

BIOGRAPHY
MARC AMENDOLA's MUSICAL JOURNEY
Marc picked up his first guitar at the age of 9. He knew he wanted to keep playing after his first big audition with the Red Hot Chili Peppers at age 19. Shortly after he found success with a song he wrote called "Sailing On" in the band Spoonfist, while earning two music degrees from the University of New Haven in West Haven, CT. Since then, he's been in numerous bands with most of his touring time spent with Gargantua Soul, Fear The State & Coretez. Currently Marc plays guitar in The Vintage T's,1 Wild Night, & One Stop Pony Band among other acts. He has performed at Woodstock '99, had music on ESPN's X-Games, won the John Lennon Songwriting Contest and received honorable mention in Billboard. The Hard Rock Cafe called his original band, Gargantua Soul, "the best unsigned band in the world," and a Fear The State sticker can be found right in the middle of the NYC Hard Rock Cafe's CBGB display. Marc is honored to be associated with such a great force in live underground music and has performed in Times Squares Hard Rock Cafe, as well as in DC, Foxwoods Hard Rock Cafe & Sioux City Iowa's Hard Rock Cafe! By day, he teaches guitar, books 1 Wild Night (www.1wildnightband.com) and records with many artists at his studio AudioHotel Music Recording in Orange, CT (203) 589-5033. He also teaches at University of New Haven! Marc was also fortunate to play in Clint Lowery's Hello Demons Meet Skeletons first tour, been in a movie with Gene Simmons, (a VH1 production called At Any Cost), meet Edward Van Halen backstage at the DCU center in Worcestor, Massachusestts at Van Halen's 2007 Tour and has also written music for ESPN, Guess Watches, Macromedia/Adobe video games & many Major Tv show series. Visit Marc online @marcamendola on Instagram and on FaceBook.
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