Biography

When shes not playing guitar or listening to her favorite bands, chances are Sam Lombardi will be singing her lungs out. With her unique voice and style, Sam Lombardi has already accomplished a lot in her short singing career, and will no doubt achieve further success in the near future. Sam Lombardi is a 17 year old rock singer, songwriter and performer from Melbourne, Australia.

She has been singing as long as she can remember, but at the age of 9, she began singing lessons and hasnt shut up since! Sam is signed exclusively to MPM Artist Management for the world and they are helping her to achieve her full potential as an artist in her own right, and have been working hard to facilitate the development of her budding career.

For the last 14 months she worked on her first album Take Your Pic with producers from all over the world. With people like, Darren Noble of Titanium Productions in NY, Phil Haywood of Flashpoint UK in London, Danny Simcic of Attitude & Rhythm Productions and Michael Puskas and Clarence Jey of Apollo Music, Melbourne, Australia. Samantha also co-wrote three of the songs on the album including, Ordinary Day, Moment in Time and Open Your Eyes It also features songs written by, John Ingoldsby and Charlie Clouser of NIN and Andreas Carlsson of The Location etc.

In October of 2005 Samantha signed a US release deal for her album and her first single Young & Stupid was released through her own label, Bad Apple on Black Sea Records on the 12th December 2005, and her album was released on the 25th Dec 2005 through Black Sea Records also. Her album is currently available on CD Baby, Tower Online, Indie 911, IAC and I Tunes as well as at local retail outlets across the US. In January 2006 the radio plugging mainstay, He Sells She Sells serviced US radio programmers with the CD and in 6 weeks she was added to 58 stations on light rotation with a particular emphasis on the singles, Young & Stupid and Ordinary Day.

Most recently Samantha has secured the following highly marketable opportunities as further credits to her steadily growing career.

She was commissioned by LA based animation company, Taffy Ent / Mike Young Productions to write and record the theme to the new US animated series, Growing up Creepie which will be airing in the fall on the Discovery block for NBC and has already been syndicated worldwide. The series will also be presented as a major interactive platform on the web and will build a youth community style portal unlike any other in the market today. http://www.mikeyoungproductions.com

She recently won a Golden Kayak award for best hard rock song off her album on the Independent Artist Company Top 50 site for the tune, Im Over You. http://iacmusic.com/artist.aspx?id=15993

Her video for Ordinary Day reached the number one spot first week in on the EATV site and has been in the charts for the last 2 months. She currently sits at number 4 right now. Her other tracks Do You and Ordinary Day sit high on the EA Radio charts and have continued to climb with new votes coming in every week. http://www.evolvingartist.com/eaTV_Top10.aspx

Her single, Ordinary Day peaked at number 8 on the Air Radio UK charts and most of her songs have ben mainstay chart contenders since she launched just over 12 months ago. http://www.airradio.net

Most of her original material was licensed into the MTV/Vh1 broadcast platform in the US and the material has now begun its worldwide syndication into broadcast platforms around the world. http://www.mtv.com

She also licensed much of her material through the dedicated team at Music Supervisor in NY and has steadily been chosen to have her music featured in a number of quality television and advertising platforms. http://www.musicsupervisor.com

Her ever popular new website has done 137,268 web hits since she launched in November 2005 and continues to grow each day with more and more fans signing up to her website for new updates and special promotional giveaways. http://www.samanthalombardi.com

Samantha was chosen by national retailer, Dick Smith Powerhouse to perform a series of unplugged, acoustic shows with her guitarist in specialist stores in Victoria. As a consolation a local pressing of her CD was produced and is now being sold in store to a strong reaction from local listeners. The success of these showcase performances have led the marketing department to move this venture interstate and a tour is now in the planning stages for June and July 2006. http://www.dse.com.au