John Kelly and Maite Itoiz.
Maite Itoiz (main voice, compositions, arrangements, producer, guitars, dance, percussion, graphics, illustrations, designs, concept)
John Kelly (main voice, compositions, guitars, dance, percussion, photography, video, producer, concept, business man)
The rest of the band members are rotating, here their names:
Kayami Satomi (Cello)
Gereon Homann (drums)
Solange Freyre (back vocals and dancer)
Lily Dahab (back vocals and dancer)
Marcel Lichter (piano)
Guenther Gebauer (bass)
Colin Goldie (Irish wishtles and pipe)
Jochen Vogel (Celtic steel string harp)
Nicky Fischer (Sound engineer)
Stephan Deil (Light engineer)
Wolf Simon (drums)
Tim Fischer (Guitars)
Veronica Ferreiro (back vocals and dancer)
Jesko von den Steinen (Acrobat, dancer and actor)
Bene Apperdanier (piano)
Sebastian Bertram (keyboards)
Mirko Rum (guitars)
Influences
Pop, rock, hard rock, celtic music, middle age, Renaissance, Baroque, new age, symphony music (Mahler, Bruckner), electronic, lyric, Spanish (Paco de Lucia), big choirs (Verdi, Orff, Brahms)
Sounds Like
Our music and show is a blending of fantasy with reality, symphonic music that reminds of legendary film soundtracks mixed with pop, rock, electronic, Spanish, middle age, lyric and classic sounds. A trip through the deepest dreams and feelings of the human kind. It reminds to Enya, Loreena McKennitt, Lord of the Rings, Braveheart, Mike Oldfield, together with rock, pop, electronic and symphony sounds.
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OUR SPONSORS AND PARTNERS:
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http/www.wwf.de/amazonas-3
Internationale Symphoniker Deutschland
Jorge Terra, designer, sponsors Maite with his gorgeous and sexy :-)creations.
www.jorgeterra.es
We are two musicians with two very different backgrounds. John sold more than 20 million records with his former band "Kelly Family" and I am a Spanish opera singer, producer and arranger (and guitarist).
Together we developed this musical project; "Tales from the Secret Forest"
We are up to 12 musicians on stage (the number changes depending on the conditions of the concert), all of them very known as soloists or studio musicians. To the rock band (drums, bass, e-guitars, keyboards, piano..) we added the Celtic steel string harp, Irish whistles, pipes and cello. Two experienced dancers/singers make the harmonies of the voices together with us, and an actor/acrobat/dancer from the Cirque du Soleil is in charge of guiding the fantasy show, in his role of leprechaun. In the recording, a full real symphony orchestra plays with us. On stage we played only a couple of times with the orchestra, but we hope we can do it more often in the future. The project started in June 2006. We hit the amazon charts in Germany last July, getting number one! :-)
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To buy a CD, write an e-mail to this address:
maiteitoizweb@yahoo.es
We..ll give it over to our company sales department. You also can get it in the different download sites like i-tunes etc, in amazon.de and other online shops.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE NEW DVD.
JOHN AND MAITE ARE AMBASSADORS OF WWF. THEY COULD SEE THE AMAZONAS' DRAMA WITH THEIR OWN EYES.
The two sides of Maite
John just has one side, he is not a complicated guy :-)))
John Kelly and Maite Itoiz's Friend Space (Top 32)
hey maite, how are your plans to play in Berlin again coming along? Didn't you wanna try to come back this year and play at the zitadelle spandau? would be pretty awesome, if that worked out...
anyways, hope to see you guys again soon. have a good night,chica.
Hallo, ihr beiden Lieblingsmusiker!! Ich wünsche euch eine glückliche und erfolgreiche Woche in Spanien und ganz viel Sonnenschein!! Herzliche Grüße und alles, alles Liebe von Regina
Sending you lots of fairy greetings from the other side of the Atlantic :). I hope you'll visit the US one day, and give some fairy concerts over here ;). Believe me, this beautiful country has to offer so many different and breathtaking places. You'd love it! I also found this link to a medieval festival: http://www. kingrichardsfaire. net/ I am quite sure there are many more festivals like that ;). Keep a tour in the US in your mind, and you definitely have to check out the New England area ;).
