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Chieli Minucci Most Played '05 
Special EFX
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| Chieli Minucci on Café Jazz ! |
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Juice - Chieli Minucci: Featured on Best of '05 Review Part 3: Edition 394 - Jan. 29th, 2006 After his 20-plus years in the limelight, you might be wondering, "What's new for our man Minucci?" Well, it seems that in the last few, Chieli has kicked things into high gear! After a dozen years as one-half of the seminal world fusion unit Special EFX, the Emmy Award winner (for his efforts on The Guiding Light) has worked with the likes of Celine Dion & The Backstreet Boys. Yet for the past ten years, he's continued to cut a broad creative swath in smooth jazz as a producer, guest musician, and solo performer and for the past few as the leader of the resurrected Special EFX. In so doing, Minucci has laid all the groundwork for greatness!! It has become abundantly apparent; these latter aspects of his life as a musician continue to provide the greatest stimulus ... continue reading. |
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| Chieli Minucci featured on Then & Now: Edition 391 - January 8th, 2006 | ||||
| Born in Huntington, Long Island, Minucci grew up in nearby Forest Hills, Queens, where he still resides. His Italian-born father, Ulpio, was a composer who wrote for Nat King Cole and Bing Crosby. It was the elder Minucci who introduced his six-year-old son to the piano and who first encouraged him to try his hand at composing. By the time he was 8, Chieli discovered the guitar and that became his lifelong passion. He formed his first band at 13 and after high school he attended Ithaca College where he developed his unique approach to playing and where he became exposed to jazz. ... more. |
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