EREN CANNATA
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HEY JUST SO ALL YOU GUYS KNOW IN THE PIX I AM THE 2ND GUY FROM THE TOP.
EREN CANNATAHave you performed in front of an audience?------Our Next Shows------
WE HAD SUCH AN OVERWHELMING RESPONSE FROM OUR 11/30/02 SHOW THAT THE BITTEREND ASKED US BACK!
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WE WILL BE AT THE BITTEREND ONCE A MOUTH WE WILL KEEP YOU POSTED WITH THE DATES SO STAY TUNED
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EREN CANNATA
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"There's an infamous picture of me between ages one and two, sitting at the console in my dad's studio," begins eighteen-year-old Eren Cannata, Richie Cannata's prodigious son. "At age two, I did a recording session with my dad. I sang 'Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star'....All throughout childhood, I would write funny love songs." The younger Cannata often accompanied dad when he was on tour. "When dad played with the Beach Boys, we both got up on stage and I played sax and percussion. That experience sparked my interest in becoming a professional musician," he acknowledges. Having spent much of his youth at dad's side in the studio, Eren learned the technical as well as artistic side of music. He is self-taught on guitar as well as drums and percussion (which he says he learned "through osmosis"). Richie taught his enthusiastic son to play the saxophone. Eren likewise studied piano and clarinet in the third grade. In high school, he concentrated on voice, and became president of the glee club as well as musical director of the school.
In addition to his musical gifts, Eren, a self-proclaimed "ham", is also a veteran actor. "For several years, I was on 'As The World Turns' 'til I was six-and-a-half. I was cute and an easy baby to work with. I was a friendly kid, too," he says proudly. "I also did a movie with Richard Bradford called, 'Under the Cover of Darkness'. It was filmed on location in Upstate New York." Fast-forward to adolescence: around age thirteen, Eren started his own band with his friends. "The songs weren't great, but they were getting there!" he notes. "We were called Loose Cannon, and we played at high school dances, parks and bars. It was a lot of fun. The guitar player and I co-wrote all the songs. Eventually, we called it quits after a couple of years. There were complications...normal kid's stuff, like school problems, schedule problems, doctor's appointments, et cetera." Eren decided to set up a Pro-Tools studio in his basement, concentrating on playing guitar and writing songs by himself. "My dad noticed the songs sounded really good....I kept writing and dad thought my material was getting better," he says. "I made friends with a bass player who was a graduate from Berkley School of Music in Boston. We started doing shows together. It was just acoustic guitar and bass. We did covers and originals. One thing led to another and people started responding everywhere, like at CBGB's Gallery and Circa New York." Soon the duo added a guitarist and a drummer, and the band debuted their first gig in Manhattan, at Le Bar Bat. "I started writing more songs and I now have ten songs in place for an album," he says. Another highlight for Eren, in early 2003, was the day he was notified that he had been accepted into a brand-new program offered at New York University (NYU) in Manhattan. Eren explains. "We heard that Clive Davis was donating money to start a recorded music program at NYU...so we looked into it. I definitely thought, 'I want to go there!' Thousands of kids applied and I was one of twenty-five who were accepted. I submitted my portfolio around the Christmas holidays, and by February, I knew I'd been chosen." NYU is renowned for producing some pretty fancy graduates, like Lorne Michaels, Spike Lee and Martin Scorsese, who were all students in NYU's flagship film class, and Eren affirms that "NYU anticipates similar things from the recorded music program. It's going to be a historic year for them. Again." The extravagant portfolio which he sent to NYU opens up with that picture of Eren the toddler sitting at the console. "That was my selling point!" he laughs. "I included reviews of my shows in the portfolio. I put in an essay I'd written on 'Who Is Influential in the Music Industry"; I did mine on Elvis Presley. I included two resumes, one artistic and the other, academic. In the portfolio, I placed a cd of my song 'Part of Me' - which will probably be the single. I sent in photographs. I had two letters of recommendation from men who are very influential in the music industry: Rick Wake, V.P. of Epic Records (and my dad's studio partner who's seen me grow up), as well as Bob D'loren, who is an alumnus of NYU and owner and CEO of UCC Capital. I also included a tribute called 'Stronger Men', which I'd written for two people I knew from high school who died together in a car accident. 'Stronger Men' was played at their funeral mass." Come September, in concert with his studies at NYU, Eren's five-song master demo as well as a sampler video for the single, "Part of Me", are poised to go out to radio. Eren is vice president of his own record label, Brown Dog Records and he will do a joint venture with Vibe Records, founded by CEO, Tim Olphie. Of his ascent into the limelight, Eren Cannata - who says "my emotion is portrayed in my songs" - offers the following: "It has happened very quickly and pleasurably....There has been no down period!"pbryan's station
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