Dean Madonia
  • The War Came Home To Me
  • American Love Song
  • One Good Woman Away
  • On The Way Home
  • The Falling Of Our Love
  • Without A Net
  • Wishbone
  • The Way I Do
  • Walking The Solitude
  • I'll Fall In Love Again
  • Deep Sky
  • The Strength To Leave
  • The Big Crunch (Stephen Says)
  • The Light Of Reason
  • American Love Song
  • The Raft Of the Medusa
  • Let It Heal
  • Full Fathom Five
  • Poor Man's Physician
  • What Do You Feel
  • Cannot Turn Away
  • No Tomorrow
  • Even As We Live
  • Back To the Ocean
  • One Good Woman Away
  • Midlife Crisis
  • Little Boy Blue
  • Faraway
  • Mighty Fine Line
  • Second Chance Town
  • Best Friend
  • Fake It Till You Make It
  • Bound
  • Killing Time
  • Country and Midwestern
Biography

Dean Madonia - Bio


Born and raised Kalamazoo Michigan, Dean is both a musician, and a visual artist. He has been playing piano professionally since age 8 when he began performing during his musician father's breaks at the local Ramada Inn piano bar. Picking up the guitar at age 13, Dean performed his originals in various coffeehouses throughout high-school and while attending Central Michigan University. At Central, he starred for two seasons in a local PBS children's television show Acorns and Oak-trees, where he was required to write and perform a song live each week for an audience of faculty children. Moving to South Florida in the eighties, Dean performed and recorded with over 40 original and cover bands and opened for such diverse acts as: New Grass Revival, Steve Vai, Dee Dee Ramone, Company B, Dottie West, and Ygnwie Malmsteen .

In the 90's, Dean's original band Third Wish/Wyscan, (featuring legendary jrock and azz guitarist Jonathan Kreisberg) released a three song self- titled EP as Third Wish and a full length CD also titled Third Wish when they changed their name to Wyscan. Third Wish was distributed mostly in Japan through jazz/fusion guitarist Bon Lozago's label, Lo Lo Records . On completion of that CD, Dean left Wyscan to start his own label, Soft Monkey Music and to record and release his first solo CD, Deep Sky which was released to rave reviews in 1998.

Dean began to concentrate more on writing while working in Jon Secada's production studio Heaven Studios with producer/engineer Charles Dye and has four songs under single song contract with Emilio Estefan's company, Foreign Imported Publishing . Dean has been making trips to Nashville to write and perform since 1999, and finally settled here in 2002 where he has made a living playing
music, performing as a solo act, with his band, and with many Nashville stars including Julie Roberts, Gary Allan and Billy Currington. Dean's two newest solo CDs, The Light Of Reason and Madness And Desire: One Night In America (Dean Madonia sings Scott Avery) are now available.













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  • Members:
    Dean Madonia, Val Lupescu, Travis Vance, Mike Walter
  • Sounds Like:
    Elton John (pre-glam), Toad the Wet Sprocket, Kevin Gilbert, Jeff Buckley, Coldplay
  • Influences:
    Paul Simon, Elton John (pre-glam), Toad the Wet Sprocket, Joni Mitchell, Kevin Gilbert, Jeff Buckley, Coldplay
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    08/08/06
  • Profile Last Updated:
    08/14/23 23:07:54

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