User:Amirsmusic

Amir Shayegan was born and raised in McAllen Texas in May 3 1990, he is a guitarist/music composer,and part of the band MaddBury.

Early Life - Raised by a Persian father and Mexican mother Amir had a mixture of two different cultures in his early years while he was growing up, His father was musically inclined since his early childhood he is a pianist, but just played for self pleasure even though he played in a few bars occasionally. Amir started developing a passion for guitar at the age of 4 years old, his parents bought him his first acoustic guitar from a Mexican supermarket and he started playing and messing around with it, but nothing great came out of it since he did not have any musical background. At the age of 6 years old Amir happened to be walking in Mall with his parents, and he started hearing licks and screams of a guitar screaming coming from far away, and he followed it till he found were it was coming from. It ended up being a music store that was inside the Mall and there was a curly haired guy sitting inside the store by some amplifiers making a guitar squeal, and playing oldies from classic rock bands like Iron Maiden, Van Halen, and Dokken.

The beginning of a young artist - Amir was in shock and was amazed by what he had just witnessed and had never seen anything like it. This man's name is Frank Fuentes (former guitar player for Latin Grammy award winner Jennifer Pena), and was also a guitar instructor at the store were he was in. Immediately Amir decided to enroll in lessons with him, and took it from there.

Early bands, and musical projects - The first band that Amir got to contribute in was called Foremost Sustain, and was originally formed by drummer Jonathan Barber, and rhythm guitarist/singer Pablo Hernandez. Months went by and Jon decided that the band could use a lead guitarist, and a new bass player as well. Amir got recommended by his one of his early childhood friends Cori B. Jamison, and they decided to contact him immediately. Two days went by and Amir got together with the guys for their first rehearsal, and sure enough it was meant to be. The guys performed many shows for 6 years straight and were pretty successful in the local area unfortunately they did not stay together for long.

The beginning of a professional career - One sunny evening on February of 2010 Amir walked into Guitar Center to purchase some strings and one of the co workers had known him for years so he asked him "Hey there is gonna be a King of the blues competition, are you interested in competing?", Amir responded and told him " yes, were do I sign up?", he lead the way and took him to sign his name in the competitors sheet. He picked the song he was gonna perform and practiced it for 2 months straight and once the day of the competition arrived he showed up not knowing that there was gonna be a scout in the crowd listening to the performers. Amir turned out to be the first competitor to play in front of the audience,but he was confident and he did his thing not worrying about anything or anyone but just his musical piece.

The offer of the decision that would change his life - The representative came up to him afterwards and told him his name is Oziel Abram Salinas and he was a film director in Hollywood, but had connections in the music business, and he was interested in helping him out, Amir doubted for a second, but they talked a deal out,8 months later he decided to produce his first album and sent it out to different Record companies.

Current days- Amir is still doing studio work, and recording with other artists as well, his cousin Nasim Shayegan (PR for Lil flip's producer Willie Peters), is his official PR as well, and they are affiliated with different projects in the music business.

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