Anthony Salari has a chillingly beautiful voice...... His songs are sweet hook filled pop morsels that evoke emotion and drip with sincerity. He self licensed his EP HateLove for MTV's Realworld & Roadrules, as well as E! Network's Keeping Up With The Kardashians, and Oxygen's Bad Girls Club.
Anthony Salari
Anthony Salari (rhymes with canary) is a 24 year old singer songwriter from Las Vegas. His music has garnered more than 500,000 plays on his Myspace page, and continues to grow from very humble beginings: after competing and eventually taking first place with an original song in the "Say You Wanna Play" contest held on YouTube, Salari was invited to perform at the 2009 NAMM show. Realizing this great opportunity, Salari hit the studio and recorded a four song EP entitled HateLove, which was then independently released on iTunes, Amazon mp3, Emusic, Rhapsody and Napster.
Following his performance at the NAMM show and subsequent gigs around Las Vegas including the House of Blues, Salari secured licensing for all the songs off the HateLove EP with popular television shows including MTV's RealWorld, RoadRules & Extreme Challenge, as well as Oxygen's "Bad Girls Club" and E! Entertainment's "Keeping up with the Kardashians."
The HateLove EP is also receiving college and streaming radio airplay from stations including WUSR 99.5 Royal Radio in Scranton. In April Anthony was one of two artists selected to perform at the annual RAIN Summit for executives from Pandora, CBS Radio, Digitally Imported, AccuRadio, Bonneville International, Cox Radio, Radio Paradise, AccuJazz, and other broadcasters and webcasters. At the end of May 2009, Salari took home 1st place in the "Faces of Violence" Singer Songwriter competition with an original song at the Lincoln Theather in Miami Beach. The judges for the event were 2004 Grammy Winner Paul Hoyle, 60's Hit Songwriter George Goehring, and Two-time Grammy Nominee Elsten Torres. His song "Get Pretty" was selected from a pool of over 350,000 songwriters from around the world to be included on a compilation featuring Alison Krauss, Natalie Merchant and Carly Simon. Most recently Anthony was asked to lend his voice for the song "Make The World Okay" written for the National Council of Nonprofits Organizations in an effort to bring awareness to their cause. He is currently writing and recording new material in between his live performance schedule.
"He's a promising talent, whose mostly acoustic-based tunes ride high on his poised, pleading voice and emotive, open-book lyrics that hold little back."
Jason Bracelin, Las Vegas Review Journal