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I promise you won't read this on my artist bio.

27 ago 2011 0 comments

1. I have been playing for 15 years or since i was a very talented kid / I come from a very talented family of musicians & an artists.

Well, most of us did, and if not, what does it matter if we are doing good music anyway? :)

2. I have been in several bands.

Most of them dissolved and probably forgotten, unless you once belong to a certain medium famous band, I find uninteresting for the reader to tell about cancelled projects from the past. It matter to mention if you have a couple of recorded songs that worth to share.

3. Our band line up has constantly changed, first, there was this guy, but then this other guy came and replaced him, then the drummer was replaced by the guy on guitar...

Don't wanna sound rude but I really don't care about unknown former members who probably are not even making music anymore.

4. My style is hard to fit on any genre. I have a very personal sound.

I am the first person to mention I don't want to belong to any specific sound, but about each of my song individually, I perfectly know they could fit into some genres, it is not important to me, but I find a little arrogant to claim that no one could sound like me. In the end, most of time I find very easy to recognize what genre are these people actually into. About the "experimental" label... mmm... I better write another post about it.

I made changes to my bio several times, at first of course I intended to become very personal and mention every little detail. But soon realized not much people care, with the time I felt better with my writing, trying to read it as a listener who find my site for the very first time and remembering what I felt by reading other people's bios, what interested me, what I found boring, senseless to mention, or even disappointed there was no bio, or it really didn't tell me something from the artist.

I found this totally amateur but honest and short bio today:

"I sit in my little brothers bedroom and record using the built in mic on his apple mac and edit my music on GarageBand. That is all. If you want to know more about me, please e-mail me :)"

It really didn't tell me much, but a short, personal, not too self autopromoted is a good start, of course if this person wants to look more professional, will have to change it later.

And oh, please... do not paste a lot of links of where to buy, shorten the link, it helps to read easily, I automatically discard a bio with a bunch of links on it, if I like your music, I will visit your official site and look for a place to buy it.

 
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