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Bio info:
Marcy Italiano works as a Web Designer by day. If you need a website made
for you, please visit The Web Lizard.
By night, she is a writer of dark fiction and non-fiction. To find out
more about her writing please visit her personal
website.
Musically:
Marcy grew up playing piano. She was classically trained to the Grade
Eight level and started to compose until she gave it up in high school.
Marcy also spent many years singing in church choirs, as well as singing
in a play at her high school for a couple of years. When she met Giasone,
they worked together for the first time and wrote a song that Marcy sang
at her high school graduation. Once they reached University, Giasone invited
Marcy to play bass for his band, Home Brew, which later became Bertha's
Attic.
Years later, Marcy started attending songwriting conferences and songwriting
groups with Giasone both in Waterloo and Toronto. She intially contributed
lyric ideas and slowly started to collaborate on musical ideas as well.
This lead to the writing of "Every Day is Mother's Day" which
received Honourable Mention in the Unisong contest in 2005. With her dark
fiction writing background, Marcy was thrilled to work on the Johnny Gruesome
Project. She is presently taking up piano again and has returned to singing.
Marcy was Classically trained, but she is also familiar with (and really
enjoys) of Jazz, Blues, Adult Contemporary, Folk, Rock, Heavy Metal, Punk,
Raggae... but she's not really a fan of Country music. She can write it,
but she's not going to necessarily like it.
Places/CDs where her music/perfoming has appeared:
* Songs of Innocence and of Experience (2008)
* Johnny Gruesome - Gruesome (2007)
* Songs Under Starlight (2006)
* Bertha’s Attic “Stuff” (1996)
* Taster ‘95 (1995 Wilfrid Laurier compilation) "Hermit"
* Garage Sale Junkies (1995 Kitchener compilation) "Let it Fly"
* Campus Grown ‘94 (1994 Wilfrid Laurier compilation) "In The
Mix"
Member of:
SOCAN / ASCAP
since 2007
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Bio Info:
Giasone Italiano works as a teacher by day. He is currently at
the U-Turn program helping troubled high school students get back on track
in the Public School System. He loves football, horror movies and playing
his guitar.
Musically:
Giasone Italiano is a singer/songwriter who has been writing
and performing music for almost 20 years. His 1999 album titled "No
Need To Compromise" was followed by his 2001 release "Lizards
And Love Songs." He finished 4th in the 2003 Unisong International
Song Contest for his song "Home (A Soldier's Song)" competing
directly with about 1000 applicants in the Country/Folk category. Giasone
has recently been chosen as a featured artist on two compilation albums
"Peace Songs for a Better World 2" and the now sold out "Songs
Under Starlight" album with all proceeds going directly to the Starlight
Starbright Children's Foundation of Canada. He also released a new CD
of original material "In Search For The Perfect Line" in the
spring of 2005.
Highlights and Awards include:
* Awarded 2 certificates of achievement in the 2000 Unisong International
Song Contest. His songs "For The First Time" and "Give
Me A Try", both featured on his 2001 release, were recognized for
making it to the final voting round out of almost 4000 competing songs.
* Awarded a 1998 Professional Publisher's and Song writing Demo Award
from FACTOR. (Canadian government artistic grant.)
* Awarded a certificate of achievement from the 1998 Unisong International
Song Contest for the songs "Can't Deny Heaven" and "For
The Ride", that were part of the FACTOR funded CD.
* Awarded a certificate of achievement for the song "Hard To Be Hateful"
at the 1997 Unisong International Song Contest.
* Awarded a showcase at the 1997 NXNE (North by North East) music festival
in Toronto with his band Bertha's Attic.
Places/CDs where his music/performing has appeared:
* Songs of Innocence and of Experience (2008)
* Johnny Gruesome - Gruesome (2007)
* Songs Under Starlight (2006)
* Peace Songs for a Better World 2 (2006)
* Glynn Abbott "Folk Songs" (2005)
* Film Score for "Hatred of the Wheel" by Anton Volcancek-(2003)
* Critical Mass “Faith Looks Up” (1997)
* Bertha’s Attic “Stuff” (1996)
* Taster ‘96 (1996 Wilfrid Laurier compilation)
* National Chaos (1996 Canadian compilation)
* Taster ‘95 (1995 Wilfrid Laurier compilation)
* Garage Sale Junkies (1995 Kitchener compilation)
* Campus Grown ‘94 (1994 Wilfrid Laurier compilation)
Member of:
SOCAN / ASCAP
since 1996
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