«Maite Itoiz and John Kelly» is right now one of the underground alternative bands with most sales of the country. From zero, with no marketing support, they remained in the German top 100 charts for many weeks, selling a very big amount of CDs of their current album «Tales from the Secret Forest» and reaching the number 1 in several online shops charts, like Amazon. Nowadays that’s a big achievement, especially for a band playing Neoclassic, Celtic-Rock, fantasy and Early music, so-called «non commercial» music…

Maite is the producer of the band. With two complete classical careers under her belt (classical guitar and lyric singing) and years performing as an opera singer with some of the most important singers of the world together with her very open mind for all types of music make her compositions and arrangements sound big and magic. As a consequence, she spends a lot of time at the studio, producing also for various other artists.

Due to her studies and vocal experience performing in Early Music ensembles, she fearlessly inserts music starting from the 12th century in the live show, following the original scores and making the people clap and dance with it, as it is certainly a rock band which is playing on stage. Surprisingly, Codex Calixtinus, Livre Vermell, Alfonso X, Juan del Enzina, fit perfectly with the rest of the Celtic-rock and fantasy music program, making from «Tales from the Secret Forest» a unique act.

After 30 years of musical career, John has sold over 20 million albums and 2.5 million music videos. Now he adds his warm voice and charming look to the fantasy show. He performed together with artists like Lionel Richie, Pavarotti, Carreras, Joe Cocker or Elton John and got awards like the Echo, Goldene Kamera, Bambi, golden Otto, etc. Now he gives his knowledge of so many years to the show and tries to stay independent, so no external labels can change the essence of the Secret Forest.

Additionally, the visually attractive concept of the show, with self-designed costumes, choreographies, the fairy tale that joins the whole show and the surprises with the radical music style changes make the audience be in tension till the end of the show, when the «Solstice’s night dance» breaks the barriers between both worlds, joining humans and fairies in dance on stage.



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