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	IHAB MASSAAD, piano entertainer Ihab Massaad started his professional music career in 1976 playing the piano and keyboards with dance bands in Beirut and Dubai. In 1987 he moved to Sweden where he established his solo career as a singing piano entertainer. In 1997 he also began playing in Norway, Finland and Denmark. Ihab Massaad’s repertoire spans a whole range of songs, from the 30’s all the way to todays hit songs and he can perform them all with Piano and singing alone or with added base keyboard and drum machine, all played live. This makes his music appeal to all ages, from young to old in any constellation, with either age group separate or mixed.
	CEZAR "O", piano-bar entertainer Cezar’s career began in 1989 traveling throughout the World with his debut in New York. He then went on to join Renaissance Cruise Lines as a pianist and then as a bandleader, where he spent almost two years in the Caribbean, Baltic and the Mediterranean seas. Upon arrival at home in Australia, Cezar formed a group named I.C.E. and in 1993 entered channel 10’s New Faces competition and won with his original song “Only You”. Cezar’s songwriting success continued when several other of his songs reached the Australian Songwriters Association national song finals.
	AWA TRAORE piano-bar entertainer Awa is a beautiful sultry multi-talented pianist, keyboard player, composer, vocalist, arranger, musical manager and professor who discovered her love and natural ability for the piano as a child. As a young girl she began her classical education at the Regional Music academy of Avignon playing, singing in choirs and professional masteries while mastering self taught improvisation, jazz and the music of other continents. Awa is truly an impressive, diversified, accomplished artist who brings a wealth of experience, a variety of musical influences and impressive talent to her performance.
	GLENN MONIE, piano entertainer Glenn is one of the most entertaining and energetic entertainers in piano-bar bussines today. Many Years of experience in leading pianobar venues in UK and Europe make Glenn a MUST for every pianobar today.
	TONY PETRA, pianobar entertainer Truly a pro entertainer of all types of popular music, from Sinatra, to Willy Nelson, blues, standards, pop to rock, Tony Petra performs true to style.
	DAVE COOLEY, pianobar entertainer David Cooley has been wowing crowds with his passion and talent for music since his days as the second grader who conducted his school’s orchestra. His lifelong commitment to music, song, and dance has included tours and performances across the U.S. and around the world. Along the way, he’s worked with guitar and piano masters and has immersed himself in pop, rock, blues, jazz, and swing. Performing is David's pleasure, his passion, and a significant part of his life. The stage is his living room, and he loves to entertain his guests.
	BORTON JOHN, pianobar entertainer Born in Windsor Ontario Canada in 1962, but raised in Listowel as his Dad Travelled at his job from place to place it took a while before finally settling down. Never taking music lessons, I took up the piano as a teenager and joined his first band in 1979. His first real gig was a Terry Fox Run Fundraiser in 1980. It seemed to be the only thing he could count on for his salvation. Playing in many bands over the years, motels with holes in the walls, ceilings falling down the decision was made to play only weddings, private functions, and fund raisers. What a great decision !
	LAURIE GARDNER, piano entertainer Born in a small town North of Detroit, Michigan...Laurie Anne Gardner has been singing, playing piano, and writing songs since the age of 10. In 1990..Laurie moved to Los Angeles where she worked in the film business for almost 10 years both in front of the camera and behind. She also played in several bands including the critically acclaimed "California Girls" and they toured California, Washington and Las Vegas.
	TED ROBINSON, pianobar entertainer Teddy Robinson's music is a variety of sounds and dimensions, he is a genius of soul, jazz, and country music. He also plays the harmonica. Ted is performing in the top venues - hotels piano bars all over the world and is allways re-engaged back. A real "pro" in the pianobar bussines.
	HERMAN HARPER II, pianobar entertainer Originally from the San Francisco, California Bay Area, USA. "Entertainer Extraordinaire", Herman Harper II, is a Recording Artist, Singer, Song Writer, Musician. Actor, Play Write and Producer. Herman has performed and shared his talents throughout the USA and abroad. He has also written and composed two Gospel Musicals. Herman's additional attributes consist of Vocal Instruction, Stage direction, Recording and Stage production.
	JAMIE FLETCHER, pianobar entertainer Jamie hails from the great state of Wisconsin – home of cheese, snow, polka, and yes, da Pack! With a BA in International Political Economics and an MS in Broadcast Journalism, Jamie’s logical career endeavor was to travel the world playing piano! The opportunity to follow her dream arrived as an emergency opening for a keyboard player in a cruise ship show-band two weeks after finishing her Masters. Predominantly self-taught, Jamie was thrilled to be thrown headfirst into her soul calling and through hard work and determination she is living and loving her dream of playing music professionally.
	REMEK KOPACZ, piano entertainer Remek Kopacz was born in Poland. He started to play piano at the early age of six. Later he started to study classical piano in the Music School in his home town for many years. However, he soon noticed that his heart lays more in jazz, blues and pop music. Already as teenager he started performing with jazz & blues bands in the Blues and Jazz clubs all over Poland.
	TOPAZ DUO, piano bar entertainers TOPAZ are a British all female piano vocal duo consisting of two talented and versatile performers Jodie Cooper and Debbie Shaw. TOPAZ formed in early 2009 when the girls decided to pool their ideas and talents to form a sensational all female piano vocal duo which has since become successful. They have excellent performance and presentation skills and great onstage chemistry.
	ATANAS BONCHEV pianobar entertainer Born and grown up in a family with good musical tradition, Nasko B finished primary and then graduated high music school with violin and piano at the High Music School in Burgas, BG. Early, in the 70’s Nasko started as a member (keyboard player) in a popular group in his home town. Nasko founded his own band and traveled in Scandinavia, Germany and Austria for many years. As a piano entertainer he started working in 1994, mostly on board of the Norwegian ferryboat company “Color Line” and also on shore in Norway at high mountains resorts.
	AMANDAH JANTZEN, pianobar entertainer Amandah was born in San Francisco. Passionate about music, self taught singer, guitarist and piano player she performed at piano bars and jazz jams to perfect her trade. In Portland, Oregon she recorded a demo with bassist Leroy Vinnegar's trio featuring Geoff Lee on piano and Mel Brown on drums; in 1994 she sang the National Anthem at an NBA Portland Trailblazer game where there was a huge crowd. Amandah was offered an opening for Charlie Byrd which led to a major career altering decision by accompanying herself on piano. In 1998 she recorded her first CD which had great reviews and led to other recordings of standards which showed her wonderful ability to bring out the emotion of classic tunes.
	RODDY, pianobar entertainer Roddy was born in 1958 in Gabrovo, Bulgaria. In 1977-1983 he has been studying piano on the Academy on Music and High School of music in Bulgaria. After finishing his studies Roddy has been joined top 40 dance band with which he has been touring as keyboard player and vocalist trough various Hotels and Clubs all over Europe; Lichtenstein, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Norway, Sweden and Finland.
	RIE FURUSE, pianobar entertainer Paris based vocalist/pianist Rié FURUSE took up the piano at age three and launched her singing career while she was a student. She has learned singing with the renowned vocalist Diva Gray (a former member of Chic) and has sung with world-class musicians such as the vocalist Janis Siegel (Manhattan Transfer), Philip Woo (pf) etc. Rié is trilingual, speaking excellent French and English apart from her native Japanese. Her music influences are the vocalists such as Eva Cassidy, Lalah Hathaway and Roberta Flack.
	BRIAN McCARTHY, pianobar entertainer Brian McCarthy has been a professional performing musician/vocalist for over 20 years and is a virtuoso on both Piano and the Electric guitar. He has played in many different and diverse musical situations, from playing lead guitar/fronting bands to playing solo piano gigs,as well as being a sound technician/ producer and a studio musician. In fact, Brian has one of the most diverse musical repetoires of any musician out there from his experiences in both the serious and the popular music worlds.
	ANDREW OLIVER, pianobar entertainer The English rock/pop pianist and vocalist, started piano lessons aged nine and joined the local church choir soon after. In his teenage years Andrew played piano, percussion and tuba and sang with many youth classical ensembles.

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