BIOGRAPHY
Chris Catena is italian singer with almost 20 years of experience. In 2004 he released the album "Freak Out", a melange of hard rock of the seventies, funk, freak, metal, blues featuring an impressive list of special guests such as Glenn Hughes, Doug Wimbish, Stevie Salas, Bruce Kulick, Tony Franklin, Tommy Aldridge, Eric Singer, Myron Dove, Virgil Donati, Jeff Scott Soto, Vitalij Kuprij and many others. He features in few projects such as "Moonstone" (with Glenn Hughes, Graham Bonnet, Ian Paice, Tony Franklin), "Radioactive" (Tommy Denander's album) or Vitalij Kuprij's album called "REVENGE" with Joe Lynn Turner, Goran Edman and Doogie White. He also features on Versailles Records "Just Like Paradise: A Millennium Tribute to David Lee Roth"and "Too Fast fo Love : A Millennium tribute to Motley Crue" where teaming up with guitarists Blues Saraceno and Michael Gapys he performs song called "Goin' Crazy"and "Power to the Music". Currently Chris is ready to release his second album named "DISCOVERY"a concept featuring among the others Bobby Kimball, Earl Slick, Pat Travers, Victor Indrizzo, Martyn Lenoble, Carmine Appice, Uriah Duffy, Tony Franklin, Bruce Kulick, Tommy Denander, Janne Stark, Michael Gapys just to name a few. He also took part to several other tribute compilations and features on the japanese release of "Radioactive - Taken " album. Chris is also working with friends Michael Gapys, Janne Stark and Marco Fedele on the debut album of a brand new band called TEENAGE RAMPAGE. On june 2007 Versailles records released only for the US an enlarged (2 Cd set) edition of Freak Out! with the title of "Booze, Brawds and rockin hard" including unreleased studio tracks and the live ep"Still alive and freakin?...Live rough in Rome" recorded in Rome on January 2004...
Discography:
- Freak out ! - Imr/Frontiers
- Freak out tonight single ep - Imr/Frontiers
- Blackmore's castle volume 2 (tribute to ritchie blackmore) - Lion Music
- Freak out ! - japan edition with bonus track - Nippon Crown
- Tony braschi - Rock blues experience - Timeslord records
- Pavic - Taste some liberty - Anteo records
- Vitalij Kuprij - Revenge - Marquee/Avalon
- Radioactive - Taken - MTM
- Just like Paradise - a Millennium Tribute to David Lee Roth - Versailles Records
- Mountain of Power - Grooveyard Records
- Three Lock Box - A millennium tribute to Sammy Hagar - Versailles Records
- Moonstone Project - Time to take a stand - Majestic Records
- Chris Catena - Booze, Brawds and Rockin' hard - Versailles Records
- Too fast for love - A millennium tribute to Motley Crue - Versailles Records
- Mind's Eye - A Gentleman Hurricane - Lion Music
- Overdrive - Let the Metal do the talking - Lion Music
- Chris Catena - Born Again EP - IMR/Glitter and Gold Productions - Only Digital
- Vitalij Kuprij - Glacial Inferno/Revenge - 2CD - Lion Music
- Sweden Rock Compilation - Teenage Rampage feat. Chris Catena
- Race Track Rock Complilation - Teenage Rampage feat. Chris Catena
To be released:
- Chris Catena - Discovery - Escape Music
- It's so easy - A Millennium Tribute to Guns and Roses - Teenage Rampage feat. Chris Catena - Versailles Records
- Slip of the Tongue - A Millennium tribute to whitesnake - Versailles Records
- Pavic - New Album - Anteo Records
- A Millennim Tribute to Led Zeppelin - Pavic (feat. Chris Catena) and Chris Catena - Versailles Records
- A Millennium Tribute to Kiss - Teenage Rampage feat. Chris Catena - Versailles Records
- Teenage Rampage - Rough'n'ready - tba
Musicians Chris Catena cooperated with :
Blues Saraceno (Poison), Stevie Salas (Mick Jagger, George Clinton, Rod Stewart) , Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple, Black Sabbath), Tony Franklin (Whitesnake, Blue Murder, The Firm), Bobby Kimball (Toto), James Christian (The House of Lords), Pat Travers, Earl Slick (David Bowie), Victor Indrizzo (Depeche Mode, Macy Gray, Paul Stanley, Avril Levigne, Beck, Chris Cornell, The Vines) , Bernie Marsden (Whitesnake), Tommy Aldridge (Whitesnake, Ozzy Osbourne), Doug Bossi (David Coverdale), Timothy Drury (Eagles, Whitesnake), Doug Aldrich (Whitesnake), Doug Wimbish (Living Colour, Rolling Stones, Madonna), Myron Dove (Santana, Stevie Wonder, Quincy Jones), Dave Meniketti (Y & T), Jeff Scott Soto (Y. Malmsteen, Talisman, Journey), Vitalij Kuprij (Ring of Fire, Artension), Doogie White (Rainbow, Y. Malmsteen, Empire), Kee Marcello (Europe), John Lawton (Uriah Heep), Virgil Donati, Uriah Duffy (Chrristina Aguilera, Whitesnake), Tommy Denander (Paul Stanley), Martyn LeNoble (Cult, Porno for Pyros, Jane's Addiction), Bruce Kulick (Kiss), Eric Singer (Kiss, Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath), Churck Wright (Quiet Riot, House of Lords), Chester Thompson (Genesis, Weather Report, Phil Collins), John Taylor (Duran Duran), Carmine Appice (Vanilla Fudge, Blue Murder), Stephen Ferrone (Michael Jackson, Averagee White Band, Duran Duran), Al Kooper (Jimy Hendrix, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan), Eric Bloom (Blue Oyster Cult), Ian Paice (Deep Purple), Steve Walsh (Kansas), Dick Wagner (Alice Cooper), Marco Mendoza (Ted Nugent, Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy), Micky Moody (Whitesnake), Kelly Simonz, Johnny Olhin (Nation, Dyonisius), Daniel Flores, Michael Gapys, Nobby (Nation, Dyonisius), Frank de Groot, Vivien Lalu, Hakan Granat, Janne Stark (Overdrive, Locomotive Breath), Marko Pavic, Randy Coven, Benny Jansson, Peter Svensson, Mathias Garnas, Daniel Palmqvist, Joop Wolters, Johan Niemann (Therion) and others
