Al Conti

Al Conti 出生在阿根廷布宜诺斯艾利斯，母亲是芭蕾演员，父亲是音乐家。Al Conti 从小就感受到来自家庭的艺术氛围。他现在生活在美国从事新世纪音乐的创作，虽然深知自己属于录音室音乐人，但他立志以 Loreena McKennitt 为榜样，不为商业利益诱惑，独立的进行音乐制作。于是，他成立了自己的唱片公司 Shadowside Music，并于相继发表了《Shadows》(2006)、《Poeta》(2007)，2张专辑出版后，获得听众和乐评家的高度推崇，在著名的新世纪网站 New Age Reporter 的年度最佳专辑的排行榜中名列前茅。2008年《Scheherazade》专辑更是获得了 New Age Reporter 的年度“最佳世界音乐专辑”大奖。 by William Ruhlmann Vermont-based new age composer/multi-instrumentalist Al Conti was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, of Italian and German ancestry. Growing up in Argentina, he developed interests in acting and music. He began teaching himself to play piano and guitar at age six, and started acting lessons at eight. Those lessons led to a career as a stage actor in Argentina. He moved to the U.S. at 17, and by the age of 20 had an agent, resulting in roles on-stage, in film, and on the soap opera As the World Turns. (In 1983, he played Sargent Shriver in the TV miniseries Kennedy.) In the early '90s, he became more serious about composing music, but it wasn't until 2004 that he gave up acting in favor of music. In 2006, he released his debut album, Shadows, on his own Shadowside label. Poeta followed in 2007, and on October 7, 2008, Conti released Scheherazade.