After the crystal

The blog behind the glass has decided to sponsor various artists to try to help them excel in their respective fields. The idea is very simple and can be summarized as advertising by advertising. It's about creating a small directory on the blog with information on different Sponsored Artists. They shall refer in their publications to the site to attract fans to the directory and, thus, the rest can be benefited by their successes. All in the family, I have the honor to help them not only with the board but also to report on events on the blog and they benefit both from my advertising as the rest of members.

As if that was not made clear here I breakdown the basis of this project:

• Sponsored Artists is a family project and I will be the contact with the artists, to propose to join the initiative.
• Once selected and accepted these terms, the Artists Sponsored send me their bios, preferably not too long, to be included as directory information.
• There will never be money involved, and I get paid by joining the initiative or the artists belong to it.
• Sponsored Artists undertake to mention the blog behind the glass by the blog's name, address (www.rorpieth.es) or by directly putting the address of the section: www.rorpieth.es / sponsored .
• After Crystal's blog promises to announce events and new works by artists sponsored.

Andres Martinez
• Bensler Carolina
• Irene Membrives
• Javi Perera
• Rita Jimenez
• Verona 9

Andres Martinez

Andres Martinez, born April 11, 1990 in San Pedro del Pinatar (Murcia), became interested in singing at the tender age of nine years. His first steps at an early age were the pop hits of the moment, but at 14 he became interested a little more for the metal and all its aspects.

His first group was Anarkos singer, a punk rock band which, by not leaving any good, not long to leave. Andrés Punk then changed by groups such as Iron Maiden, Judas Priest or Metallica, and was plunged into a musical world in which he knew he could get a lot more from your voice. But if there was a group that marked his career it was none other than Saratoga. Such was his enthusiasm for the band from Madrid that ended real sticking kilometers to be taught the very same Leo Jimenez, who at that time was still the lead singer of the aforementioned Saratoga.

In 2006 some friends and formed their own Andrew Headon, the band that even today is a singer and where you have placed all his hopes. Although the sound of Headon has evolved at the same time his voice, still without straying from the path of Heavy Metal with a capital and unadorned.

Besides his band also can find Andres Martinez doing covers on youtube, a hobby through which he has met many interesting people who still helping to progress with his voice every day.

You can follow his steps and his work by visiting their MYSPACE .

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Bensler Carolina

Bensler Carolina was born in Barcelona on August 14, 1987 and discovered a very young age that his life would revolve around the drawings. Finished art school with the idea of pursuing the career of Fine Arts, although due to his love of narrative and his desire to tell stories, finally bowing to the Enlightenment, better suited to their needs.

He is currently finishing his advanced studies in illustration, while working to make all sorts of commissions related to the visual arts and design. Among his current job can find web design, covers of CD's (as performed for the Argentine group Thabu), magazine covers and fan-fictions, character design for video games and artwork of all kinds, noting especially that published in the book "The Art of A Song of Ice and Fire" Gigamesh publisher.

You can follow his steps and his work by visiting her BLOG .

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Irene Membrives

Membrives Irene, born in Córdoba a December 22, 1984, holds a degree in Fine Arts specializing in Illustration and Graphic Design.

Epic fantasy lover loves to create characters and tell stories through their drawings. His style is versatile and enjoys both drawing and painting more cartoony paintings of realistic painting, as well as through Gothic and manga.

He has won several competitions of posters, like the Otaku Matsuri Castellón, or contest for young talent Edival Company in Valencia. He has also published a comic nationally in the magazine "La Parada Magacine" 1, presented at the Barcelona show in 2008 and currently on sale in bookshops or "Fnac". Recently he created the poster for the exhibition of Córdoba Comic Talents which also participates each year.

Currently working on various projects while continuing their education in fields such as animation and web design.

You can follow his steps and his work by visiting her BLOG .

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Javi Perera

Javi Perera is a singer, songwriter, producer and arranger Ceuta. He was born on August 13, 1985 in Ceuta, Spanish city located in northern Africa. Since childhood she has always loved singing since age 7 his parents enrolled at the Conservatory of Melilla, specializing in piano. His first contact with the heavy was his father, 8 years, teaching a Scorpions album "Blackout," which would mark a musical before and after him. Later he was listening to groups like Queen, Status Quo, Led Zeppelin ...

First gaits with groups
At age 15 he was called by a local group Melilla, Edon, to be keyboard player in his band. That was his first contact with the world of heavy groups. With them played with bands like Red Baron, Miranda Warning, Ariel Rot ... also played guitar in a group of his friends made with teens, called Reaper, which was a guitarist and played music in the style of Cradle Of Filth.

For personal reasons, Javi Perera Edon left the band, and would not be until later on that would have his chance, after hearing a colleague a voice recording of yourself, to be melillense Contranatura vocalist, progressive metal band with influences Dream Theater, Symphony X ... With this group only gave what would be his first and only concert in the Feria de Melilla, and that studies had to move to Ceuta.

Computer music
The discovered almost by accident in the house of his first band's guitarist, seeing that had a program in which he could record music tracks, like a recording studio. That earned him a new world where I could express their creativity and recorded singing over songs they liked.

Later, his professor at the conservatory coral showed him the world of "virtual instruments (VSTi), which could transform the music in MIDI music with real sounds. This already marked the beginning of a continuous and ongoing process of creating tests and more tests to get sound to achieve the highest sonic realism using computer-generated instruments, for the sake of self.

The icing on the cake puts Hispasonic.com web page, which is a website specializing in computer music exclusviamente in Spanish. Hence, and through many questions and many concerns, and thanks to the collaboration of the users of it, is slowly learning to get into the world of production, mixing, mastering, etc. That's where it starts to hatch their first songs with a fairly acceptable sound quality. Today is attached to this website, to which she is very grateful and satisfied.

Becoming known on the Internet
Its happened to be known by the network of networks started with Hispasonic.com, but when he started to cross the Spanish border with the webs was YouTube.com, MySpace.com Soundclick.com and in which, through videos and audio themselves respectively, began to be a little known beyond Spain.

This gives you several opportunities. One of them was being proposed as a vocalist of American band Periphery. Because Javi Perera met in their first online wanderings Misha Mansoor, guitarist of the same, when their vocalist at the time Casey left the band Sabol, unofficially he proposed to spend a vocalist auditions for Periphery. He made a couple of recordings in which one could test their skills to be part of the band, but for reasons of distance and could not be working. Still Javi Misha and still maintain contact.

Project: "Hybriido"
Following his career as a "group of one man, one day Javi Perera is discovered by blogger RorPieth ^, which sponsors on your blog Javi Perera as' sponsored artist." ^ RorPieth having contacts with musicians in the Spanish scene, it comes in contact with bassist Dragonfly, Juanba Nadal, who likes songs by Javi, and proposes to make an album with real musicians, offering Juanba bass. Javi, of course, accept the proposition, since both agree that Spain is not prepared to "one-man groups" such as for example Nine Inch Nails.

Javi Perera first thought to name his project titled, but it seemed perhaps too self-centered, so I decided to call it "Hybriido" because, as Javi Perera, "no two songs I like to do the same or the same style. I like the variations in style, mixing between these ... Creating hybrids. Doubling the "I" is because there are several groups that have an "I" and, if things go well, to avoid potential problems with the name after the fact.

This project is going to join the virtuoso Art Rodriguez, but for study failed to join, so the current guitarist Dragonfly, Alberto Alba, joined this project.

Hybriido is self-produced by Javi Perera, using only a laptop and a sound card, and possibly after the end signed to Pagan Records.
You can follow his steps and his work by visiting their MYSPACE .

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Rita Jimenez

Rita Jimenez was born in Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz) on August 14, 1983. Although his interest in music came from a very young, it was not until age 17 when he tried to be more than a hobby. At that time he met his good friend Alberto, who shared her passion for music. They decided to join forces and together they performed at local bars and doing acoustic versions of familiar songs.

Rita started writing a couple of years later, when he met an online music community called Macworld. There he met Niko, in addition to forging a close friendship, formed a group called Iris. Rita met with this project and made his first steps in music "Gothic", which was carrying him slowly to the genre that currently most likes, Heavy Metal.

From 2004 to 2006 Rita and Niko worked hard at his musical project Iris, and their efforts were rewarded when they managed to bring out his first album: "The Door of Dreams." This album is a mix of styles as diverse as the Metal, Gothic Rock and New Age music, and plunges you into a fantasy world where everything imaginable is possible. After the release of this album and with the intent to prepare thoroughly for any direct, Rita begins to give singing lessons. These classes came very well for a little later to make his live debut with a concert in Seville. Both the recording and its distribution had made two of them, but that did not stop the disc had some impact, especially in Andalusia, giving them the opportunity to record a video clip and to act in various galas.

Although the project was going well, Rita had to move to Madrid for personal and project Iris stood.

Once installed in his new city, Rita knows the urban rock group Getafe Disciples of Salieri. This group had just published his first album, "Identity", produced by Leo Jiménez (Stratovarius, ex-Saratoga) and it so happened they were looking for a female voice to make the direct choirs. Rita did the test and almost immediately joined the group that has already taken its first concerts.

Rita Jimenez currently finds itself with Disciples of Salieri in the preparation of which will be the band's second album.

You can follow his steps and his work by visiting their MYSPACE .

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Verona 9

The history of Verona 9 arises from an ad on the Internet: 'musicians wanted for pop-rock project funded and future-oriented. " They respond to him Noah (vocals), Ivan (keyboards) and Carlos (bass), experienced the last two in different bands with different styles (from pop music to metal end) of the scene Madrid / South. There are known and work in the same, even begin to outline some of the band's own songs, like "Without your smile." But the project did not prove what was promised and what are gradually being abandoned, because of disagreements with the form of address.

Then the idea to form a new rock band free and creative self with the battery that was mentioned project and start working various topics. This era is the first group demo recorded by the components themselves without too much media. It consists of three tracks, "Water", "Ember" and "Without your smile", the first two sung in English, and which appreciates the diversity of influences and facets that time the band wants to show, from the style more unusual and forceful "Ember" to more traditional ballads like "Without Your Smile", from "Water" on average, but always searching for good melodies as the cornerstone.

Subsequently, several dropouts occur and changes in training, during which the band continues to work as a trio to record a self-financed studio LP. This initially have the services of producer and guitarist Fernando Girón (Carlos Baute, The Garb, etc). Under the leadership of the group takes a new direction, with a more uniform and simple, pop-rock cutting, but without losing the personal touch given the very different influences of each of its members. It is the most prolific period of the band, which is up more than a dozen items, with the intention to select the 11 best that will be part of the disc.

During this time the band joins Mary (drums and violinist called) and give a concert in the hall Joaquin Sabina very well received by audiences and critics. An account of it in local free press (Madrid Sur, Metro.) Further training is completed the band with the addition of Tristan Edgar Hernandez on guitar, student, among others, the guitarist of the Mexican group Maná.

This addition coincides with the second demo recording of the band, composed of two tracks ("Cast Away" and "I'll know that you will smile") that shows the new line style adopted by the band. Is imposed Castilian in the letters and both the style and structure of the themes become more conventional and direct (without involving decrease in the demand for the band to try to make good songs and melodies), seeking an opening to them closer to the ordinary public in the hard beginnings. It also appreciates the musical evolution as a group and a much more careful on the issue of arrangements, not in the technical media, which remains limited.

For professional reasons related to economic conditions Edgar is forced to leave the band and was immediately replaced by Joaquín López "Quino" who after a break-in period for various scenarios with Verona in September, also announced its abandonment of incompatibility regarding their other dedicaciones.Tras a search for new guitarists to the continued work of the group, Peter appears, eager and excited about the project, giving Verona September 1 breath of air, contributing their personal touches that enrich the songs already created. Currently the band is dedicated to finalizing details of the issues and the preparations of the same long view to the live presentation of the group, marking the first objective, to further address the experience of the recording studio with confidence and a more consolidated proposal as a band, with the background that gives the settlement of new components and integration of the issues by themselves and their personal contribution by the songs themselves.

You can follow his steps and his work by visiting their MYSPACE .

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