Mario Spinetti

Bio

A day after Danny Tidwell danced a solo to Mario Spinetti’s “Delirious” on So You Think You Can Dance, Spinetti had over 3,000 new listens on his MySpace. Don’t be fooled though, he’s no newcomer to the music industry. By the age of 13, Spinetti had arranged, directed, and performed musical compositions for major television networks in New York City. By 16, he had taken a solo bow at Carnegie Hall and headlined a week-long tour in Mexico a year later. Spinetti’s genius comes from taking his life experiences and the emotions he’s had to deal with, and developing them into different characters through song. “I am inspired by people as metaphors. I spend most of my days contemplating social issues – imbalances, wrong-doings, incongruities... Every so often I see an individual who microcosmically represents everything I have been feeling. This person puts a face to my emotions and a character standpoint to write from. It is at this moment that I am able to create.” There is no formula outside of Spinetti’s complete surrender to his process; dedicating his feelings to characters, his characters to music, his music to records, and his records to the world. After being featured in the spring 2007 issue, movmnt magazine got to know and love Spinetti’s talents as a performer and songwriter. For his first contribution as a music industry insider, Spinetti discusses the pop generation and what should be demanded from today’s musicians in “American Impotence.”

From the contributors page of movmnt No. 5 · Fall 2007, p. 11.