Dean Madonia
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Dean is a songwriter, performer, producer and visual artist born and
raised Kalamazoo Michigan and currently living in Nashville, TN. He has
been playing piano professionally since age 8 when he began to perform
between his father's sets at the local hotel piano bar. Learning guitar
at age 13, he performed his originals in various coffeehouses and bars
throughout high-school and while attending Central Michigan University,
majoring in art, minoring in music. There he appeared for two seasons
in anPublic Television children's television show, "Acorns and
Oak-trees," where he wrote and performed a song live each week dealing
with that week's topic. He moved to Florida in the 80s and performed
and recorded with over 40 original and cover bands. He has opened for
such diverse acts as: New Grass Revival, Steve Vai, Dee Dee Ramone,
Company B, Dottie West, The Romantics, and Ygnwie Malmsteen . In the
90's, Dean's original progressive rock band, Third Wish/Wyscan released
a three song self- titled EP and a full length compact disc also titled
Third Wish which was distributed through jazz/fusion/prog guitarist,
Bon Lozago's label, Lo Lo Records . Dean left Wyscan in 1995 to record
and his first solo effort, Deep Sky, released in 1998 to excellent
reviews. He spent two years at Jon Secada's production studio Heaven
Studios working with ProTools guru and producer Charles Dye and "Dove"
award-winning songwriter Tom McWilliams. There he writing, recording
and producing for different music projects. In 2002, Dean relocated to
Nashville to focus more on writing where he makes a living writing,
performing as a solo act, playing dueling pianos, or with his band.His
song "(I Called Her) Tennessee" was recorded and released as a single
by Tim Dugger on Curb Records in the fall of 2012 and peaked at #40 on
the Music Row chart. He has had many songs in movies and commercials
including, "Honor Is Ours," in "Foodfight!" in 2013 and "Just Like
Love," from the album "Evergreen" (by his other band, "Pretty Little
Horses"), in the 2013 movie "The Stream." In 2014 he released a 29
song, progressive rock influenced, concept work based on Mary Shelley's
"Frankenstein," called, "Shadow To Shadow, Dean Madonia's
Frankenstein," to favorable reviews.