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Brian Pastoria combines a veteran musician's creative insights and sensibilities with an entrepreneur’s passion for overcoming adversity and achieving major goals no matter what the odds, qualities which serve him well in the day-to-day operation of downtown Detroit's most exciting and extraordinary venture, Harmonie Park.

A celebrated rock drummer, Pastoria became a founding member of the Detroit band Adrenalin in 1977 and went on to record two national albums and a number of singles with the group, including a Top 5 Most Added Rock record according to Billboard magazine, "Faraway Eyes." Mr. Pastoria was featured in Modern Drummer magazine in the September 1985 issue. After extensive touring with acts such as Aerosmith, Huey Lewis & The News, .38 Special and Grand Funk Railroad's Mark Farner and landing a song on the soundtrack to the major motion picture "Iron Eagle," Pastoria and the band reformed in 1988 as DC Drive, scoring a Top 20 record in Canada and playing live throughout North America.

While amassing his wide range of performing experiences, Pastoria's intuitive grasp of music commerce led him to the business side of the advertising world and music production. Pastoria's teacher's are some of the biggest names in the recording industry, such as legendary former Motown Records musical director Maurice King and fabled Atlantic Records executive Jerry Wexler and Grammy award winning producer Vini Poncia.

Brian and his brother Mark Pastoria found a smooth transition from recording and performing to producing, creating & recording major music for artists like Aretha Franklin, Mark Farner (Grand Funk), The Four Tops, Kirk Franklin, P Diddy, Will IAM (Black Eyed Peas) Karen Clark, Paul Hill, D-12, & others. At the same time creating advertising campaigns for clients like Birmingham Chrysler Jeep, Pizza Hut, Rinke Toyota, and the MotorCity Casino. They have also written hit commercials for Detroit Edison, KFC, Pizza Hut, The City of Detroit, McDonalds, Buick, Metro Airport, The Wellness Plan, The Detroit Red Wings and Tigers, a whole list of car dealers. Their combined experience in production, and their recording and production facility in Harmonie Park, has been producing hit commercials over the airwaves in Detroit since the early 90’s.

All of this experience gave the Pastoria Brothers the impetus to assemble one of the greatest collections of creative talent Detroit has seen in years. Under the umbrella of Harmonie Park, Major label and local artists are recording in their world class studio and a full service creative group creates hit commercials for companies while showing off Detroit's great talent. Ultimately, two distinct goals can be achieved: 1) Hit advertising campaigns with proven results and, 2) the hands-on signing, development, recording and promotion of a diverse stable of artists and reawakening of a great city's musical heritage.