- Denny DeMarchi
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Denny DeMarchi 
Background information Genres Rock
Alternative Rock
Indie Rock
Modern RockOccupations Musician
Vocalist
SongwriterInstruments Vocals
Keyboards
Acoustic Guitar
Electric Guitar
Flute
Wind Instruments.Years active 1990-present Labels Indie Associated acts ALIAS, Dolores O'Riordan, The Cranberries, Rockizoid Website www.myspace.com/dennydemarchi Denny DeMarchi is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and songwriter. Aside from being a prolific singer/songwriter and experienced live rock concert performing musician, he is also proficient in production, engineering and recording roles in a recording studio environment. DeMarchi is best known as the touring musician for Irish rock band The Cranberries as their keyboardist / guitarist and backing vocalist in their 2009-2010 reunion world tour.
DeMarchi was the opening act for The Cranberries On July 5, 2010 in Rome at the Roma Rock Festival, one of the premier events on the European summer music festival scene.[1] DeMarchi opened the show with 8 songs from his own Rockizoid solo project.[2]
On August 28, 2009. DeMarchi accompanied Dolores O’Riordan in a Live performance on CBC Radio in Toronto Ontario Canada.[3] Dolores O’Riordan joined guest host Jesse Wente live in Studio Q to talk about her second solo album release, No Baggage, and the reunion of The Cranberries with plans for a world tour in mid November 2009. Dolores O’Riordan introduced DeMarchi on the radio show as her keyboarder. They performed the songs “Linger (song)”, “It’s You” and “Zombie (song)” between interviews with other guests on the show. One of the guests was Walter Koenig, who played Pavel Chekov from Star Trek.
DeMarchi was the keyboardist for Dolores O'Riordan's solo albums Are You Listening? and No Baggage. In 2007 he also toured with Dolores O'Riordan on her solo world tour. In May 2007, DeMarchi along with other band members, were featured with O’Riordan in live performances on the Carson Daly Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,[4][5] True Music on HDnet cable network TV,[6] and on Heaven and Earth BBC Manchester.[7]
Dolores O'Riordan won an European Border Breakers Award in 2008. DeMarchi supported O'Riordan on keyboard and as backing vocalist at the award ceremony at Midem 2008, Cannes, France - 27 Jan 2008.[8]
DeMarchi is the keyboardist and backing vocalist on the ALIAS album, Never Say Never that was released in March 2009.
In the mid 80s, DeMarchi helped his brother Steve and their good friend Freddy Curci build the sound recording studio, Platinum Sound, out of the DeMarchi family basement where most of the songs on the ALIAS album were written and recorded. He was also involved with some of the production and engineering work for that album.
DeMarchi was the backing vocalist and keyboardist for the 1990 US #2 Billboard hit song More Than Words Can Say from the ALIAS album. He also co-wrote the last song in the ALIAS album, "Standing In The Darkness".
DeMarchi played keyboard, bass and did some of the production and engineering work for the 1994 Freddy Curci Dreamer's Road album. He co-wrote and produced the song "Diamonds" in this album.
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Band
In December 2007 DeMarchi formed the band Rockizoid as a side project. In Nov 2008, Rockizoid released two new songs in MP3 download format online: "Christmas Day" and "Weaken Me". Samplings of these two songs can be found on the band's myspace profile playlist.[9]
Rockizoid's music is explorative rock with a strong sense of groove and identifiable lyrics. "A song should be able to stand on its own by singing and playing it on one instrument. If it feels good doing that, then it's worth recording".[10]
In July 2009, DeMarchi’s song “All Your Fault”, released in May 2009, entered the Fame Games Radio and within three weeks quickly advanced to the 233 Wednesday edition of the Quarter Final Show, with ranking of number 2 and 233 edition of the Semi Final show, with ranking of number 3 [11] which were aired on radio nationwide in the United States on the Citadel Media (formerly the ABC radio) networks in mid August 2009.
Discography
Alias
- Alias (1990)
- Never Say Never (2009)
With Freddy Curci
- Dreamer's Road, (1994)
With Dolores O'Riordan
- Are You Listening? (2007)
- No Baggage (2009)
Personal life
DeMarchi was born in Canada, his parents immigrated to Canada from Italy. Residing just outside of Toronto, DeMarchi enjoys atv's, snowmobiles and riding his unicycle.
References
- ^ "Great Roma Rock Festival Tickets to Roma Rock Festival: your Favourite Festival Online!". Worldticketshop.com. http://www.worldticketshop.com/festivals/roma_rock_festival_tickets. Retrieved 2011-04-14.
- ^ [1], Denny DeMarchi facebook fanpage
- ^ [2] Download link to the podcast of this radio show
- ^ Dolores O'Riordan interviewed "UGO.com", cranberries.com
- ^ Dolores O'Riordan interview by Daniel Robert Epstein, ugo.com
- ^ True Music HDnet performance, youtube.com
- ^ BBC live performance, youtube.com
- ^ [3], EBBA Award Performance Video
- ^ CA (2008-09-21). "Rockizoid Band Website". Myspace.com. http://www.myspace.com/rockizoid. Retrieved 2011-04-14.
- ^ Denny DeMarchi, Rockzoid, Airplay Direct
- ^ "The Fame Games Radio Show". Meermusic.com. http://meermusic.com. Retrieved 2011-04-14.
- LiveDairy interview Dolores O'Riordan
- Rockzoid. Airplay Direct website listing for Denny DeMarchi
- Dreamer's Road Album Discography, Heavy Harmonies
- Feldman, Christopher (2000). The Billboard Book of Number Two Hits. ISBN 0-8230-7695-4.
- "Billboard". Billboard Hot 100 airplay and sales charts. Retrieved 2006-06-11.
- 1990 Capitol Records Alias album cover insert UPC 0 20831 4097 2 89
- 1994 EMI Music Canada Dreamer's Road album cover insert UPC 7243 8 29339 22
- www.melodicrock.com Upcoming 2nd Alias Album release
External links
Categories:- Living people
- Canadian multi-instrumentalists
- Canadian singer-songwriters
- Canadian male singers
- Canadian people of Italian descent
- Canadian rock singers
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