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Label: Blue Pie Productions
Artists Genre: Pop
Thriving with motivation at the young age of 10, he
knew that he had what it took to be "Somebody". "But
everybody is somebody, but, making a scratch on the
earth is what you are looking for", SHOCKWAVES mother
would say. How SHOCKWAVE started is a unique story on
it's own. The name its self came as a nickname when he
was a very young child ( 2 years old ) when he was
playing with a hair holding pin in an electrical
socket. Luckily for young SHOCK, the voltage in
America is only 110 volts in the electricity flow, but
still it was very unpleasant. His whole right hand had
peeled back. It gave his mother and father a BIG scare
and for him a fear of electrics and lightning forever:
but maybe that was what jump started his creative mind
and crazy antics....life had not been boring for him
and his family ever since. The name SHOCKWAVE was
born: he himself was born in the capital city of
Phoenix in the state of Arizona. SHOCKWAVE quotes, "My
mother raised me really, my father only came to visit
on the weekends. They were not married, they were
"Dating" so to speak, but did not live together. They
did not get married until I was 13. They were together
for 20 years and got married the last 3 years.....the
biggest mistake they ever made. This resulted in a
very turbulent household growing up in my teenage
years....the entertainment industry was my escape.
Unlike some of the other singers you hear about like
Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears or Justin
Timberlake, my mother and father had very little or
nothing to do with my success. They gave no mental or
physical support. I asked my mother why she despised
my wanting to pursue the entertainment industry, and
to this date, I truly have not received a
whole-hearted answer. You would think your parents
would be proud of their child they brought into the
world wanting to strive to be a figure that the world
knew by site or voice: being successful and not
failing. It was not until recently that my mother
started looking out for me on television and in the
charts and saw me perform live. My father never came
to see me when he knew, he died from a massive heart
attack before he saw me in a full professional state
".
SHOCKWAVE had to sneak to be in what he was known for
in the beginning. "My parents did not know I was in
certain projects until I grew up actually. My sister
suspitioned, but really did not know and she never
told". SHOCKWAVE explains. His first unofficial
representatives/agents, Angie Dimaggio and Sue Wright
were both school teachers teaching photography in two
separate schools. One a high school, the other a
vocational school which was an advanced college prep
facility. Sue Wright had big ties with modeling agency
L'image/Elite, which at the time was one of the
largest and most reputable agency in the world. Angie
was a kick ass photographer, killer in the dark room (
photo developing by hand ), and a hard critic from New
York. But before photography and modelling came into
play, even before Sue Wright came into the picture,
Dimaggio and music instructor Jean Perry had been
there for young SHOCKWAVE when his mother & father
were not. He later gained professional dance lessons
from a personal dance instructor/choreographer named
Kim Dorsen who was aquatinted with Paula Abdul at the
time, this would prove to be very beneficial for the
future, but SHOCK did not know it yet. He and others
realized that he was very multi-talented putting his
hand onto anything and everything that had to do with
showman ship or entertaining.
"I remember even before I had this chance to work and
train with professionals, I would call over all the
kids in the neighbourhood, even some parents would
come as well and pay 25 cents to see me dance and
sing. Then, my idol and artist I liked and looked up
to was Prince. I would dress up like him, you know,
flashy, wear the gloves, put on talc powder as make-up
on my face, wear my sisters clogs because Prince did (
because he is very short ) and all that stuff...my
mother hated it because he was nasty, but I did not
give a damn what she thought. She did not have to
worry about giving me any extra money to get gum and
candy like the rest of the kids because I was making
it performing in the garage at the house: she should
have been glad just for that! I won look alike and
dance contests for both Prince and Michael Jackson. I
know at the time, Jackson was the hottest thing on the
planet, but Prince still in my eyes was the artist
that captured my attention. There was allot I related
to with him. He was the first person I saw in concert
and I eventually was able to work with him later in
life". SHOCKWAVE explains.
With 2 other best friends, SHOCKWAVE, Kyle Simms and
Cedric Green appeared as a trio and sang their way to
school and hometown popularity very rapidly with Angie
Dimaggio openly calling the shots as their hopeful,
future manager along with whom SHOCKWAVE considered a
confidant at the time, Stephen Carson, also a school
teacher: a coach in athletics. At this time SHOCKWAVES
parents were watching and not liking what they saw.
"My parents felt that the music was making me fail, I
was a good kid that did not drink, smoke or do drugs.
Did not run with gangs ( which at the time was very
bad ) and did not run with the wrong crowd. I knew
what direction I wanted to go in and that should not
have been disturbed. I would have been even farther
now if they had not of gotten in my way. I did not
want to just stop my education, I wanted to do both, I
wanted to learn only what was necessary, not do all
these extra electives to socialize. I was perfecting
my image and what I wanted to be. The education system
at the time was not made interesting, therefore I was
bored of it". SHOCKWAVE explains.
With that, a few contacts that he had made along the
way gave him the opportunity to do some high profile
guest appearances that were sworn to secrecy. "At the
time, my parents did not even have a clue, they were
so busy being wrapped up into themselves trying so
hard to prove who was right and who was wrong to each
other, I slipped right through their hands out of
their controlling grasp. They though I was at summer
camp with the other kids and all that mess. I was in
Los Angeles on music video shoots and got my chance to
be with Michael Jackson on the set of Disney's 3D
spectacle Captain EO which was directed by George
Lucas and Frances Ford Copula. I did not even tell
Kyle and Cerdic because I knew it would get out and
eventually to my parents through other kids telling
their parents about me excited from coming home from
school and eventually the parents innocently telling
my parents through conversations about each others
kids". Back home, one of the members of the trio, Kyle
Simms moved away leaving SHOCKWAVE and Cedric Green a
duo which only made school appearances a couple of
times before Cedric moved away leaving SHOCKWAVE a
solo artist. Shortly after that, SHOCKWAVES mother and
father divorced, which he thought was the best thing
that ever could have happened because he could have
the freedom back that he once knew before they got
married 3 years earlier.
SHOCKWAVE recalls....
"My mother would work nights and sleep during the day.
working nights paid more money and with her being a
single mother again, she needed it. I basically from
that time as an older teenager became a young adult
very quickly. My mother always knew I was responsible
enough to be by myself, travel by myself and all of
that. Even though she suspected and knew what was
going on, it was too late to stop anything". So now it
was SHOCKWAVE and Angie and they had to conjure up a
plan on what he would do as a solo artist.
There was someone who did know everything that was
going on to a certain extent and stayed true to
SHOCKWAVE throughout it all named Felica Adams.
Her uncle who went by the nick name of "Cookie" had
ties with the force behind the success of the rap
group Salt-N-Peppa and R&B group Ready For The World
who had big success in the 80s. Felicia asked if her
uncle could give an inside ear to them on the new solo
career move for there was a success story waiting to
happen. Cookie being an up coming musician himself
collaborated with SHOCKWAVE to write his first 2
original tracks entitled "Ladies in the world", a rap
number and "I don't want it" an R&B/Dance number. The
rap number led to a brief meeting with producer "Nasty
Ness" of Nasty Mix Records who boasted a number one
artist at the time called "Sir Mix Alot". The contacts
were rolling in but they wanted SHOCKWAVE to change
his genre of choice of music. Hard rap was
transforming - a new style of rap was coming in with a
new era and the contacts that were being made were
more on the Dance/R&B side. So, for the first time,
SHOCKWAVE teamed up with a young lady named Cynthia
Viegas to sing as a duet. " I remember Felicia was
very jealous of Cynthia at the time, they fell in and
out of friendship over that. Felicia had her chance to
sing with me several times, but was too shy and would
never make it on stage solely because of that - she
could sing very well. Cynthia had a very beautiful
voice.
We trained under the same voice/musical director Jean
Perry, also a school teacher, who saw the match
straight away". SHOCKWAVE recalls.
Rehearsals commenced and then an opportunity for a
small showcase was announced. A phone call came to
SHOCKWAVE to say that a representative from M.C.A.
Records would be present, so he had better give it all
he had for he was scouting for new talent. , Jean
Perry, and the rep from M.C.A. approved of the
performance very much that night.
"I never knew that reps full name, only "Ced" which
was what everyone called him. I think Jean Perry knew
something was up that night but she did not say
anything to my mother or Cynthia's parents. When Ced
and another guy, who I never knew, walked in the door
together, they looked at me, nodded and sat in the far
top corner of the small performance room. Jean Perry
watched them the whole time with suspicion because she
knew everyone that had walked in the room. But she saw
the acknowledgment that they gave me and wondered what
was up. My mother, Cynthia - at that time, and her
parents were all un aware of what was really happening
for me that night....MY BIG BREAK !!!! After the
performance, The M.C.A. Reps slickly slipped out the
door the same way that slipped in. " SHOCKWAVE
recalls.
The next day, it was confirmed, SHOCKWAVE got the
phone call that he was waiting for, on a Saturday no
less, he never forgot it. A good opportunity opened up
for him and he was offered a spot to sing back up for
a new up and coming artist named Johnny Kemp at a live
New Years Eve party inside Disneyland at Tomorrowland
Terrance. It was Kemps first and only moderate hit,
unfortunately, that was being featured at the time
entitled "Just Got Paid". "We went on before "The
Jets" performed, who were having huge success at the
time. They moved them to another stage at Videopolis
in the park because it was covered and it just had
rained before the midnight hour. Even though I had
done some smaller professional stuff before this, I
felt like this was my first official "Big Time"
appearance as a potential successful "Recording
Artist". My mother did not have a clue. School was out
for Christmas Holiday break for 2 weeks, I just simply
asked if I could go to Disneyland for New Years Eve to
have fun, she said yes. I think also she wanted a bit
of time to herself as well with her and my father just
divorcing a few months earlier and wanted to sort her
mind out. Ced from M.C.A. and a few others met me at
the airport, we did rehearsals, rode in Limos, booked
in the suites at the Disneyland Hotel, were treated
like kings and queens. For a very young teenager, it
was a dream life come true. I did not let it spoil me,
because I know life was hard before that and I was not
out of the woods yet as far as a stable career".
SHOCKWAVES mother eventually did find out what was
happening shortly after that and to a surprise took it
very well. "I think it was just the fact that her and
my father splitting up really took an effect on her
looking back on it now. She just could not be
bothered. She was concerned for me and did not want me
to get hurt, raped, drugged or be led into drugs or be
taken advantage of by the industry. She knew I could
take care of myself, but there still was the notion of
disapproval. She never came to see me in any of those
shows even after she knew that I had a chance to do
something big. So, I left her to her life and she left
me to mine to a certain extent." SHOCKWAVE recalls.
He has opened for acts such as New Shoez, Young M.C.,
Stacy Q, and Mary Wells, ( former supreme with Diana
Ross ).
Then came a short break from the singing world and the
"Roll Over Effect" kicked in. SHOCKWAVE was appearing
in anything and everything that he could. He had
linked up with Ellite and Cassablancas Modelling
agency as well as a few agents and casting directors
in Los Angeles.
After appearing in magazine spots for International
Male, Coda and Robinson's and Runway Fashion Shows, he
appeared in television and motion picture. A few of
his many spots include "Independence Day", "The Fan",
and "The Matrix". Televisions "Silk Stalkings",
"Kindred" "The Embraced", 3 seasons on "Nash Bridges"
and the daytime soap "Sunset Beach". In one year he
appeared in 4 national television commercials and
appeared in the music video "Backstreets Back" along
with dance work with Christina Aguilera Destiny's
Child.
Now, SHOCKWAVE has come back to his solo artist roots
to take the stage once again with more powerful vocals
and a high impact show with his dancers.
His very first release as a dance artist, Here Comes
The Rain Again appeared in 14 countries and has not
slowed down yet. The second release, "I Like It" is to
come with an album due in 2006.
Shockwave is a Blue Pie and EV3 artist. You can get
Shockwave at all leading digital retailers on the
planet. For more information please visit the official
Shockwave site at www.shockwavemusic.net and Blue Pie
www.bluepie.com.au.
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