Sebastian Schneider

Sebastian Schneider was born on the 28 th July 1982. He is a german argentine guitar player, multi-instrumentalist and a musician. He is ...

Sebastian Schneider was born on the 28^th July 1982. He is a german argentine guitar player, multi-instrumentalist and a musician. He is also a composer and a musical producer. He is an artist that started rising to popularity on the new argentine and Latin American rock scene. He has been part of many rock bands and started his solo career in the year 2004. His songs have a deep lyrical content and his actual pattern of playing the guitar. He is one of the few people in the country that are playing the fingerstyle guitar with the electric version of the musical instrument on the rock music and applying complex scales and musical patterns at the same time singing.

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Early Beginnings and Career

1982 to 2004

Sebastian Schneider was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He took up the maiden name of the mother from a German descent mother and a Basque descendant father. He lived his early life on Palermo neighborhood, and that was the place he started his music profession. At the age of 6, his grandmother called Florencia gave him his first guitar, an acoustic nylon guitar. He started his musical studies on Carlos Guastanvino Conservatory where he started studied classical music called tango and the folklore music of the country. At the age of 11, not minding the persistence of his parents, he made his mind up to drop all his music ambitions. At that time, he already had been part of many concerts as a player of the musical instrument, guitar on the Conservatory activities and private events as well.

In the year 1997, he picked up the study of the musical instrument again with Squier Standard Telecaster that was given to him by the parents as a gift at the private academy that was sponsored by Yamaha Corp., and it was there that he learned prominent patterns like the rock, the blues and the jazz. He started forming many bands, leading them and composing music for the bands as a musician and as a rhythm guitar player.

Sebastian Schneider is never comfortable of using the pick that is used by many people to play the electric guitar and preferred to use the secondary role from a guitarist point of view and play the rhythm on music.

In the year 2004, performing as a solo artist on a private activity made him to reunite with HoracioAscheri, the leader of the Argentine band calledThe Pick Ups.

2004 to 2006

Leaving his fresh musical project behind, a hard rock band with English music only and with Ascheri as the producer, Sebastian Schneider started the recording of his first solo album called Cancion Para Nadie. In the year 2005, he dropped the album. And the single tracks of the music album, Haciendo Fuego started to air on a good number of radio stations in the country, though the music lasted for more than 5 minutes. Sebastian Schneider then started playing on many concerts on Buenos Aires and the suburbs and the first radio interview he got. After many personal conflicts, he quit playing publicly and dedicated the year 2006 to the writing of his new album.

2006 to 2009

Being away from the stage, and with Ascheri getting off his career for health issues, he committed himself to the writing of songs that would finally be part of his second album, and that took him close to a year to compose. In the early part of the year 2007, he gave birth to Una Vida Mas, an album that has dark but optimistic lyrics, and with a pop-oriented sound rather than rock music. A single track in the album called Dame got more recognition than the previous one, Haciendo Fuego and was aired by many major radio stations of the country. The music video of the music was aired in all the TV stations of the country and in some neighboring countries like Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, Venezuela, Costa Rica and Honduras. The record got his the opportunity to go on a promotional travel and it took him to many Latin American countries towards the end of the year 2008, and that was where he started getting many TV, radio and press interviews.

2009 to 2010

Between August and October of the year 2009, Sebastian Schneider wrote more than 50 tracks and from there he preselected 20 and recorded then in his studio. Sebastian Schneider made up his mind to create a concept album called ‘broken in half’ and released the first part of it, an EP called "Me voy a escapar...(Parte I)", in December of the year 2009. On the 11^th December 2009, the album was officially premiered live on a popular Buenos Aires Theatre, while Sebastian Schneider planned the future shows and travels for the new record and the dropping of the second part of the album being in the year 2010.

2010 to Present

By the early part of the year 2010, Sebastian Schneider got into the studio and completed the second half of the album and by June of the year 2010, the part of the album was dropped. The album is made up of 8 tracks that makes is 14 in total. This was the album that contains two songs that were made in the English language, for the first time by the artist. The album release concert was held on the 28^th August 2010 on a major Buenos Aires Venue; Luna Park. After the concert for the album in the early part of the year 2011, Sebastian Schneider took a break to go back to the stage.

Discography

Ø "Haciendo Fuego"

Ø "Vicky"

Ø "Luna Amarilla"

Ø "No SéPorQué"

Ø "Lo QuePasa Downtown"

Ø "Pisando El Aire"

Ø "Para PoderteVer"

Ø "Rock De Los CompasesPerdidos"

Ø "Media Solución/ViejosPapeles"

Ø "Cabashito"

Ø "Canción Para Nadie"