Chad Perrone
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Website: chadperronemusic.com | |
| MySpace: myspace.com/chadperrone | ||
| SonicBids: sonicbids.com/chadperrone | ||
| Genre: Rock/Pop | ||
| Hometown: Boston, MA | ||
| Availability: Generally available | ||
| Showcasing at NACA Northeast | ||
| Music: Media Player | ||
| Free Downloads: "Awake in the Morning" | "Wanting More" | ||
| Tools: Print Posters | Stage Plot | Hi-Res Photo | ||
| Bio: |
| Boston shivered during its annual December freeze, but the patrons within the at-capacity Paradise Lounge held cold glasses and bottles to their flushed faces. Chad Perrone looked over the shoulder-to-shoulder crowd with a smile and leaned into the microphone.
"This has been a hell of a year," the hometown singer-songwriter sang, eliciting cheers of approval from the audience. "I couldn't be happier." 2006 was a turning point for Perrone -- a transition from a long-familiar New England player to a boldfaced name in critical and audience circles. His debut solo effort, "Used To Dream," was awarded with three 2006 Boston Music Award nominations, including "Outstanding Male Singer/Songwriter" and a "Best Unsigned Band/Artist of 2006" nomination from AlternativeAddiction.com; crowds throughout the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Mid-West saw an artist heralded for an unabashedly candid, poignant approach to setting his life to music. That style -- a melodic recreation of moments and emotions -- is what fuels Perrone as an artist and performer, he says. "Writing a song is all the best parts of music," Perrone says. "You catch onto something and it's new, it's fresh, it's exciting. And when you're able to piece a song together, play it from start to finish for the first time, it's amazing. I want to run out and grab someone, get them to listen." A collection of 13 songs came together in a recording studio to form "Used To Dream," released in May. A collaboration with musician Steve Belleville, musician/producer Dennis Carroll (6Media AV) and the 10 local guest artists, "Used to Dream" was cultivated in what Perrone calls an organic recording process. Armed with a devoted fanbase and continued critical acclaim, Perrone is continuing the performance-by-performance approach to musicianship; first-time fans are taking in the sound next to those who have been there since Perrone's first concert in March 1998. Chad describes the response as "an amazing, wonderful thing" for someone who, as a young boy, was often found belting out songs to imaginary crowds in his living room. "That's the thing that amazes me," he says. "Back then, that was such a dream of mine. And there are time it's just such a surreal experience, I almost think I'm going to realize I'm still dreaming. |