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VESUVEO IS NOW ON PANDORA!
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VESUVEO CELEBRATES 25 YEARS ON THE MIC!
“I started writing rhymes back in high school around 1987,” says Vesuveo. Smitten by mid-late 80s rap groups like Run-DMC, Eric B & Rakim, LL Cool J, MC Lyte, Jungle Brothers, Queen Latifah, EPMD, X-Clan, Too Short, and NWA, he put pen to pad, picked up the mic, and started cutting 4-track demoes with some friends. “That’s when I knew,” he remembers, “The moment I heard my voice over the speakers on playback, I was hooked.” Above are two pics from 1988, one from his very first live show at the annual Hastings High School talent show in New York (that’s Vesuveo center stage with the VW medallion) and a cutout from his senior yearbook, where he was voted “Most likely to be LL Cool J. Little would he know where the journey would take him over the past quarter century.
SHINE
OUT NOW
The Collective Music Group announced the line-up for Volume 2 of their Valley Rising Compilation, a project highlighting upcoming talent from the vibrant local music scene. 10 bands out of 70 submissoins made the final cut, and Vesuveo was one of them.
Backed by DJ Vinyl Child, Vesuveo performed 3 songs at the sold out Iron Horse release party, including “Spark Nasty”, “Life on Earth” with Stuntman Steve Sanderson, and “The Sad Sombrero Song”. Watch live video.
The album can be streamed online while free download cards are available now at Turn It Up, Downtown Sounds, Jackson & Connor, Ode, Northampton Box Office, Luthiers Co-op, Falcetti Music, Mocha Maya’s, Replay Records, and 2nd Street Baking Co. Proceeds benefit the Northampton Community Music Center.
NEW MUSIC VIDEO “I JUST WANNA HOLD U”
Vesuveo drops the 3rd single off his debut solo album Shine with a brand new video for “I Just Wanna Hold U” starring Huong Phan, and features the two of them salsa dancing mixed with archival footage from the 1940s and 50s. He shot it this past summer at an abandoned building in Hadley, MA and in the cornfields of Northampton, MA. It’s the 2nd video that Vesuveo directed, filmed and edited, the first being “Spark Nasty” released last year. Track produced by Janko Radosavljevic.
