JUNCTION RECORDS CAN CONFIRM THE SIGNING OF
... EDWARD BARÁT
Junction Records can today confirm the signing of the relatively unknown glam-rocker from Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles California named Edward Barát.
Brought up on classic rock bands of the 70’s and 80’s Edward has developed his vocal ability over the past 3 years performing in various bars in the Los Angeles area, more notably gaining quite a following around the Santa Monica area. He’s had various attempts at forming a band but has ultimately decided to go it alone as a solo artist, his song writing skills bring to mind classic rock numbers like Light My Fire and Hotel California and his vocal ability can rival the best of them, his vocal ability is somewhere between Robert Plant and Freddie Mercury.
He has a very interesting future ahead of him and it’s set to be a busy couple of months for the rocker what with his demo single, Showman!!! and with 2 promotional shows in Los Angeles and two more in New York already planned as well as recording for his debut album set to take place as early as February.
Next on the agenda … World Domination!!
BIOGRAPHY
Edward Barát was born on October 31, 1989 in Lafayette, Indiana. His family relocated to a small apartment on Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California and are of Dutch, French and Irish origin. His mother therapist and his father was a construction worker. Edward was always interested in performing from an early age, often taking part in school plays and performing at various local talent competitions from the age of 6. He has 2 sisters and 1 brother all of which have had an interest in performing but it was Edward whose star rose the highest in the Barát household. He never learned to play instruments and instead developed his showmanship qualities.
His father abandoned the family when Edward was 8 years old. Once he started to get older he started to lose his way a little bit, from the age of 12 he started to skip school with friends and often caused problems for the locals in his neighbourhood. He didn’t enjoy school and says that he just didn’t fit in, he didn’t enjoy being told what to do and decided to leave school at 16.
He continued to lose sight of things as he fell out with his parents very often and at the age of 16 he decided to leave home and move into a friends extremely small one bedroom apartment, his friend happened to be a drug dealer and this evidently led to Edward using this to his advantage, they quickly became known in the area and this led to a lot of very dangerous situations. All night party’s with drugs flowing regularly and various numbers of women coming and going from their apartment regularly, often strippers and pole dancers.
Edward states that the lifestyle was inevitable, “I grew up on Sunset Boulevard, it’s pretty obvious what was gonna happen and as soon as I discovered bands like Guns N Roses, The Doors, Zeppelin and Aerosmith that was it. It worked for those guys why wouldn’t it work for me.”
He began various bands and played regularly in the local area’s but none of the bands ever lasted long, he continued to perform with various bands but he never found anything that fit.”
He has never worked a normal job and has decided to try to make it as a solo artist, he is currently unsigned and his unpredictability and his excessiveness could be something that has put labels off from signing him in the past.
His image is quite clearly influenced by the Glam Metal period of the 70’s and 80’s. His influences include Guns N Roses, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith and The Doors but has stated that modern acts like Miss Vanity, Infinite, Mind, Reckoner and Glamazon are huge influences.
Edited by user 10 January 2011 05:22:00(UTC)
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