Smidi

Bio

eric “smidi” smith, born january 27 1960 in covington, kentucky. smidi is a self taught musician. his interest in music started in 1968. smidi plays the lead, bass guitar, drums and keyboards. the name “smidi” derives from midi (musical, instrument, digital, interface) smidi joined the us ai...Read more...r force 1981 and retired as an e6 2001. during his military career smidi auditioned and was selected to tour as lead guitarist with the prestigious air force “tops-n-blue showcase entertainment group. in 1990 smidi was assigned to nellis afb, nevada where he was introduced to midi equipment. he learned that he could sequence all of the musical parts from a common computer source. smidi’s primary instruments are the bass and rhythm guitar. since discovering the use of midi equipment in 1992 he has sequenced music tracks for well known artist i.e. leon haywood, spice 1, new birth, and clay hammond. smidi produced the movie sound track music for love beat the hell outta me 2000, gang tapes 2003 and heros 2008. smidi co-produced the theme song music for hip hop–hip hop a show for las vegas, and the “the venetian wheel deal” game show theme song too.

smidi has approximately 2000 created original instrumental music tracks in his music catalog, and 1049 registered song titles with ascap. his goal is to produce music to achieve recognition as a “well rounded successful musician” in multiple genres.

smidi beats has background music credits for e channel “the girls next door”, the history channel “modern marvels” wgn america “funniest pets & people” hgtv “free style, designed to sell and curb appeal”, nickelodeon channel, and fox sports network “all access”, and “three sheets”, just to name a few . he has and is currently producing music tracks for several up and coming artist projects i.e. geno “g-love” stanley, j.b the don, 5 star, anonymous and paragraffz just to name a few.

smidi beats first solo jazz cd entitled “jazz foundation” is now available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/smidi.Hide more...

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