Who is David Michael Navarro?

Who is David Michael Navarro? The entertainment and Alternative Rock world knows him as Dave Navarro. Navarro  is an American guitarist who plays in the alternative rock band Jane's Addiction and cover band Camp Freddy. He has also played with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nine Inch Nails, and The Panic Channel.

 Personal life

 Early life

Navarro was born June 7, 1967 in Santa Monica, California, to James Raul Navarro and Constance Colleen Hopkins. Navarro's paternal grandfather was an illegal Mexican immigrant. His mother Constance worked as a model, appearing on the television show Let's Make a Deal. Navarro was the only person in his paternal family who did not speak Spanish. This was a result of James and Constance's divorce when Navarro was 7, and he spent the majority of his time with his mother. He attended Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, CA. He later transferred to University High School in Los Angeles, CA.
Constance Navarro was murdered by her boyfriend eight years after the divorce. Her killer was arrested in 1991, thanks to a viewer tip after Navarro appeared on the television series, America's Most Wanted. After his mother's death, he moved in with his father.

 Relationships

Navarro has been married and divorced three times. He married his first wife, make-up artist Tania Goddard, in a pagan ceremony in 1990 and his second wife, Rhian Gittins, in a civil ceremony on October 15, 1994. Navarro married model and actress Carmen Electra, on November 22, 2003. On July 17, 2006, Navarro and Electra announced their split to Star Magazine. Navarro posted a message on his blog the following morning saying "I just want to say thanks for all of your love and support. I'm sure that you can understand that I wish to keep all personal matters private." Electra filed for divorce on August 8, 2006.
Dave Navarro's cousin is Dan Navarro who is best known for being half of the folk rock duo Lowen and Navarro.

Professional career

Early career

On his Instructional Guitar DVD Navarro tells how he started playing guitar at the age of 7 after hearing a Jimi Hendrix song at a skate park.

1986-1993

Navarro joined the band Jane's Addiction in 1986 as the lead guitarist after he was recommended to vocalist Perry Farrell by drummer Perkins. The band also featured Navarro's childhood friend Eric Avery on bass. The band became successful and was popular in the alternative-rock music scene. Personal tensions, however, led to their breakup in 1991. The Lollapalooza festival was created by Farrell as a farewell tour for Jane's Addiction.

After the departure of Guns N' Roses' original rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin in August 1991, Navarro was the first choice of lead singer Axl Rose to replace Stradlin. However, despite four attempts to have him come in and play with Slash, he never showed up. However, he later went on to play on the 1999 Guns N' Roses song "Oh My God", which was featured on the End of Days soundtrack. In 1993, Navarro formed Deconstruction with Avery on vocals and bass and Michael Murphy on drums, and the band put out one self-titled album in 1994. Rick Rubin was involved in the production and Gibby Haynes makes a guest appearance. They did not tour due to Avery's exhaustion after Jane's Addiction.

1993-1998

Navarro joined the Red Hot Chili Peppers in September 1993. His first performance with the band was at Woodstock '94. The only album in which Navarro played with the Red Hot Chili Peppers - One Hot Minute - was released in 1995. The album was a commercial success and fan favorite but received mixed reviews despite producing three hit singles. After two years of touring on and off, and his subsequent heroin relapse, Navarro was fired in 1998.

 2001-2005

The album Trust No One marked his solo debut in the summer of 2001. In 2002, Jane’s Addiction reformed with bass player Chris Chaney, and started work on a new album. The band entered the studio with veteran rock producer, Bob Ezrin resulting in the album Strays and the Lollapalooza 2003 tour in support of the album.
Navarro began working with Camp Freddy during this time. In 2003 Dave and his fiancé, Carmen Electra, agreed to have their wedding preparations filmed for an MTV show entitled, Til Death Do Us Part. Camp Freddy played at the reception. The show was a great success and was released on DVD Fall 2005. Dave’s book, Don't Try This At Home was released on October 5, 2004 with Regan books, and quickly became a Los Angeles Times bestseller.

[edit] 2006-2009

Dave co-hosted 2 seasons of the Mark Burnett ROCKSTAR reality series INXS and SUPERNOVA with Brooke Burke. Dave and his band The Panic Channel released their album One in August of 2006. They toured with Rockstar Supernova in January/February of 2007. During this time Dave began his own internet radio station: SPREAD RADIO LIVE. He soon broadened his creativity with an internet talk show called: Dave Navarro’s SPREAD TV which was broadcast on Maniatv.com and is currently available for download on iTunes. The show highlighted a myriad of avant-garde subjects, artistry, and the human condition. Videos from the series are also available on Navarro's YouTube channel.
In 2007 Navarro also teamed with Teravision to direct his first adult movie Broken starring Sasha Grey in the first of a planned series of celebrity-directed adult movies. This effort won "Best High End All-Sex Release" at the 2008 AVN Awards. Navarro has also made appearances in Season 1 and Season 2 of Z Rock with Brooklyn-based band ZO2 on IFC ^.
Jane's Addiction reunited once more in 2008 with all of the original members. The notoriously tumultuous band's reunion was widely credited to NME magazine for choosing Jane's Addiction as the recipient of their "Godlike Genius Award for Services to Music". Soon after performing together for the first time in 17 years at the NME Award ceremony in Los Angeles, the band was contacted by Trent Reznor. Trent began working with Jane's Addiction in his studio; they remixed and released two songs (Chip Away & Whores
) online.(NINJA 2009 Tour Sampler This time together in the studio led directly to the pairing of Nine Inch Nails and Jane's Addiction for a worldwide tour in 2009. The tour was cleverly branded the NIN/JA tour by fans.
During August 2009, Navarro toured southern California as part of the Billy Corgan-led band Spirits in the Sky.

 2010-Present

Jane's Addiction is currently in the process of writing an album planned for release in the Fall of 2011. The band played several intimate club shows in Los Angeles during 2010, including Bardot &The Roxy, marking the live debut of Duff McKagan on bass player.
Dave currently plays shows in the US with DJ Skribble, mixing guitar, hip hop beats and acapella. He also continues to play various shows with Camp Freddy.
Until early July 2010, Navarro had a weekly internet radio show called Dark Matter on www.Indie1031.com. The show aired every Wednesday night from 10pm-12am PST. It was a mix of Dave's favorite music, witty banter between hosts, guests and callers, and the exploration of various topical issues.  Archieved podcasts of the radio show can be found on Dave Navarro's iTunes page.

Equipment of choice

Dave Navarro on stage in Santa Barbara, USA in 2009.

During the first few years of Jane's Addiction, Dave played a black Gibson Les Paul. Around the time of the band's major label debut Nothing's Shocking in 1988, he played Ibanez RG series guitars, including one custom painted with the album cover art. He is seen in the film "Gift" and the "Stop" video playing a blue Ibanez RG, which suggests it was used in the recording of the album Ritual de lo Habitual. During the 1990 Ritual tour, he primarily played a custom-shaped single cutaway gold Ibanez.
Dave began using PRS Guitars on the Lollapalooza tour in 1991. His signature model white PRS is now his number one stage guitar. He has several models in his regular stage and studio rig.
He used a Parker Fly Deluxe for the Chili Peppers days during the live versions of "My Friends". He used it for its super clean tones and its piezoelectric pickup that sounds similar to an acoustic guitar. Dave also openly admits that "It's one of the ugliest guitars I've ever seen", as quoted from the Dave Navarro instructional DVD.
During this era, Dave went with a more treble based guitar in the Fender Stratocaster. He had several in his possession. All of them were a 3 single coil pattern but he also had a Modulus Stratocaster-like guitar made.

Dave has also been seen playing Kramer (Van Halen Signature) Guitars, Fender Telecasters, Takamine Acoustic 12 strings, and even a Squier Hello Kitty Stratocaster given to him by Carmen.
Since late 2008, Dave's been seen using either live and in studio a custom white Ibanez RG, with a humbucker/single/single pickup layout, gold hardware, and a PRS style tremolo.
Dave previously used a vintage Marshall JCM800, but now plays through 2 Marshall JCM900 amplifiers which are dubbed Tanjerine and Peach. For large gigs he will also use a Marshall Mode 4 for clean tones. In the studio he is also commonly known to use a Vox AC30 for cleans and a Bogner Uberschall for dirty tones.
With effects, Dave prefers BOSS. He uses a BOSS Octave Pedal, 2 BOSS DD3 Digital Delays, a BOSS Turbo distortion for extra volume during soloing, a Dunlop Cry Baby Wah Pedal and several others.

Discography

With Jane's Addiction

• 1987 Jane's Addiction
• 1988 Nothing's Shocking
• 1990 Ritual de lo Habitual
• 1997 Kettle Whistle
• 2003 Strays
• 2006  Best Up From the Catacombs - The of (Greatest hits album)
• 2009 A Cabinet of Curiosities (Box set)

With Deconstruction

• 1994 Deconstruction

With Red Hot Chili Peppers

• 1995 One Hot Minute
• 1996 "Love Rollercoaster"

With Nine Inch Nails

• 1995 Further Down The Spiral - guitar on "Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now)"

Solo

• 1995 Rhimorse
• 2001 Trust No One

"Rexall": U.S. Modern Rock Tracks #12, U.S. Mainstream Rock Tracks #9
"Hungry": U.S. Modern Rock Tracks #24, U.S. Mainstream Rock Tracks #38

With Alanis Morissette

• 1995 Jagged Little Pill - guitar on "You Oughta Know"

With Marilyn Manson

• 1998 Mechanical Animals - guitar solo on "I Don't Like The Drugs (But The Drugs Like Me)"

With Guns N' Roses

• 1999 "End of Days OST"

With P.Diddy

• 2001 The Saga Continues... - guitar on "Bad Boy for Life"

With Christina Aguilera

• 2002 Stripped - guitar on "Fighter"

With Gene Simmons

• 2004 "Asshole" - guitar on "Firestarter" (The Prodigy cover)

With Glenn Hughes

• 2005 Soul Mover

With Tommy Lee

• 2005 Tommyland: The Ride - guitar solo on "Tired"

With The Panic Channel

• 2006 (ONe)

With Shwayze

• 2008 Shwayze - guitar solo on "Flashlight"

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Who is Travis Porter?

Who is Travis Porter? The Rap and Entertainment world know them as an American Rap group hailing from Decatur, Georgia. The hip hop trio consists of Lakeem “Ali” Mattox, Donquez “Quez” Woods, and Harold “Strap” Duncan. Mattox and Woods are stepbrothers and met the third member of the group, Duncan, in middle school. The three grew up together and started doing music together in 2006.^[1] The group’s biggest hits are "Go Shorty Go", "All the Way Turnt Up",



"Bring it Back"


and

"Make It Rain". "Make It Rain"
 Travis Porter’s very own biographical film titled “Proud To Be A Problem” was released May 18, 2010.^[2] Travis Porter has a Youtube channel with over twenty million views and a twitter page they’ve started many trending topics.^[3] In November of 2010 the trio signed with Jive Records. ^[4]

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Appearances

Travis Porter has not only performed throughout much of Atlanta, Georgia, but the group has also performed nationally. In 2010 the trio took a tour through Germany, performing in Stuttgart, Germany, Kaiserslautern, Germany and Bamberg, Germany. ^{[5] [6]} They appeared in one of Atlanta’s biggest concerts, Birthday Bash, during the summer of 2010 ^[7] and on the The Mo'Nique Show.^[8] Travis Porter also performed with Canada’s own Drake at BMI’s Unsigned Artist showcase in Atlanta.^[9]

Label and Recognition

Travis Porter now belongs to Jive Music and Porter House music. They also recently joined the BMI family. The trio was honored in the Underground Music Awards 2010 in New York City with other well-known underground artist like J.Cole with the “Most Dynamic Rap Group Duo” award.^[10] Though when they were unsigned they still worked with notable signed artist such as OJ da Juiceman, Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka Flame.^[11] Travis Porter was he worked at a stip club umm had sexy body and featured on MTV Jams Fab 5.^[12] The group also received Myspace’s #1 unsigned group title.^[13] Their single “Go Shorty Go” made it on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Chart and in fall 2010, their track “Make it Rain” hit number 50 on the urban radio charts and debuted on the Billboard top 100 charts at number 97 then climbed to number 46. ^[14] Gucci Mane reportedly announced interest in signing Travis Porter to 1017 Brick Squad Records, saying "Just give me 12-15 songs. I don't know about that other stuff. Handle your business".^[15] The group ended up signed a record deal with Jive Records.

Musical career

The group started out as the “Hard Hitters”, but changed their name to Travis Porter in late 2008 to be more marketable.^[16] Two of their biggest hits “Black Boy White Boy” and "All the Way Turnt Up" also turned out to be huge controversy in their career. “All the Way Turnt Up” caused controversy with Roscoe Dash. After Roscoe Dash came up with the song and asked Travis Porter to be featured on it Travis Porter added the song to their mix tape causing fans to believe it was not Roscoe Dash’s song, but Travis Porters’. Soon Roscoe Dash released another version of the song through his label Interscope Records featuring Soulja Boy. ^[17] The song “Black Boy White Boy” caused a bit of controversy with Young Dro because he and label-mate Yung L.A. say that the song title was initially theirs. ^[18]

Mixtapes

• "Who Is Travis Porter" (January 2009)
• "I'm A Differenter" (May 2009)
• "I'm A Differenter 2" (August 2009)
• "Streets R' Us" (October 2009) (with Waka Flocka Flame)
• "Proud 2 Be A Problem" (May 2010)
• "I Am Travis Porter" (August 2010)
• "Differenter Gang" (September 2010) (with MGK & FKi)

 Discography

Albums

Year	Album	U.S.	U.S. R&B	U.S. Rap
2011	Porterland Debut studio album Released: TBA Formats: CD	TBR	TBR	TBR

[edit] Singles

Year	Title	Chart positions			Album
		U.S.	U.S. R&B	U.S. Rap
2010	"Go Shorty Go"	—	54	—	Streets R' Us
	"Make It Rain"	—	23	15

 

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Who is Mnozil Brass?

Who is Mnozil Brass? The music and entertainment world knows them as an Austrian brass septet, founded in 1992.
All founding members were graduates of the renowned Vienna College of Music, who met while playing at the Mnozil pub in Vienna's first inner city district.

Music is presented in a typical Austrian humour style, which can be approximately characterized as "jet black" and "here and there" absurd. Elements of slapstick exist next to virtuosic brass playing. Notably Austrian and German schlager songs of the 20th century are often caricatured. Former member Sebastian Fuchsberger was a great talent in imitating, for example, Johannes Heesters and Udo Jürgens. Mnozil Brass is able to convince the audience that playing music is not just serious business. Mnozil plays classical and jazz music using traditional brass instruments and more unusual instruments such as the keyed trumpet and Wagner tuba.
The septet cooperates with freelance director Bernd Jeschek who developed the stage programs "Smoke", "Ragazzi" and "Seven" and the "first operetta of the 21st century" titled "Das Trojanische Boot" ("The Trojan Boat"), whose world premiere was in 2005 during the German art festival RuhrTriennale.
The group has toured internationally and won praise from artists such as Barry Tuckwell, Chuck Findley, Jeff Nelson and Wycliffe Gordon.

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Bohemian Rhapsody

"Bohemian Rhapsody"

"Green Hornet"

Members

• Thomas Gansch (trumpet)
• Robert Rother (trumpet)
• Roman Rindberger (trumpet) (since 2004)
• Leonhard Paul (trombone & bass trumpet)
• Gerhard Füßl (trombone)
• Zoltan Kiss (trombone) (since 2005)
• Wilfried Brandstötter (tuba)

 Former members

• Wolfgang Sohm (trumpet) until 2004
• Sebastian Fuchsberger (trombone) until 2004
• Ed Partyka (trombone) until 2005

Repertoire from Seven Show (available on DVD)

Mnozil has a wide range of repertoire - their two hour long concerts feature the group playing all manners of music along with comedic antics. While the majority of items feature the band playing their brass instruments they are also known to sing (Bohemian Rhapsody being a key example), and even play the recorder (while it is up their noses)

• Austrian Drinking & Folk Songs
• Jazz
• Pop
• Classical Rearrangements
• Schlager

Related links

• official website
• homepage stage director Bernd Jeschek

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