| PAUL MANZI - VOCALS
Paul Manzi found his voice and started singing at
age 23 (a late starter) and 2 years later joined progressive
rock band Barchetta. He gained valuable recording experience
at Abbey Road Studios, and equally notable live experience
including playing at the old Marquee Club supporting progressive
rock band Pallas.
Since then Paul has kept busy doing session vocals and
working in various successful cover bands/trios/duos and
performing solo as a singer/guitarist. More recently Paul
has performed lead vocals on the soundtrack of two rock/pop
musicals: Phantasmagoria and Space Family Robinson. Paul
joined Oliver Wakeman's band in mid 2004 and subsequently
performed with both the band and with Oliver as an acoustic
duo.
Although Paul's versatility as a musician has enabled
him to cross a myriad of musical styles including soul,
jazz, Latin, pop and musical theatre, he has now come
full circle back to his rock roots in joining Raw Glory
in 2006 and of course recently in 2011, and on tour as
the front man for Arena.
What more can we say!
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PHIL MARTINI - DRUMS
Phil Martini (aka Phil Martin) is a
London-based rock drummer. He was a member of heavy
rock band Tokyo Dragons until September 2008.
After their split he joined The Quireboys,
for two years.
In 2009 Martini joined The Union, a band formed by Luke
Morley and Peter Shoulder.
Also in 2009, Martini became the drummer
for Joe Elliott's Down 'n' Outz - the new band project
by Def Leppard's front man.
In 2010 he played drums for Ian Hunter's
performance at London's High Voltage Festival. We are
pleased to announce that Phil is now working with Raw
Glory.
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| JUSTIN McCONVILLE - BASS
AND VOCALS Justin is a multi-instrumentalist
who writes and records his own material. His musical history
is rooted originally in Scotland with his band Soul Drive,
a rock band featuring his brother Chris of indie band
The Bishops and John Paterson of blood metal band Achren
who performed throughout the '90s and early 00s.
McConville then went on to form his own
band Jeg and later JMC, all of which released albums and
toured throughout the UK.
Having worked with Cosmo in the Heavy
Metal Kids during 2010 and 2011, and also having released
some of his own material during this period and displaying
a flexible talent for the bass, Justin was an obvious
choice to join Raw Glory.
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COSMO - GUITAR
Cosmo started working professionally
in the 60s when he was just 13 years old, playing some
of the great old London gigs like The Bag O' Nails,
The Flamingo, Tiles, Blazes, The Speakeasy, The Marquee
and the infamous Top Ten Club and The Star Club in Hamburg,
Germany. This caused mayhem at his school but in those
days, fortunately, truancy was not so big a deal.
Moving on to establish a formidable
reputation during the early to mid 70s, Cosmo toured
extensively in the UK and US with the Heavy Metal Kids,
and then Curtis Knight & The Squires (a former member
of Jimmy Hendrix' pre-Experience band).
He has also worked with Frankie Miller,
Andy Fraser (Free), Lionel Morton (The Four Pennies),
David Jack (East Of Eden), Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy),
Brian Connolly (Sweet) and the legendary Jordanaires
(The King's backing group) - the list is endless! Then,
for no particular reason, Cosmo left the music business.
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| It wasn't until a phone call from the towering
Peter Grant (late manager of Led Zeppelin), who had been listening
to an old track that Cosmo had previously recorded (White Lies -
a new version of which appears on the Raw Glory CD), that he was
convinced to return, when Peter finally persuaded him to blow the
dust off his old Les Paul and get back out and do what he does best. |
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