Jason Vitelli is a Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter whose powerful performances and writing embody a most stirring character. A smattering of genres, including folk, blues, progressive rock, and jazz, bring to life his emotive delivery.

His journey began as a child studying and performing on classical piano. This focus expanded in his teen years to include electric guitar, through which he learned how to play his favorite grunge tunes. Thereafter, Jason studied composition/vocal performance at Binghamton University (BA, 2001) and music technology at NYU (MM, 2003). The combination of these learned skills allowed him to compose music for short film, documentary, new media, and theater.

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His varied experience soon brought him to start a business in 2005 called Music for Multimedia. This company licenses music out to producers while it also provides funding for new recording projects. Inadvertently through his composing, Jason found he was longing to perform again. He soon began writing songs about his life in New York that he would perform at the local open mikes. The repertoire grew and he gained the wherewithal to perform full sets around the NYC circuit. In tandem, he used his acquired engineering and arranging skills to self-produce these songs into an album. Recording started in mid-2006 and finished up over the summer of 2008. He finished the album with the former Atlantic Studios mastering engineer Barry Diament, resulting in a concept album much inspired by the British art rock albums of the late 70’s (ala Peter Gabriel, Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, David Bowie). Similar to these albums, Jason combines songs with instrumentals and uses a large sonic palette from which his protean lyrics emerge. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.