Johnny Gioeli

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Johnny Gioeli
Johnny Gioeli
Johnny Gioeli
Background information
Origin USA
Genre(s) Rock
Instrument(s) vocals

Johnny Gioeli, born on the 5th of October 1967 in Brooklyn, New York, is currently the vocalist of German guitarist Axel Rudi Pell and bands Hardline, Accomplice and Crush 40. Now he is currently working on the new, Hardline album, Just Add Water (Due for release some time in 2007).

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[edit] Biography

He started drumming with the band Killerhit in 1983 at the age of 17. Sharing vocal duties with his brother Joey The four piece act hit the East Coast club circuit with an enormous amount of success, earning enough by 1987 to have purchased their own lighting rig, truck and a tour bus purchased from Jimmy Buffet.

Re-locating to Hollywood, KILLERHIT hooked up with POISON's BRET MICHAELS. The singer gave them his then publicist Debra Rosner's number who instantly became the band's manager. Realizing the need for a front man, Johnny vacated the drum stool for centre stage, Las Vegas native Darek Cava taking his place behind the drum kit. Soon after the band switched names to the more appropriate BRUNETTE. The band broke The Doors and Van Halen's single-weekend attendance records on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood CA. Their sensation soon brought attention and admiration to the recording industry. They were courted by top record executives for months. The band had built a loyal world wide fan base. Indifferences took take shape in the Brunette camp before a recording deal could be secured. The guys decided to call it quits in 1991. He then he started working with his brother Joey on songs for an album they were going to call 'brothers'. However Neil Schon, Journey's guitarist saw them and asked if he could play with them, and they agreed. Then in 1992 they released their first effort, entitled Double Eclipse,and called themselves Hardline which was moderatly successful but not enough to get into the mainstream music. After this they began writing songs for a second album but once again called it quits while recording the songs due to other troubles. Back in 1998, vocalist Jeff Scott Soto left the Axel Rudi Pell band, and Axel called Johnny Gioeli for his Oceans of Time CD, which up to date has been considered as one of the best Axel Rudi Pell albums so far. Together with his brother, he is under accussation for internet scams involving company NovaPointe (see http://www.novapointescams.com/), and many others.

[edit] Hardline's Returning album

After considerable success of their debut CD, Double Eclipse, the band was dissolved for 10 years during which Johnny and his brother followed a career in internet business. After he met with further success in the band Axel Rudi Pell, Johnny and his band Hardline returned to release their second album entitled II and was released in 2002 followed by the live CD/DVD in 2003, named Live At The Gods 2002. The band are currently finishing their third album, Just Add Water, which will be released in June 2007.

[edit] Work with Jun Senoue

He has been working with video game composer and musician Jun Senoue and has delivered his vocals in the Sons Of Angels CD, Thrill Of The Feel, released in 2000 and he is currently in the band Crush 40, where he sang several songs in recent Sonic the Hedgehog games, such as the theme tune Sonic Heroes, a bright, melodic song and in contrast What I'm Made Of, a distinctly dark, energetic hard rock song with metal sensibilities for the final struggle of the game. He was also the vocalist for the songs Open Your Heart, the main theme of Sonic Adventure, Live & Learn, the main theme of Sonic Adventure 2, I Am... All Of Me, the main theme of Shadow the Hedgehog, and Never Turn Back, the ending theme from the same game. His latest work with Senoue is a cover of Magna-FI's "All Hail Shadow", and writing the chorus lyrics for the Sonic the Hedgehog Next-Gen game main theme "His World". As well as writing the chorus for the main theme (Performed by Matt Lewis and Ali Tabbatabae), he also recorded a version of the song with Crush 40 (featured as a bonus track on the games official soundtrack).

[edit] Discography

[edit] Accomplice

  • She's On Fire (2006)

[edit] Axel Rudi Pell

  • Oceans Of Time (1998)
  • The Ballads II (1999)
  • The Masquerade Ball (2000)
  • The Wizards's Chosen Few (Compilation) (2000)
  • Shadow Zone (2002)
  • Knights Live (Live CD) (2002)
  • Kings And Queens (2004)
  • The Ballads III (2004)
  • Mystica (2006)

[edit] Hardline

  • Double Eclipse (1992)
  • II (2002)
  • Live At The Gods (Live CD/DVD) (2003)
  • Just Add Water (2007)

[edit] Crush 40 a.k.a. Sons of Angels

[edit] External links

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