed his originals in various coffeehouses throughout high-school and while attending Central Michigan University. At Central, he starred for two seasons in a local PBS children's television show Acorns and Oak-trees, where he was required to write and perform a song live each week for an audience of faculty children. Moving to South Florida in the eighties,
Dean performed and recorded with over 40 original and cover bands and opened for such diverse acts as: New Grass Revival, Steve Vai, Dee Dee Ramone, Company B, Dottie West, and Ygnwie Malmsteen.In the 90's, Dean's original band Third Wish/Wyscan, (featuring legendary rock and jazz guitarist Jonathan Kreisberg) released a three song self- titled EP as Third Wish and a full length CD also titled Third Wish when they changed their name to Wyscan. Third Wish was distributed mostly in Japan through jazz/fusion guitarist Bon Lozago's label, Lo Lo Records . On completion of that CD,
Dean left Wyscan to start his own label, Soft Monkey Music and to record and release his first solo CD, Deep Sky which was released to rave reviews in 1998.Dean began to concentrate more on writing while working in Jon Secada's production studio Heaven Studios in North Miami with producer/engineer Charles Dye and has four songs under single song contract with Emilio Estefan's company, Foreign Imported Publishing . Dean has been making trips to Nashville to write and perform since 1999, and finally settled here in 2002 where he has made a living playing
music, performing as a solo act, with his band, and with many Nashville stars including; Skye Moore, Julie Roberts, Gary Allan and Billy Currington.Dean's song "Honor Is Ours" (co-written with friends Scott Avery and Keith Ridenour) will be on the soundtrack for the film, "Foodfight!""Foodfight!"is an animated film by Threshold Entertainment and Lion's Gate Films directed by Lawrence Kasanoff and starring the voices of: Charlie Sheen, Hilary Duff, Greg Ellis, Haylie Duff, Eva Longoria, Christopher Lloyd, Chris Kattan, and Wayne Brady among others. The track was recorded here in Nashville at the Soft Monkey Music studio and features Dean on Vocals!LATEST NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:"Foodfight!" is now scheduled for release sometime between September and the spring of 2009! More Stuff... I was featured on the "Eclectic Mix" Podcast!
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DEAN MADONIA: The Light Of Reason @ Apple iTunes
DEAN MADONIA: Deep Sky @ Apple iTunesDEAN MADONIA: Madness And Desire, One Night In America @ Apple iTunesOr you can order up some freshly wrapped pearls of plastic from my buddy Derek Sivers at CD Baby!.. -- -- CDBABY LINK for DEAN MADONIA: The Light Of Reason --.. -- -- CDBABY LINK for DEAN MADONIA: Madness And Desire, One Night In America --.. -- -- CDBABY LINK for DEAN MADONIA: Deep Sky --
