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I come from a show business family.My parents did a comedy acrobat act and I traveled all over the world with them since I was born.You could say I lived in a suitcase.When I reached the age of eight years old my father wanted me to learn to play accordion,but his real intentions, was so he could incorporate me in his act as a musical director.My parents happening to have a 6 months contract in Italy,where I was taking lessons from the musical director of the orchestra,which he conducted at least thirty musicians.Looking back on my first teacher, he was really from a contemporary classical background.Now I was on my way to see the the world of music and have an opportunity to work with musicians and big stars of that time and receive a gift of knowledge,organisation,management,responsibility and see almost every culture of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I must have been to at least thirty different schools all over the world.I never did have a chance to be with any school friends for long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I worked every night and had to get up in the morning to go to school.Sometimes only having a few hours sleep,anyway I had a blast playing and living in such countries as Hong Kong was my first time performing on stage at ten years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then we would go to Singapore,Philippines,Taiwan,Thailand,Vietnam, Australia,Tahiti,Fiji,Japan,Okinawa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My first solo in the act came about in New Zealand, I was 12 years old and I played ,The flight of the Bumble Bee  by Rimsky Korsakov…  We worked all over in a chain of theaters which was incredible,because there were all there to watch the show and get entertained opposed to eating food at high class night clubs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I reached the age of 18 my father told me to start singing.So, I was in the Philippines at the time working at a high class super club called the ..Blue Nile..and a Philippine sax player wrote my first arrangement for the orchestra.My first song I sang was called ..Let it be me…The next song I learned was ..Mister Lonely by Bobby Vinton..Little did I know that I would be his pianist 6 years later in life.After,working 10 years with my parents.They retired and I moved on starting with joining all kinds of groups and styles. I went to Las Vegas with a show group called ..South Bay Transit.. and I worked at Caesars Palace as performer,singer,keyboards. I was asked if I would be interested in a new show, in Lake Tahoe,Harrah’s Casino.I got the job as the Musical Director and M.C. and I wrote for a 22 piece orchestra for acts,singers,dancers.It was a lot of fun.Stayed there for 4 years.Then I left for Los Angeles and played with all kinds of groups, and at last I started a solo career and got a job offer to come to Europe.I have been in Europe ever since 1988.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I come from a show business family.My parents did a comedy acrobat act and I traveled all over the world with them since I was born.You could say I lived in a suitcase.When I reached the age of eight years old my father wanted me to learn to play accordion,but his real intentions, was so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post"],"_hostinger_reach_plugin_has_subscription_block":false,"_hostinger_reach_plugin_is_elementor":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomrivieremusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomrivieremusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomrivieremusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomrivieremusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomrivieremusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomrivieremusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/tomrivieremusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomrivieremusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}