Fredo + Brandon Epocha

"I was born in London, England and spent my first five years living in England and Rome. After that my family moved to New York, then Los Angeles, where I spent most of my adolescent years, singing professionally as a boy soprano and studying art once my voice changed. Finally I moved back to NYC to attend NYU Tisch School of the Arts. I studied to be a film director, and during this period discovered the music of Bartok, Shostakovich and Stravinsky, which had an immense effect on me. It has since developed into a passion for the operas of Benjamin Britten, Don Giovanni and most of the work of Alfred Schnittke. I also love the music of Belle and Sebastian, Boards of Canada, Amon Tobin's Permutations, Joni Mitchell, Harry Nilsson, Harry Nilsson (yes, again, I love him this much!) and Odetta. Gospel music rocks my socks off. Oh, and Bach. :) Out of school first I tried editing and animation design, which I think I did pretty well, as it afforded me the opportunity to save enough money to set myself up with a pretty awesome little home recording studio. I then got to work on making my own music. In 2004 I had one of my songs licensed for use in Jonathon Demme's Manchurian Candidate. Then I made my first music video, The Sad Song, which was a pretty huge hit on the net. I received emails from Roger Ebert, Massive Attack, Neil Gaiman, ABC News Now, and director Mike Binder, all offering opportunities. In 2005 I completed recording and licensed five songs for Mike Binder's upcoming film "Man About Town" starring Ben Affleck, Rebecca Romijn and John Cleese. In November 2005 I was flown to Bristol to begin a collaboration with Massive Attack, who are two of the most amazingly creative and kind folks I've ever met. Hope something fruitful comes of that. That's it so far. I have a few interesting things in development, and my first show went really well! Hopefully there will be much more of that! You can watch my video for 'The Sad Song' on my website: http://www.fredoviola.com ."