COMPLETE APPRENTICE AUTOBIOGRAPHIES & PROGRESS

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BORIS B.

Hi Mr. Trout!

Here is the biography that I promised I'll send you. I hope it is not too long and forgive me if you find some grammar mistakes.

My music life started even before I could remember. My mother told me that at age of 4 I was playing with piano, discovering the music, instead of playing with toys like the other kids. So she sent me to a music school when I was six and my first public performance happened a year later. Everything that will come later was just a logical step. In fifth grade I had my first band and we made our first recording a couple years after. Throughout high school I've been playing with several bands, but most of my time I would spend at my cousin's 16 track studio. My goal was to have my own recording studio and after I saved enough money I took a trip to London and came back with all the equipment needed. From that point my real career started. I was 18, I had my 8 track studio and the liberty to experiment in the privacy of the basement of my house.

Since my parents were in the movie industry I got my first chance to do music for the movie when I was 19. I enjoyed writing movie music because that gave me liberty to mix styles and forms, use all kinds of different instruments and sounds, to experiment. For several years I've been developing as a composer and producer, climbing up in my career. During the same period of time I was studying ethnic music and the history of music at University of Sarajevo. My interest was really wide, 'cause I wanted to be involved in everything and I have always a lot of energy. For 27-year-old man my work history was pretty big; 2 full length movies, 7 theater performances, several short length movies, 2 Tv shows, 2 Tv series and countless advertisements. I was ready for a big change. I wanted to go beyond the borders of my country, but instead of that a nightmare came.

War in Bosnia started and I lost everything in a few days. What happened in a next 4 years of war is another movie and I would need a couple of hours to tell you everything so I will just skip that segment of my life. Fortunately, with only emotional scars I find myself in Paris struggling with four other friends as a band, Overdream, trying to find a label that will produce our music. After a live TV show where we played one of my songs a producer of one of the labels came in our dressing room and we were in business. It was like American dream. In a couple of years we've been recording our material and also playing all over France. Well, you will probably wonder now what am I doing in the USA, but that is the long story so I will just tell you that our manager (singer's wife, never marry a manager) made a couple of fatal mistakes and we were back where we started. So here I am in the USA, working as a server for the Olive Garden restaurant, with a hope that I will get another chance. All these ups and downs in my life made me not at all a desperate person, but only stronger and wiser.

Thanks in advance,

Boris