THE STORY SO FAR...
   

Mr Greg Camilleri was born on the last day of the seventies. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California.

In 1997, Greg picked up a guitar and formed a Berkeley-scene indie band, Animal Number 54, that would span 3 and 1/2 years and over 80 songs. During this time he also took voice training classes, and acted in several stage productions and independent films (including Groove, and even a video for LeAnn Rimes.)

After high school Greg found employment at a Berkeley print agency making industrial videos before getting sucked into the black void of the Bay Area dot com rush. After 3 years of living in San Francisco, moving to Emeryville, then ultimately getting laid off, Greg packed everything up, charged the credit cards and moved down the state line to Los Angeles to get back into entertainment.

Upon arrival to LA, he sat down to write a feature film script, a departure from music, which was (surprisingly) well received on it's travels around the Hollywood circuit. He became a producer's assistant, and had the opportunity to work with pretty much everyone he had ever seen on TV or in a movie. He learned what a film producer does, and invaluable experiences from every side of the movie-making world.

At the same time, 2002 marked a 'return' to music for Greg as he would end up playing his first-ever acoustic solo shows in clubs clubs, while recording and eventually self-releasing a highly-praised 22-track album named Works in Progress LP, later condensed into the compilation albums Auditions & Callbacks. The reaction was so positive, he was asked to write a movie for MTV video director Kia Simon to be based around his songs.

Greg's solo style would eventually grow from straight rock to a significantly broader singer/songwriter 'california pop' style after becoming obsessed with the works of such artists as Aimee Mann, Fiona Apple, Jon Brion, Elliott Smith, Radiohead, Camera Obscura, Belle & Sebastian, Air, The Velvet Underground, Tegan & Sara, Le Tigre, and countless others.

In any case, after years of crazy Hollywood drama, years shrouded in mystery, crazy reports of his death, and all sorts of other exciting things... finally news of an all-new album Sirens (his first record in almost 7 years) may... perhaps... have some answers.

   

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