Shark (musician)

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Shark
Origin Los Angeles, California, USA
Genre(s) Americana
Country
Alternative rock
Years active 1992 — Present
Label(s) UMe/Universal w/Wild Colonials
Website www.sharkadelicmusic.com

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[edit] Shark (musician)

Shark is the Los Angeles based Singer-Songwriter, DJ, Film Composer and guitarist with the Wild Colonials.

[edit] Biography

Best known as the guitarist with the critically acclaimed U.S. cult favorites Wild Colonials. To date the Wild Colonials have released three albums, Fruit of Life and This Can't Be Life on DGC/Geffen Records and a collection of their music as featured in films Reel Life vol 1 released on the soundtrack label Chromatic Records. The band's latest fourth album Life As We Know It will be released as four EP's over the course of the year (2007/2008) on UMe/Universal.

The band has toured nationally as headliners as well as the opening act for Los Lobos, Chris Isaak, Midnight Oil, Cyndi Lauper and The Kinks. The band headlined the second stage as part of the ground breaking first Lilith Fair '97 tour. The Wild Colonials music has been featured in over 30 different films, including Mr. Wrong, Unhook The Stars and The Last Supper.

[edit] Shark 'N The Smoke

Shark has recently completed his first solo album entitled Greetings from Lost Angeles. Special guest on the album include singers, Julianna Raye, Shannon Moore, Cindy Wasserman (Dead Rock West) and cellist Vanessa Freebairn-Smith (Sonus Quartet).

Special Guests: Gospel Legends and Elvis Presley backing vocalists The Jordanaires on the track "Save Your Dreams".

[edit] Film Composer

Shark has to date scored seven films, including the recently released How To Go Out On A Date In Queens, I Shot A Man In Vegas, and Me And Will. Coming in 2008 the first in a series of releases of Shark's Film music.

[edit] Filmography

  • I Shot a Man in Vegas (1995)
  • Dead Man's Curve (The Curve) (1998)
  • Me and Will (1999)
  • The Spreading Ground (2000)
  • The Yard Sale (2002)
  • Frozen Stars (2003)
  • How to Go Out on a Date in Queens (2006)
  • The Key (2007)

[edit] Television

Shark has been asked to write the theme tune for the Rachel Zoe Project. A reality show based on the stylist to the stars Rachel Zoe. It will premiere on Bravo this summer.

[edit] D.J. Shark

DJ SHARK has DJ'ed many Film Premieres as well as events including ESPN's 2004 Super Bowl party in Houston, The Sopranos private Emmy party and the premiere party for Oprah Winfrey's Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Shark's remix of Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby for Verve Records appeared in the Michael Douglas film It Runs In The Family.

[edit] Discography

As Shark 'N The Smoke...

  1. High Hopes

With Wild Colonials...

Soundtrack Albums...

  1. Love Theme from Frozen Stars
  • How To Go Out On A Date In Queens - Original Soundtrack

[edit] Trivia

  • Shark was the off screen Radio Disc Jockey voice in the feature films, I Shot A Man In Vegas (1998) and How To Go Out On A Date In Queens (2006).
  • Shark was the singing voice for Harvey Keitel's Elvis in the feature film, Finding Graceland (1998).
  • The Shark/Scardanelli penned song "Save Your Dreams" has been covered by nine different artists including Canadian country singer Justine Stewart who performed the song at the 2006 Aids Benefit TV broadcast in China to an audience of five hundred million viewers.

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