About Me
Emiliano Almeida is a professional musician: drummer, percussionist, arranger, composer and producer, who has achieved an extraordinarily successful career internationally as a recording artist and a live performer.He grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he is regarded as one of the most accomplished musician/drummer/percussionist's of his generation.Since the age of twenty-one, he has been performing with acclaimed artists in national and international music scene, including for example, playing, arranging and composing music for the Sony Play Station video game "Spyro" (sharing credits with Steward Copeland), Ricky Martin's "Living la Vida Loca" world tour video, and recording on the Grammy Awarded Album "Bajo Fondo Tango Club".Mr Almeida's playing has been featured on recordings for such prestigious labels as Sony, Warner, Universal, and Polygram.His unique style and sound come from a vast knowledge of Latin American folkloric instruments and rhythms, combined with his specialization in urban music, popular grooves, and electronic music. At the same time, during the last years he has gained great experience in the whole modern recording process (tracking techniques, software utilization, sound processing, etc.) making him a self contained artist.As a producer, he won the Coachella Music Awards for Best Latin Pop Production/Band with the album "Que Tiene la Vida" (Desert Music 2004) by Fronteras, which he produced, arranged and recorded.As a musician, he performed in the following live shows:- Rubicon Theatre Company: "Tic...Tic... Boom!" 6 weeks at the Coronet Theatre (2006) and "The Man of La Mancha" 8 weeks at the Rubicon Theatre (2006)- "Mondays of Cabaret" at The Hayworth Theatre (2006-07)- Nicholas Gunn (new age) One of the world's best seling flutist (Platinum artist: 2,000,000 albums) Shows at The Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza and La Velee- David Arkenstone (instrumental) three times Grammy Nominations, over a million records sold, shows at The Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza- Loren Gold (instrumental) Musical Director for Hillary Duff and Taylor Hicks (American Idol) shows at The Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza- Jennifer Peña (latin pop) two Grammy Nominations, more than 3.5 million records sold, live TV performances (Univision)- Faramarz Aslani, one of the most world wide famous Persian singer/songwriter, and Ardeshir Farah, one of the best guitar player in the Persian community, best known by his duo "Strunz & Farah". Performing at the Club Bellagio (2006)- Sonjia Marie (hip-hop) Featured artist at Baby Face's soundtrack for "Waiting to Exhale" (2002)- "Chicago" the Musical (2000)among others.and performed for the following recordings:- Soundtrack for "Conversations With God" (Emilio Kauderer Inc. for CWG Films 2005)- Holiday On Ice "Diamond" (with former The Police and award-winning artist Steward Copeland) (Holiday On Ice Productions 2003)Soundtrack for "Spyro" Sony Playstation video game (Emilio Kauderer Inc. 2004)- "Bajo Fondo Tango Club" (Universal Records) Latin Grammy 2003 as Best Instrumental Pop album, Gardel Award (Argentinean equivalent of the "Grammy") 2002 as Best Dance/Electronic album, Gold certified (in Argentina) 2002among others.
