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Biography

Adrian Schafer Mathison, best known as Ad mattson, was (Born 5th March 1970)  in Caracas, Venezuela. He is the fifth son of four brothers and one sister. He is an Venezuelan European Singer,(admattson-beats.com) a round up artist which produces works also in literature field (Greenland Games.com), Photography (Admattson.com). He was influenced in the very early years of life from the sounds of the wild nature on the tropics around him, the importance of the environment was always marked in his character, pressing in his mind a root to tackle the necessities of human and their ecosystem in the literature field.. Ad made his bachelor in Industrial design in Caracas and later attended the school of Masters in automotive design, in 1999 at Coventry University, England. Ad writes almost all his lyrics, often using political, social, and religious themes. His songs are also impregnated with personal experiences and melodies using the love as a main driver. Ad is also widely known for his activism concerning Africa, for the organizations Save the Children and UN where he is an active collaborator.

Ad lives in Germany, but he considers himself a Citizen of the world after living in two different continents. In the last years the music has open to him a complete new universe to renew his love for the world and the people around him. Since 2010, Ad has taken piano lessons and singing lessons as a means to improve his songwriting and musical general skills.

Early life

As a child he was used to visualize the micro-cosmos world in form of analytical drawings which is another one of his very strong skills, the art of drawing. Later fascinated by music in the early age of his teenagers years, Adrian absorbed all the influences of the late 70,s, 80’s and 90’s music, new wave, rock, disco,funk, and electronic making the terrain ready for the future. At home playing with a Sony and Kentwood stereo sound equipment with cassettes and rotating plates, he understood the nature of the beats and the drums rhythms. Later on the mid 80’s, Ad’s Brother, better Known in the music arena as Wincho (bass player) was running a career in the music business that was successful for a few years. A hard Core Rock band Called “ Sentimiento Muerto” translating Dead feeling, which was one of the Pioneer bands in All South America in this music direction, The band played with Miguel Rios, Miguel Bose,Hombres”G’’, etc. on the Ibero American concerts in Spain. All this events did have an an influence on Ad intuitive career build up. As teenager, there were plenty of entertaining distractions, like traveling, partying, football, reunions, movies, family parties and others ones with high adrenaline kicks, like making Skateboarding at 80 kilometers per hour with his older brothers Ivan, Christian and Wincho. His sister Ingrid a brilliant mathematician developed later as incredible cookie maker and loving caring mother, Ad loved to grab some chocolate ones in secret. Many of these activities sink deep in his playful and adventurous character. Ads follow closely the concerts of his brother, enriching his character with an incredible consisting rocky sound with a flash of Pop music and latin rhythms. In the music Ad began playing drums with a few lessons given to him by his beloved uncle Carlos Schafer, also a Professional musician, after a short period of time Carlos died tragically faced an unexpected death from the terrible virus HIV. Ad was disappointed and confused, so there was only one route to follow, one he could control and execute, and that was the design world. Ad enrolled later in a career as Designer, which put him on the tracks and focus of the design world for more than 18 years.

The science background of his mother a pharmacist (Nelly Mathison), a choir and guitar singer as well and the political view of his father, (Alfonso Schafer) a business man confronted by the irrationality and mismanagement of the system, press in his mind the cocktail mix for what was lying ahead. In 1991 after studying Industrial design Arts in Caracas made career as Art director for advertising agencies such as Warner Brothers and BBDO, making also TV commercials Productions. Later he produced paintings and work in areas such as Packaging Design- graphics, fashion surf clothing, photography, apparel design and industrial design. Ad as a grown up, still immature man, couldn’t go out on his car anywhere, without counting with a few well mixed cassettes to listen U2, new order, the Cure, Billy idol, Cindy Lauper, Violent femmes, David Bowie, UB40, Bob marley, The smith, the Clash, Madonna and many others including the music of his brother. His favorites destinations, where the beach, the sport clubs, the concerts and the big private parties or the small friend’s reunions and ultimately the always romantic sessions on the Drive in Movie theater, movies with his girlfriend. In Caracas he experienced an enormous mix of cultures and social barriers between classes, with plenty of beautiful moments, luxury and love, life was again delicious a journey.

In 1996 Ad heads to US to learn English. He stayed half year living in Maryland, Washington with his beloved Mathison Family. That year he experienced the American life style, their parties, their culture and their Pop music. Ad travelled around Washington, Virginia, Georgia, Miami, Boston, Connecticut, New York and Vermont, in a few words he took a taste of the East coast life style. He heads back to South America, kept on working and made plans to live in Australia and get married with his girlfriend. The plans got disturbed by a sudden separation and the love was broken and remained untouched for a couple of years, before Ad lost his sense of comfort a new love turned up, giving him the motivation, he needed to develop as a man. He was ready for something new. Music was still playing a big roll in his life and with the new gadgets flowing the markets after the slowly disappearance in the 90’s of the famous Sony Walkman cassette technology, a complete new world of music was storage in a small 4 by 10 centimeters box, the Ipod. This event provided for him, and millions of people around the globe a revolution with much wider influences in musical directions and trends. Ad multifaceted personality helped him to keep moving and trying new territories. In 1998 heads to Europe to study transport design, then in 2000 after completing a Master in Automotive design in Coventry, England acquires the title of car designer and performed for different car producers around Europe. In England a huge amount of good music influenced the by now limited knowledge of American music Ad has till that stage of life.

During his early songs, Ad's lyrics contributed to his rebellious and spiritual tone on his First Long Play. Candy Up your life. As he grow up musically, his lyrics became inspired more by personal experiences.