Alina and Amadeo met in 2000 at "Escuela de Musica Popular de Avellaneda", where they were" studying jazz, tango and folklore.
They started to work together in 2001, doing wedding, events and all kind of commercial gigs, as well as joining jam sessions, always mixing up professionalism with creativity and enjoyment of music.
Later on, each one took his own way to develop their professional and artistic careers.
But Fados (fate) gave them the chance to get together and show all the experience gathered through the years: in 2008 they were called to play at the ìJohn Barry Barî, Grand Hyatt Muscat (Oman), where they are still performing with excellent feedback from both the audience and the managers (Reference Letter available).
By forming Blue Velvet, they found the perfect blend of live show and artistic music; acoustic sound and backtrack accompaniment; well arranged songs with a touch of improvisation; high-energy and still cool and relaxing.
Top 40s, Pop, Jazz, Latin, Bossa Nova, are some of the styles they play at the shows, making it dynamic and changing.
Do you want to request a song? They can play it. The repertoire they handle is diverse and always increasing, and doing the best in every song they do.
Does your venue suits for a totally acoustic band? Blue Velvet can be also a trio including soft percussion; and even a quartet, allowing our amazing saxophone, flute and clarinet player to embellish our music even more.

All these professional skills and experience, mixed with a warm and friendly way to relate with guests and management, ensures that Blue Velvet suits your place.

Alina Bielak
Lead Vocals, Piano, Keyboard, Minor Percussion

Alina Bielak was born 5 May 1981 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
She was first turned on to music at age 7. When she was 9 years old, she started playing piano, and at age 13 she started singing lessons.
Alina would then continue studying classical music at ìConservatorio Nacional de Musica Clasicaî, and jazz, tango and folklore at ìEscuela de Musica Popular de Avellanedaî, in Buenos Aires City.
She also studied Arabic dance, joining a company and performing at a festival in Sao Paolo, Brazil in 1994.
She started to work professionally at the age of 18 as a solo piano-singer in events, weddings, hotels.
She also joined the tango orchestra ìORQUESTA MUNICIPAL DE AVELLANEDAî, directed by renowned Hector Mele, performing at renowned theatres.
Later on, she moved to Spain were she continued her career playing at the cities of Barcelona, Madrid and Granada.
In January 2008 she fulfilled a four month contract with ìSavia Latinaî Trio, at the hotel ìThe Palace, The Old Townî (Sofitel) in Dubai, with great success among guests and hotel managers. (Reference Letter available).

Amadeo Gallardo
Acoustic Guitar, 6-String Bass, Backing Vocals, Backtracks programming

Amadeo Gallardo was born 24 October 1981 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
His father (guitar player and singer), taught him his first guitar lessons at the age of 10.
At 15, he took his first bass lesson, which would be the start of a very successful career as a musician.
He studied Jazz, Tango and Folklore at ìEscuela de Musica Popular de Avellanedaî, where he got his degree in Latin American Music.
At 18 he started performing in weddings, hotels, events, etc.
He would join later a production show, ìRisas de la Tierraî, as performer and arranger, where he would play in some of the best theatres in the country.
In 2006 he began working on board Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines "Sovereign of the Seas", as a member of the ships orchestra. With the orchestra he played production shows (sight reading), in ballroom dance parties, played live jazz in the cocktail lounges, and played new music every day for guest entertainers. Amadeo fulfilled a 6 month contract for Royal Caribbean.
In 2008 he was called to form part of the Inaugural Team of the ìQueen Victoriaî, from Cunard, where he joined the ball room orchestra and the Chartroom Jazz Trio. He completed with Cunard a 4 months contract, in a world cruise.
He completed both contracts successfully, and with great evaluations.

After this contract, he joined an orchestra in Galicia, Spain, as bass player, director and arranger. He also recorded the backtrack accompaniments for the orchestra