Vintrix Entertainment is a 360 degree Boutique Entertainment Company, managing the recording, production, publishing, touring, marketing, business affairs and career development of artists. With a background in media technology over the past 10 years, Vintrix remains an innovative, edgy, pioneering company.
Vintrix Entertainment adopts a Blue Ocean Marketing Strategy in balancing the requirements of the Artist and the Business. Having represented Australia at the elite level as sports coaches, athletes and managers, when it comes to artist development, Vintrix employs a High Performance Sports Management Approach; an holistic approach, focusing on the business, the music, the body, the mind and the soul - a strategy designed for endurance and longevity.
Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months & years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character. T. Alan Armstrong
Jo Hogan ~ Vintrix Director
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Aaron Akins (USA)
Aaron Akins is one of the most versatile vocalists and song writers in the music business.
Aaron Akins created the concept and was the inspiration for the Nat "King" Cole's "Re:Generations" (King Cole Partners, EMI/Capitol, 2009) recent release CD, that the Cole family, led by Natalie and the late Carole Cole. Artists on the album include as Will.i.am, Cee-Lo Green, Nas, Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley, Stephen Marley, Natalie Cole and TV on the Radio, among others.
His background includes the North Sea Jazz Festival in 1997 along with Ray Charles, Herbie Hancock and Eric Clapton, as well as opening for Bob Hope and recording with Henry Nemo (the legendary songwriter of Tis Autumn, I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart and Don't Take Your Love From Me, recorded by artists like Frank Sinatra, Art Tatum, Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, Mildred Bailey, Lena Horn and especially Duke Ellington).
Aaron's collaborations include working with Darryl Phinnessee (who had already worked with Michael Jackson and Quincey Jones, ''Frasier'', “Kids Say The Darnest Things” for The Cosby Show and “Dancing with the Stars”), Darryl Swann (Macy Gray), Anthony Hamilton, Bill Steinway (Natalie Cole), Michael Thompson (Don Henley), Lance Morrison (Alanis Morissette), James Allen (Stevie Wonder) and Angie Stone.
He performed for the Pope on Christmas Day (2000), during the Great Jubilee, as well as "House of Blues" (June 9, 2005), American Society of Young Musicians, honoring Lisa-Marie Presley, Solomon Burke, Common, Josh Groban, The Goo Goo Dolls, Ben Harper and Dwight Yoakam.
Currently the song God Made Women Beautiful, written and recorded by Aaron Akins for his CD Love is All Around, is being played on over 250 internet radio stations on Live365.com for an audience of over 2,000,000 listeners.
Listen out for Aaron's track God Made Women Beautiful.
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Maria Tecce (Ireland)
"Elegant, cool, seductive......if Audrey hepburn had ever learned to sing, she would have become Maria Tecce". The Prague Post
Boston born, jazz chanteuse, Maria Tecce is creating a strong presence in the European jazz scene. Her live performances have packed venues in Ireland, UK, Europe and USA. Maria is considered Ireland's most respected female vocalist and Jazz performer, having performed with international artists such as Dionne Warwick. Maria, now based in Dublin, Ireland, continues to move from strength to strength, performing to ever widening audiences and garnering universal praise from both audiences and critics alike.
Acting runs in tandem with music in this versatile performer's life and Maria is regularly invited to work in Irish and UK theatre, television and film. Multi-talented, Maria also presents her own radio program on RTE Radio 1 (Ireland) and comperes Artist Nights at Hennessey Cognac. 2008 saw her performing in Dubrovnik, Prague, Belfast, Boston and New York with rave reviews.