Award-winning musician and record producer Kris Searle was a guest on the latest segment of Eye on Entertainment on Time Warner Cable. Searle won “Best International Artist” at the 2008 Los Angeles Music Awards, which were founded by Al Bowman and were held in October 2008 at the Music Box Theatre in Hollywood. His producer Dino Maddalone won “Record Producer of the Year” for Searle’s first album “Slowly Diabolical. Since then, Searle has gone on to win other awards and accolades and his career is skyrocketing. He performed his new song with his partner Leslie Stoddard and the show includes an interview with record producer and studio owner Dino Maddalone.
Searle was born in Herne Bay, United Kingdom, and was the youngest soprano with the Kent South Singers at the age of 11. In numerous interviews, he has mentioned that his father Tony was his mentor and bought him his first guitar. While his mother Dawn and sister Katie appeared on the red carpet with Searle at the 2008 Los Angeles Music Awards, Searle was saddened that his father Tony was not there to share in his huge triumph. Tony passed away in November 2006. Searle was the runner-up in Invicta FM’s Pepsi Chart Search for a Star competition and invested his savings into a record company in the UK. When the record company failed, Searle lost his money and decided to try his luck in the United States at the age of 22.
The loss of his record company and his money in the UK turned out to be a blessing in disguise when Searle and his record producer Dino Maddalone were triumphant at the 2008 Los Angeles Music Awards. Searle launched his own independent record label in 2008, Inspire U Records, and will release an independent compilation album next year called “Inspired Artist 2010”. Searle’s career has been exploding and following are some of his recent projects and accolades:
· Nominated for “Best Male Artist” on Rock Wired radio show and magazine readers poll
· BBC featured artist in the UK played on regional and prime stations throughout UK
· Nominated for TRIPLE A SINGLE of the YEAR 2009 L.A Music Awards - Hollywood Palladium
· Working with N’Sync PR guru, Brad Senesac, for a 2010 Grammy submission
· Recently released “Honestly Remix” (from debut album) with UK rapper AYO
· Collaborated on a dance track with UK BIG BROTHER celebrity DARNELL (due out 2010)
· Signed a deal to write the music for an animation feature trilogy titled WHALE MAGIC
For all the latest on multi-talented musician Kris, visit http://www.krissearle.com/. To contact guitarist and songwriter, Leslie Stoddard, visit: www.myspace.com/guitarmuse. Present at the shoot were John P. Cox, John Alsedek, Dawna Lee Heising, Dino Maddalone, Leslie Stoddard, Searle’s business manager Bob Leggett and Paul F. Heising.
About Dino Maddalone Productions
Dino Maddalone is a film, television and video games music producer. He owns a state-of-the-art recording and post production studio in Los Angeles Calif. Maddalone composes, produces, records, mixes and digitally masters music for clients. He has many credits for television and film, and has been a music producer, engineer and mixer for over 22 years. For more information, call 310-782-1440 or email him at: dinom4@aol.com.
About Eye on Entertainment
“Eye on Entertainment”, a division of Eye on Excellence™ Productions, is aired twice weekly on Time Warner Cable in Southern California. The “Eye on Entertainment” team covers entertainment events, awards shows and red carpets, and features interviews with successful people in all walks of life, exploring the traits they have in common. Dawna Lee Heising is the executive producer and host of EOE. She is a long-standing member of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) & AFTRA, and is Ms. Universe 2009. The show is produced and directed by John P. Cox, an educator in the film and video department at Golden West and Orange Coast Colleges. The show is produced and directed by John C. Alsedek, who is also the writer, director & producer of the horror anthology series AS DARKNESS FALLS…, which runs on Time Warner Cable. The EOE photographer is David J. McNeil, who is a former executive with United Artists and was one of the original developers of Pay-per-View. The EOE business manager is Paul F. Heising. For more information, please visit: http://www.eyeonentertainment.tv/ and www.youtube.com/eyeonentertainment