Guitarist
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& Educator

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Grand Boulevard

Due out on April 28th, the offering runs the gamut of musical genres, incorporating guitar rock, funk, ballads, R&B, reggae, and orchestral pop, all featuring Baldassarre as chief axeman and composer.

Composed primarily during the isolation of covid at world famous Abbey Road Studios in London, Grand Boulevard is produced by Phil Naish, who has produced several Grammy Award-winning albums.

LYRIC VIDEO – OFFICIAL

You’re Wrong | Dead Wrong

(New York, NY) – Guitarist/educator/composer Carl Baldassarre has just released the lyric video for “You’re Wrong (Dead Wrong),” the first track from his solo inaugural album, GRAND BOULEVARD.  The infectious stadium-sized rocker features soulful vocals by Marcus Scott (Tower Of Power) with Baldassarre as chief axeman and composer.  Of the song, Baldassarre commented, “The track was written as a rock anthem for underdogs.”

The inspiration for the music stems from seeing AC/DC in a Vienna, Austria football stadium.  “I was completely blown away by the band and bonded together with the 60,000 enraptured fans!  I left feeling quite inspired by the power, energy, and unity of the whole experience. The sound and vision of that concert stuck with me, and I was determined to write a piece of music in that genre to close my album, GRAND BOULEVARD.”

  • Where there’s light, there’s life
    Carl Baldassarre
    Composer
  • In the language of music, notes are the nouns and rhythms are the verbs
    Carl Baldassarre
    Composer
  • Composing is the art of knowing what to take away
    Carl Baldassarre
    Composer
  • Doubt your self-doubts
    Carl Baldassarre
    Composer
  • Be insatiably curious
    Carl Baldassarre
    Composer
  • Pride is the greatest learning disability
    Carl Baldassarre
    Composer
  • The eraser leaves as much a mark as the pencil
    Carl Baldassarre
    Composer
  • The first beat you danced to was the beat of your mother’s heart in the womb
    Carl Baldassarre
    Composer

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