Antonio Pontarelli -- Follow Me

Antonio Pontarelli, award winning 15 year old singer / songwriter / musician called "The Rock Violinist". His innovative and forward thinking style has been getting audiences on their feet and spinning heads in the music industry. Antonio recently won for 'Best Song" in the prestigious SongwriterUniverse and received the most votes in The International Songwriting Competition of any teen finalist for the Peoples' Voice Award. He was featured "Live from the Grammy Red Carpet" on the Tonight Show, Entertainment Tonight and the TV Guide Channel. Antonio also has had coverage in Billboard, Music Connection, String Magazine and has graced the covers of several magazines.

Since he was very young Antonio has been called a music prodigy because of his unique ability to improvise and to create an exciting musical journey with notes. He is an electrifying performer and his fiery arrangement of Jimi Hendrix "Purple Haze" won NBC's ITV's " America 's Most Talented Kids" in November 2004. In February 2005, he delivered the performance of the season in their "Tournament of Champions" episode when he ignited the audience with his very first note. Antonio held them captive until his theatrical finale and was crowned the "Grand Champion." In April 2005, Antonio had the honor of being the "Young Artist Awards" winner for "Outstanding Young Rock Musician." The awards are helmed as the Oscars for talented young people in film, television and music.

Antonio has been capturing the hearts of listeners everywhere with his passionate drive to write music that is timeless and makes a difference in the world. Because of his dedication and hard work he has performed with rock legends such as Jethro Tull and numerous other Grammy winners. Antonio's goal is to draw musicality from classic roots and create modern rock that is fresh, current and empowering. Antonio is "about the music".

Antonio donates a percentage of profits from his music to charities and his foundation, The Music Prodigy Foundation Inc. to help bring music into people's lives.

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Music

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• electric
• violin
• virtuoso
• Antonio
• Pontarelli

[ttc817]

This kid rocks. I saw him open for Vince Neil, Quiet Riot and Slaughter at a show 3 years back - he's got a ton of talent!

[kjcsk8r]

haha his mom was my 6th grade english teacher

[rolandgladden]

Great talent:)

[PlatypusofCalifornia]

What hes doing is no joke, I went to get myself an e violin recently and tried playing a viper like he has just out of curiosity, it has a shoulder strap and is played really low, unlike most violins, and it has frets, and six strings are impossible to play. Plus I can't improvise rock scales at all, I tried to play it and the only thing i got was a horrible drone. The people selling the vipers looked at me with contained hilarity, needless to say I ended up getting a different kind of violin...

[nektyler]

by beast you mean loser right?

[silence83]

holy fucking shit

what a fucking beast <3

[whitey19888]

I agree.

[TheTinkle]

It looks slightly weird to me when violinists have this shoulder-holding-thing though.

[benjikan]

Incredible Talent

[musicalspaz]

yEaH! dude he's so nice!