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Marc Paley, born in 1966 in San Diego, CA, was originally drawn to the piano by his father, a musician himself, telling him that piano was the magic key to learn all instruments. So at age nine, Marc began studying the instrument in earnest with local teachers. Soon after Marc started to perform in school bands, choir programs, talent shows as well as various garage & party bands from grade school on through high school. Marc's first Band project performed "Saturday in the Park" by Chicago for a Talent show in the 8th grade.
After graduating high school in 1984, Marc attended the College of San Mateo studying Broadcast Engineering & Music Theory. At the same time, Marc began to pursue a professional music career with various T40, Surf, Reggae, R&B and Blues bands. At the same time, Marc was diving into all the new emerging Multi-Media world of computer music, MIDI Sequencing, Synthesis & Digital Audio Technology. To make some extra money, Marc also worked at many of the Music retailers in the SF Bay Area allowing him access to cutting edge music technology to learn with. Durring this time Marc's Jazz band performed at the 1987 Belmont Art & Wine Festival in the Park.
Soon Marc transferred to San Francisco State to study Audio Engineering, Recording & Music. Soon after Marc started working as a Producer, Sound Designer & MIDI Engineer at some local Bay Area studios like Hyde Street Studios, Pyramind Sound & Brilliant Studios. Marc also did post-production work for corporate clients. He composed and engineered AD/TV work for companies like AutoDesk, Electronic Arts, Off 5th Avenue, Shakley, Macy’s & others.
In 1989 Marc sat in with Jim Juhn & friends at the old Morty's on broadway in San Francisco. After a long set of crazy fusion madness we started playing more and more. Soon after Marc joined Jim’s own progressive rock band called Low Flying Aircraft as well as a tribute band called: The John Belushi Memorial Blues Band. Soon after that project faded, Marc joined up with new Contemporary Soul/R&B group called the San Francisco Originals where he played for years with some local players like Tommy Bradford & Jason Muscat
In addition, Marc produced a track on the band’s Debut CD which led into playing larger venues like Bimbo’s 360, The Great American Music Hall & Wineries in Napa. With recomendation from a good engineer friend Matt Kelly, Marc also taught a Digital Audio & Post Production Class at the Acadamy of Art College in San Francisco for two semesters.
In later part of 1992 while Marc started renting a rehearsal space on Polk Street with a producer named Kenny M. He soon befriended two prominent DJ’s in the SF Club scene: DJ Digit & DJ EFX. Soon after that meeting, Marc was asked to join and help establish a new production company called 3rd Floor Productions. The main goal was to cultivate new talent and to do Re-Mixes for various artists at some major & independent labels. The first one being “Faith” by Rozalla followed up by songs by Boy George, David Bowie, RuPaul, Depeche Mode & many other major and minor label acts.
Soon after Marc hooked up with Doug Doppler & Atma Anur in a band called Doppler Effect – The band played various clubs in the SF Bay Area and then band recorded an instrumental rock album called “Ground Zero” in 1993
Also, In the 90’s Marc began a parallel career in Information Technology & Management. He has used both his musical and network engineering skills to command jobs working for cutting edge multi-media & digital media companies like Zero One Software, Dynaware, Cinebase Software, Avid Technology, Digidesign & Salesforce.com
While working various corporate gigs to pay the bills Marc has maintained an ever-growing musical career, appearing and recording with many stellar SF Bay Area artists & musicians along the way. Marc’s keyboard playing, while always decidedly modern and non conventional, it can best be described as a style that embodies Jazz, R&B, Rock, Funk & Fusion. Likewise, his command of keyboards, production, arrangement, engineering & melody is applied with his composition & theory sensibilities which allow him to push the boundaries of all styles to new heights.
Marc is currently finishing his long awaited & self produced debut CD project called "Distant Horizons" due out the Fall of 2009. This CD features a host of excellent SF Bay Area muscians. (See list on Adjacent Page <---
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Marc's Discography
List of Musicians I have Recorded and/or Performed with live:
Guitar:
Vernon Black, Stef Burns, Lorn Leber, Mark McGee, Doug Doppler, Jim Juhn, Eric Orme, Ron Sada, Vince Martinez, Ronnie Ray Padilla, Pat Morris & Michael Maung.
Drums & Percussion:
Atma Anur, Tommy Bradford, Jimmy DeGrasso, Cliff Almond, Marc Patron, Wally Schnalle, Rene Escovedo, Pepe Jacobo, Scott McKenzie, Marty Schuchardt, Peter French, Gino Salerno, Seabrien Arata & Bryan Kilfoil.
Bass:
Nelson Braxton, Joe DeVito, Steven Winter, Michael Wilcox, Eric McAnn, Dave Moreno, Jason Muscat, Stephan Brun, Edgar San Gabriel, Gary Strater, Marshall Harrell, Dennis Dizmore & Amir Zitro.
Vocalists: Larry Batiste, Ms. Mone't Owens, Zorina London, Skyler Jet, Bilal Muslim, Martin Scott, Rudi Wilburn, John Payne, Piero Ornelas, Rick Gordon & LZ Love
Woodwinds: Vincent Lars, Ronnie Ray Padilla, Yil Ospay & George T. Gregory
Keyboards: Phil Bennet, Tony Stead, Larry Jazz & Jimmy Wagner
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