Pablo Minoli

Pablo Minoli

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Musician / Composer of Rock

Pablo Minoli had a dream: to play guitar for the rest of his live. That dream brought him from Uruguay to Venezuela and then to Europe. It made him a legendary guitar player and composer: first recognized by the metal scene, but now Pablo has shared his skills with many artists, genres and projects including award winning ‘Ali B op Volle Toeren’, an acoustic guitar project with The Ark and composing for Dutch soul artist Alain Clark. Pablo Minoli’s amazing music story started in Uruguay and Venezuela, but got boosted when he moved to Amsterdam in 1992 with his metal band Laberinto. Pablo studied guitar at the Roland Music Institute in Caracas (Venezuela) after which he formed metal band Laberinto in 1989. In 1992 the complete band moves to Europe where they manage to perform at local venues, surprising the Amsterdam music scene with their revolutionary sound (subscribed as ‘Metalatino’). After an appearance on local television their success begins: between 1995 and 2004 they release 5 albums and they tour to many big festivals in Budapest, Spain, France, Germany, Czech Republic and more. They even go back to South-America to perform at “Rock al Parque” in Bogota (Colombia) in front of 100.000 people and they appear in a TV special in Venezuela.  Also in Europe they star at TV- & radio specials (like Rock Palace in Germany) and get press reviews in all leading European music-magazines. During the Laberinto years Pablo develops into a legend to many metal fans and he even got listed in the top 20 of the worlds’ best guitarists in a poll of a major Brazilian music magazine.  Pablo left Laberinto in 2004 to explore new options. A year after leaving Laberinto Pablo starts an Extreme Metal band called “D-Compose”, with whom he tours to Italy, Poland, Germany and Czech Republic. You might not expect a metal guitarist to be interested in Black Music, but Pablo always was inspired by several music styles. He started working with many artists, performing as their guitarist and/or composing new songs in the studio. He performs at the Blue Note label Anniversary party and tours with Brainpower (Hiphop), Big Boy Caprice (soul), Junior Tecla, Ledisi (soul/USA), Shirma Rouse (Soul), Maikal X (reggae), Strawl and The Cousins (reggae) and Hind (pop / representative for Holland on Eurovision Song festival 2008). When he joins The Ark (2006 - acoustic project of John van der Veer) he travels to prestigious places like the International Guitar Festival (Bath Spa University – England) and The Sage (New Castle, England). After recording for several soul artists, he is asked to play for songs of Alain Clark’s album “Live it Out” (also featuring Steve Gadd and Pablo Penton) and co-writes the song “Go There” in 2007. In 2010 he is recruited as composer, guitarist and producer for a TV-project: ‘Ali B op Volle Toeren’. The concept of the TV-show involves making a new interpretation of old, famous Dutch songs. The songs get re-written by “The Sleepless” (Pablo Minoli, Pablo Penton and Brownie Dutch): every song including Ali B and a guest rapper. They worked with: Ben Cramer, Dennie Christian, Bonnie St.Claire, Henny Vrienten, Lenny Khur, Willeke Alberti and Anneke Grönloh; all big names in The Netherlands.  The show wins awards like “Positive Young Media Award” and gets an honor full mention at the Silver Nipkow awards. Also a CD/DVD has been released.  Thanks to great success a second season of ABOVT is scheduled for November 2011. At the same time Pablo and The Sleepless help composing and producing tracks for Ali B’s upcoming album of which 1 single has been released in July 2011 (‘Summertime’ feat Brace). Alain Clark asks him to compose and record for talents of Alain’s new record label.  With Ron Wright (ex-drummer of George Clinton) and Steve Hartly Pablo is working on a new project: an interesting fusion of hard core inspired P-Funk with a touch of soul.   Amongst metal- and guitar fans he is a huge example, but the most important feature of Pablo is that his great talent is not preserved for 1 genre alone: this amazing music talent plays and makes music of any sort and he enjoys them all. And almost 30 years later, he is still following his dream with the energy as if it was 1989.