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Since forming in 2019, this new hard rock band released their self-titled debut album in 2020 and became a viral social media sensation in 2021. AMH shows no signs of slowing down, and are ready to bring Rock ‘n Roll back to the top!
Adam Ezegelian, lead singer for AMH, has had rock energy fueling him since the day he was born. He was part of every school play and numerous extracurricular music programs like Jazz band and vocal Jazz ensembles growing up. But everything changed whe…
Adam Ezegelian, lead singer for AMH, has had rock energy fueling him since the day he was born. He was part of every school play and numerous extracurricular music programs like Jazz band and vocal Jazz ensembles growing up. But everything changed when Adam auditioned for American Idol in 2015 and ended up in the Top 16 of Season 14. He took his influences and love for rock and made people happy with his crazy voice and facial expressions. Adam merged with The Metal Hawks in early 2019 and t…
Adina Lichtman is a young philanthropist and founder of the non-profit Knock Knock Give A Sock (KKGS). Adina’s goal is to reimagine the concept of “charity” and how members of a community care for one another. Rather than simply seeking donations, which often feels transactional and anonymous, KKGS fosters genuine connection between members of a community and those experiencing homelessness.
Alan Jenkins is a Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School where he teaches courses on Race and the Law, Communication, and Supreme Court Jurisprudence. Before joining the Law School faculty, he was President and Co-Founder of The Opportunity Agenda, a social justice communication lab.
Jenkins’s prior positions have included Assistant to the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he represented the United States government in constitutional and other litigation…
Alec Chambers, a 26-year-old singer songwriter from Connecticut, who seamlessly blends authentic vocals and tasteful rasp with bedroom instrumentation to create a signature sound that his dedicated and fast-growing audience knows and loves. Not only is he known for his ethereal renditions of popular music- such as his iconic performance of Halsey’s “Without Me”, which has garnered 41 million streams on Spotify and 25 million views on TikTok - he’s also widely acclaimed for the release of his…
Alex Hertler, drummer of AMH, always showed a passion for music. When he was just 2, he banged on pots and pans every day after nursery school. He and his family later moved to Levittown, where he played drums with the school band, and needless to say, he was hooked. Before joining Metal Hawks in 2016, he played in numerous bands with music schools. He met future bandmate, Johnny Barry, at a music store they both took lessons at. Johnny would introduce him to Ryan Daversa, who he’d been play…
Alex Skora, the enigmatic guitarist and founding member of Love Crushed Velvet, oozes charisma just as much offstage as he does on. Born and bred in a small town, he developed an insatiable appetite for the creativity and an unyielding love for rock ‘n’ roll. Armed with his trusty guitar and a mischievous grin, Alex infuses the band’s sound with a potent mix of alternative rock, post-punk, and a dash of rebellious spirit.
With his fingers dancing across the fretboard, Alex weaves int…
Allan Havey (born September 19, 1954) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and talk show host. He was the host, writer and executive producer of Night After Night with Allan Havey, which aired on The Comedy Channel from 1989-1992. He’s known for portraying Lou Avery on AMC’s “Mad Men” and Karl Allerd on Showtime’s “Billions”. He made numerous appearances on the David Letterman show (on both CBS and NBC) and created two Cable Ace Award nominated performances for HBO, “One Night Stand” and …
Allan Stephan is a longtime veteran of the comedy club circuit, Allan has a much-deserved reputation as one of the quickest and funniest off-the-cuff comics working today. He has been able to take his best material and work the audience based upon what they want to hear and talk about. Allan has headlined every major club in the country, and for six years played to sold-out Las Vegas casinos and arenas with Sam Kinison as Sam Kinison’s Outlaws of Comedy. He’s also opened for many famous acts…
A regular panel member on NPR’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me, Alonzo Bodden has been making audiences around the country laugh for more than 20 years.
In August 2019, Alonzo starred in his fourth stand-up special, Alonzo Bodden: Heavy Lightweight, which premiered exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. In the special, he touches upon a range of topics from slavery, cell phones and the #MeToo movement, to millennials, Kanye West and Taco Bell.
Alonzo’s first big comedy break came when h…
Al Pitrelli is an American guitarist, best known for his work with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Megadeth, Alice Cooper, Joe Lynn Turner, Asia and Savatage.
Pitrelli attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston in the early 1980s (where keyboardist Derek Sherinian was his dorm roommate; they would later work together in the Alice Cooper band). While at Berklee, Pitrelli formed an original 1980s metal band with classmates that included Venom guitarist Mike Hickey. After dropping ou…
Amy Annelle is a modern day songwriter, performer, photographer, and recording artist whose work—as a soloist, and with small folk and experimental ensembles—balances curiosity and exploration with a reverence for America's restless, divergent musical past.
Angel is a comedic storyteller, sketch performer and filmmaker based out of Queens, New York. She studied film, creative writing and the ability to laugh at herself at Ithaca College.
After college, she joined the Upright Citizens Brigade theater diving into improv, sketch, storytelling and videos.
Ariel Elias was crushing the comedy club scene long before an incident at a dingy hole-in-the-wall comedy club in New Jersey propelled her to a house hold name. Poor management from the club’s chef lead to an unruly Trump supporter deciding it was a bright idea to hurl a can of alcohol towards her, narrowly missing her head. Ariel didn’t miss a beat, picked up the can and chugged it to raucous applause from the audience before tossing out a one liner that leveled the room.
On this e…
Arthur Paul Alexakis is an American musician best known as the singer-songwriter and guitarist of the rock band Everclear. He has been a member of several notable bands, in addition to his own work as a songwriter for other artists. Alexakis founded several record labels throughout his career, and worked as an A&R representative for major record labels between and during his own musical projects. Later he became a political activist, and lobbied for special concerns which included drug a…
"Like Elton John, Hanlon has the ability to focus with laser-like precision on the melodic essence of a song and rework it to find new dramatism. Hanlon doesn’t sing, and you could think the piano would limit him to instrumental albums, but that isn’t the case. Like Chris Botti, trumpeter for Sting, or rock guitarist Ottmar Liebert, Hanlon brings a broad range of guest artists to create fascinating albums."- The Houston Chronicle
Chart topping pianist/composer/arranger and …
Austin Campbell Pendleton (born March 27, 1940) is an American actor, playwright, theater director, actor, and instructor. His is known as a proliflic character actor on the stage and screen who has appeared in various films including Catch 22 (1970), What's Up, Doc? (1972), The Front Page (1974), The Muppet Movie (1979), Short Circuit (1986), Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990), My Cousin Vinny (1992), Amistad (1997), A Beautiful Mind (2001), the latter of which earned him a Screen Actors Guild…
Barry Dougherty is the author of How To Do It Standing Up, The Friars Club Encyclopedia of Jokes, A Hundred Years; A Million Laughs, New York Friars Club Book of Roasts and Friars Private Joke File. He has been the head writer for the Friars Club’s Roasts of Betty White, Quentin Tarantino, Jack Black, and Boomer Esiason and Testimonial Dinners for Tom Cruise, Larry King, and Don Rickles. He has also been the scriptwriter for the Little Kids Rock organization’s galas honoring Paul Shaffer and…
Barry Andrew Hay is a renowned Dutch musician and the charismatic lead singer of the iconic rock band Golden Earring. Born in India and later moving to the Netherlands, Hay's distinctive and powerful vocals have been a driving force behind Golden Earring's success for several decades. With a career spanning numerous hit albums and singles, Golden Earring achieved international fame and became one of the most influential rock bands in the world.
Barry Andrew Hay's stage pres…
Beth is an American actress. She portrayed Zelda Spellman in the ABC/WB television sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch. She also had recurring roles as Diane Janssen in the ABC mystery drama series Lost and as Rose Twitchell in the CBS science fiction drama series Under the Dome.
Billie is a renowned TikTok Star, Van Lifer, and Model out in California. Forced into homelessness while attending college she turned the tables embracing Van Life and all it's struggles by documenting it on TikTok using her incredible sense of humor, and editing skills to gain over 500k followers on the app, as well as a few endorsement deals while she still attends school to pursue her passion for filmmaking.
Bill Persky is an American television director, screenwriter, and producer. Persky and Denoff wrote some of the most popular episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show. They later wrote and created the television show That Girl starring Marlo Thomas.
Billy Van Zandt was born in Red Bank, New Jersey on December 19, 1957. He was a half-brother of Steven Van Zandt and his parents are Mary Lento and William Brewster Van Zandt. He married Adrienne Barbeau on December 31, 1992 and the couple has twin sons named William and Walker, born on March 17, 1997.
In contrast to his half-brother Steven, Billy is more specialized but still is an actor, director and playwright. He is the actor and co-author of “You’ve Got Hate Mail, Silent Laughte…