Singer Songwriter John Michael Ferrari

The John Michael Ferrari Band performing the songs from “My Early Life” album as well as the single, “Sentimental Fool I Keep Dreaming,” to be released August 1, 2018.

The John Michael Ferrari Band 2018

For current performance schedule, please visit JohnMichaelFerrari.com

My Early Life, music and lyrics by John Michael Ferrari

 

 

 

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My Early Life – Songs produced by Pepper Jay:

When Love Said Good-bye (Mastered by John Vestman)
“… I’ll look at your pictures one last time and put them with your things cause they’re no longer mine …”

 

Photos by John Michael Ferrari.

 

Why’d Momma Lie (Mastered by George Velmer)
“… Just a week ago she was seventeen Or was that ten years or more …”

 

John wrote Why’d Momma Lie about a beautiful gal for whom love never came even though her Mother had told her it would.

 

Let’s Run Away to Alaska (Mastered by George Velmer)
“… making love in the moonlight, kissing in the sun …”

Let’s Run Away to Alaska / Artwork by Brennan

 

John, while performing in Vegas, used “Let’s run away to Alaska we’ll tell everyone we moved to Nebraska! That pick up line didn’t work for him but the song does!

 

Brand New River Music by John Michael Ferrari. Lyrics by John Michael Ferrari and John Vestman. (Mastered by George Velmer)
“Today I found a brand new river, Covered miles and miles of thinking …”

 

Ain’t No Mistaken (Mastered by George Velmer)
“… we just play this game Like we just don’t care But in our hearts we know Our love is always there …”

 

Run (Mastered by John Vestman)
“… Run If you’re hurting’ inside, Run and get away …”

Screenshot from Run Video staring John Michael Ferrari and Lada Boder

 

Sentimental Fool (Mastered by George Velmer)
“… And when you cry, I’d hold your face and let your tears touch mine …”

 

Breaking Up Inside (Mastered by George Velmer)
“It’s getting to me, all of the lies, believing in things I can’t see with my eyes …”

 

That’s What You Do (Mastered by George Velmer)
“… that’s what you do when you’re in my arms.”

 

Don’t Fall Between the Daylight (Mastered by George Velmer)
“… We were once babies With little baby feet, Promises that grown-ups made They couldn’t always keep …”

Don’t Fall Between the Daylight / Photo of Katelyn Haynes by John Michael Ferrari

 

John wrote “Don’t Fall Between the Daylight” after meeting a beautiful 22 year old girl that was a cutter. The pain she caused herself by cutting herself used to help her mask the pain of life. Teen suicide prevention … important issue please!

 

 

Dustoff (Mastered by John Michael Ferrari and Pepper Jay)
“Got a bullet in my side and it hurts so bad …”

Dustoff

 

Dustoff was written by John Michael Ferrari in Viet Nam in 1966, Spec 4, 25th Infantry Division, just after he was helicopter dropped into his first fire-fight. Dustoff honors the “Dustoff,” which the Army helicopter that rescues the wounded and picks up the dead, and the medics and other brave military men who risk their lives to do so. The Dustoff organization features John Michael Ferrari and his song, Dustoff

 

When Love Said Good-bye sax lead by Rand Singer (Mastered by George Velmer)

JOHN MICHAEL FERRARI, Singer / Songwriter, Country / Pop

John Michael Ferrari writes emotional story-telling songs with a touch of sophistication in the standard, country, country/pop, and country/gospel genres. John writes songs about his life experiences and the experiences of others. The commercial structure of his songs includes memorable lyrical and musical hooks. John’s songs are produced by Pepper Jay.

John Michael Ferrari’s first album, “My Early Life,” consists of 12 songs that John wrote years ago. One example is “Dustoff”, penned by Ferrari while serving in the United States Army in Viet Nam, is a favorite among Veterans, including the Dustoff Association.

Other songs include “Don’t Fall Between the Daylight,” about preventing teen suicide, “Brand New River,” about remember a past love, and “When Love Said Good-bye,” about moving forward.

John’s musical influences include The Wrecking Crew, Glen Campbell, and Tony Bennett.

John’s music producer for over 25 years, Pepper Jay, calls John’s music: “a unique sound with emotionally piercing lyrics.”

John is also the author of “Acting with Your Eyes” and the co-author of “Dynamic Song Performance, The Singer’s Bible.”

John Michael Ferrari – 14 years old

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Caricature of John Michael Ferrari by Jeff Blake / circa 1994

 

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My Early Life Available on:
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My Early Life by John Michael Ferrari on Spotify

My Early Life by John Michael Ferrari on Amazon Music UK

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My Early Life by John Michael Ferrari on Amazon Music Euro

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Entertainer John Michael Ferrari circa 1997

 

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“My Early Life” is produced by Pepper Jay / Pepper Jay Productions LLC / Cappy Records

 

 

 

Hollywood Weekly Film Festival

 

Eric Zuley award for Digital Trail Blazer

Pepper Jay hosts the red carpet for Actors Reporter at the Third Annual Hollywood Weekly Film Festival and witnesses Hollywood Weekly bestow its First Annual Digital Trail Blazer Award to Eric Zuley. Pepper Jay chats with Eric Zuley, James Zuley, Frank Helring, Dante, Carmelita Pittman, Joe Lee, Delka Nenkova, Newton Lee, Will V. Moore, and more.

Eric Zuley is the CEO and Founder of eZWay Business. Eric Zuley was dubbed Top Ten Social Media Influencer in the world by Weekly Billboard Magazine.
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eZWay Business

Eric Zuley

Eric Zuley is a 14 time award winning host, tv/radio personality, speaker, producer, actor and entrepretainer. Founder of ezwaytube.com a content housing/distribution platform with 220 influencer channels powered by eZWaybroadcasting.com He is a Online Media Platform Specialist. He is the founder of ezwayaccess.com a social network similar to facebook and twitter with over 2,000 elite CEO’s and social media influencers.

Published by several magazine covers and being # 7 on a top ten list of social media influencers by Weekly Billboard Magazine, 2016 Cover of Hollywood Weekly Magazine, Actors Reporter, Cold Heat News he stands out above the rest. Eric Zuley is the founder of eZWay Broadcasting, INC which houses 20 eZWay divisions. has 25 media partners and 1000’s of elite affilaites. His radio tv company eZWay.tv owns 23 live broadcast channels with distribution and syndication to 650 channels reaching a average of 77 million viewers on Filmon.tv. his team maintains over 500 facebook groups with 50k members per group. He is the face of Axe Body Spray Music Star and has helped create and brand some of the biggest names in Entrepretainment. He started becoming recognized as the online influencer of the influencers after he was recognized by congressman Brad Sherman and woman Judy Chew, he had a award named after him by the Multicultual Motion Picture Association signed off by the city and county of Los Angeles then honoring the co-founder of E Entertainment Larry Namer, Founder of Woman of Global Change Dame Shellie Hunt, Capital Records EMI promotions president Steve Resnik and now in 2017 he will be honoring the creator of the Make a Wish foundation Frank Shankwitz which he also sits next to as a board member for the Speakers Coalition, 2016 Eric was given the Hero medallion by the children’s trust fund Los Angeles for having helped tens of thousands of Foster-care children.

Mr. Zuley was recently honored by Hollywood Weekly Magazine with a specialized category they created around Eric’s digital inovation, the “Digital Content Trail Blazer Award” this was presented at the 4th Annual Hollywood Weekly Magazine Film Festival, which every year gives out 1 prestiegous special category award like this, the previous recipient was the legendary Stevie Wonder. Eric is the creator of Hollywood Unites with Red Cross for the victims of Japan and Hatie. Through his company eZWay Promotions Mr. Zuley and his team have helped over 500 brands and individuals in their career’s using his digital media influence.

Eric Zuley is also a Sag eligable actor and has acted in several films, he is a producer of his own radio and tv talk show partnered with Actors Entertainment ranked very well with over 40 episodes on IMDB. Eric Zuley and his worldwide household name brand has been endorsed by some of the biggest names in Hollywood and business world. Frank Shankwitz creator of Make A Wish, Gloria Allred, Radio personality Big Boy, former director of the Golden Globe Awards Chris Donavan, Chairman of CEO Space Berny Dohrmann, creator of the credit card magnet strip Ron Klein, Actor Anthony Anderson and thousands more. Eric is a radio/tv live stream personality with a weekly radio.tv show. Mr. Zuley even has his own eZWay credit card about to release with a expentancy of a million supporters to use it, this card will be giving back through the eZWay Cares program.

Follow Eric Zuley and the #eZWay movement all over the globe and be apart of the #eZWayFam
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The Hollywood Weekly Magazine Film Festival is an exciting, relatively new, international film festival in Hollywood that is unique in many ways. With visitors streaming in from all over the globe and tickets already sold for the gala evening, this young festival’s fourth year in town is proving to be a glamorous and star studded event. Established and new talent alike will be donning their red carpet best and rubbing elbows with industry heavy weights on September 23rd.

The festival being created was inevitable. Mr Prather Jackson’s more than 20 years in the business with Hollywood Weekly Magazine, connecting people from all over the world, led him to establish this annual event. It has quickly become one of the largest, most international, networking scenes around. During one intense gala evening in the fall films are selected from an enormous amount of submissions and presented at the festival. Winners will be picked and lauded.

The Hollywood Weekly Film Festival is constantly working on strengthening relationships with the industry in the US as well as in countries worldwide to make it even more of a natural international meeting place for them and the movie goers. By sponsoring this fresh, new and unique event, you will be supporting a rich cultural life, not just in Hollywood, but also from a national and international perspective. Your support not only strengthens cultural activities but also contributes to a competitive region to live and work in.

Eric Zuley receives First Annual Digital Trail Blazer Award from Prather Jackson of Hollywood Weekly

Pepper Jay and Eric Zuley (Co-Producers The EZ Show)

Pepper Jay with Prather Jackson (CEO and Publisher of Hollywood Weekly)

Red Carpet Hollywood Weekly Film Festival

Frank Helring (CEO ezWay Business) with Pepper Jay

Cindy Mirkamali (Marketing Director ezWay Business) with Pepper Jay

James Zuley (Consultant exWay Broadcasting) with Pepper Jay

Dante (exWay Broadcasting Spokesperson and Host) with Pepper Jay

Carmelita Pittman

Prather Jackson and team prepare film festival awards

Actor and Bodyguard Joe Lee with Eric Zuley

Paparazzi

James Zuley (Consultant exWay Broadcasting) with Pepper Jay

Dante (exWay Angel), Carmelita Pittman (Radio Boomers Live Host), Eric Zuley, with Pepper Jay

Frank Helring (CEO ezWay Business) with Pepper Jay

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Ride Hard Live Free
starring Emilio Rivera
and
Lainee Rhodes

Pepper Jay (“Old Zyra”) interviews actor Emilio Rivera (“Gauge”) on set of feature film “Ride Hard Live Free”.

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Emilio Rivera

Emilio Rivera as Gauge

Actor, Emilio Rivera, is a talented gentleman. Even with all of the celebrity of Sons of Anchary, Emilio touches the people around him with kindness.

Emilio Rivera has discovered that turning your life around is the key to making dreams come true. His acting credentials have allowed him to top the list of successful Latino actors. His resume continues to grow with starring roles in films such as High Crimes (2002) with Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman and the much anticipated film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts. Emilio was born in San Antonio, Texas as the oldest child of four brothers and three sisters. When Emilio was a young boy his family moved to an area of Los Angeles nicknamed Frog Town and Emilio continued to seek the attention of those around him. His first experience with acting was in his third grade production of “Rumpelstiltskin”. Emilio admits his childhood was not easy growing up as a minority in a poor section of town.

Underneath the exterior Emilio’s passion for acting thrived and after much soul searching Emilio decided to take his biggest risk and pursue acting. The training, discipline and extensive hours of studying changed Emilio life forever. Those around him were amazed at the positive yet radical change in Emilio and realized he had found his true passion in life. In between his time studying Emilio worked as a mechanical engineer.

His first feature role was in the TV series Renegade (1992) with Lorenzo Lamas. He left his day job behind after he landed a role in the feature film Con Air (1997) co-starring Nicolas Cage. Emilio has appeared in countless commercials, television programs and feature films including Traffic (2000), The Cable Guy (1996), NYPD Blue (1993), Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990), Walker, Texas Ranger (1993), JAG (1995), and ER (1994).

Director Tony Mendoza

RIde Hard Live Free was directed by Tony Mendoza and executive produced by Steve Lowry.

 

Derek Russo, R.A. Mihailoff

Derek Russo

Lainee Rhodes and Emilio Rivera

Pepper Jay and Emilio Rivera VO session

R.A. Mihailoff

 

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Pepper Jay as Old Zyra by Herb Cintron

Pepper Jay as Old Zyra by John Michael Ferrari

Pepper Jay and Lainee Rhodes on set of Ride Hard Live Free

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Actors Reporter Interviews is an exclusive interview show on Actors Reporter, a channel on the Actors Podcast Network, a Pepper Jay Productions LLC production.

 

 

 

Recipients of Diamond Rose Awards 2016 from Multicultural Motion Picture Association

Jarvee E. Hutcherson, Pepper Jay, and Denise O’Brien

Pepper Jay accepts Multicultural Motion Picture Award in Entertainment 2016

Jarvee E. Hutcherson, President of the MMPA and Pepper Jay

Pepper Jay with LaRita Shelby on red carpet

Dakota Black and Pepper Jay

Denise O’Brien, Jarvee Hutchinson, Carmelita Pittman

The Multicultural Motion Picture Association (MMPA) is a 501c3 film organization, it has played host to some of entertainment’s biggest names, and provides aspiring filmmakers with an opportunity to reap the benefits of this charitable event. It has been supported and nurtured over the years by writers, cinematographers, directors, and actors all of whom believe that the greatest path to success is one paved with opportunity. This is what the MMPA strives to provide. The MMPA also provides thousands of dollars annually to men and women of diverse backgrounds seeking to bring various voices and perspectives to the film making community.

MMPA’s Annual “Lady In Red, Diamond Rose Awards” honors women in the fields of Entertainment, Fashion, Education, Community, Non Profit, Law & Medicine for their outstanding contributions in various fields.

Winners of Diamond Rose Awards 2016

For more information about MMPA, please visit mmpassoc.org/

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For more information about LaRita Shelby, please visit LaRita Shelby on IMDb

Actors Reporter is an American entertainment trade magazine (Internet and Cable) for an inside look at working actors and the entertainment industry.

Laura-Beth Hill covers the red carpet of the 11th Annual Toscars Awards for Actors Reporter. The Toscars are awards for films that spoof or parody the Best Film Oscar Nominations. With a celebrity red carpet and a glitzy ceremony, The Toscars celebrate 5 minute films created by randomly-selected teams. The Toscars 2018 was hosted by Lucy Pohl.

Lucy Pohl

BRITS IN LA presented THE 11th ANNUAL TOSCARS SHOW on Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at the Renberg Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

The 9 Feature Films nominated for Best Picture by The Academy of Motion Pictures (OSCARS) and their parody Toscars film:

 

Call Me by Your Name – Call me by your Maid

 

Darkest Hour – Dankest Hour

Dankest Hour

 

Dunkirk – Dunsingin’

 

Get Out – Get Out La Tonya

 

Lady Bird – Lady Boy

 

Phantom Thread – Phattom Thread

 

The Post – The Twatter Post

 

The Shape of Water – The Shade of Aqua

 

Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri – Three Cellphones Inside Venice California

 

Actors Reporter is a channel on the Actors Podcast Network, a Pepper Jay Production.

Award-Winning Director Roxy Shih

Roxy Shih is an internationally acclaimed Taiwanese-American producer and director.

Born in Europe, Roxy’s multi-cultural background and experience has given her a distinct outlook in her cinematic accomplishments. Her work is extremely versatile and she has worked with many independent companies both overseas and domestically, making her one of the most in demand independent cinema artists today.

 

Roxy was one of ten chosen for the prestigious Armed With A Camera fellowship in 2011 and received a grant to direct a short film, Play Time, that premiered at the Directors Guild of America and went on a successful film festival tour internationally. She has had her work shown at an array of festivals such as The LA Film Festival, LA Asian Pacific Film Festival, Cannes, South by Southwest, Toronto Independent, and Dances with Films.

Roxy had her directorial debut, The Tribe, acquired by Empress Road Pictures in 2016. The film stars the illustrious Jessica Rothe (Happy Death Day, LA LA LAND), Anne Winters (Mom & Dad, 13 Reasons Why) and Michael Nardelli (The Collection, Circle). The film has garnered a lot of media attention and has won awards at prestigious festivals such as Best Narrative Feature at Nice International Film Festival, Best Debut Feature Film at The Female Eye Film Festival in Toronto, and Best Feature Director at Other Worlds Austin Film Festival.

In 2016, Roxy helmed episodes of the highly anticipated sci-fi anthology series Dark/Web, which will be released later in 2018.

More recently in 2017, she shot and is currently finishing post-production on her sophomore feature PAINKILLERS, which stars Madeline Zima, Grant Bowler, Debra Wilson, Mischa Barton and Adam Huss. The film is produced by Title Media and Lone Suspect, expected to also make its debut in 2018.

PAINKILLERS will be having a limited theatrical release in LA at Arena Cinema the weekend of January 31st, then we will be released digitally domestically (iTunes, Amazon, DirectTV…etc) on February 4th, and we will be having a HULU exclusive later in the year.

The film stars Adam Huss (Power), Madeline Zima (Californication), Debra Wilson (MadTV), and Grant Bowler (Defiance, True Blood) with a special appearance from our favorite queen from The OC, Mischa Barton.

Check out the trailer: Painkillers Trailer

Follow Painkillers Movie 2019 facebook page: Painkillers Movie 2019
and
Instagram: Painkillers Movie on Instagram

 

On the side, Roxy believes in giving back to her community and serves as the Festival Director for the Taiwanese American Film Festival to give other Taiwanese and Taiwanese American cinema artists a platform to be seen. For more info, visit Taiwanese American Film Festival

 

Roxy Shih is a former host for various TV and Internet Show, including Actors Reporter and ActorsE Chat.

Learn more about Roxy Shih:

RoxyShih.com

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Manager:Seth Nagelsethznagel@gmail.com

Abrams Artists Agency
Manal Hammad | Ryan Levee 310-859-0625

Actors Reporter Interviews is an exclusive interview show on Actors Reporter, a channel on the Actors Podcast Network, a Pepper Jay Productions LLC production.

 

Shane Sparks

Shane Sparks : Emmy nominated Sparks is an accomplished judge and choreographer on the reality television dance competition “So You Think You Can Dance.” He was a choreographer during the 2005 and 2006 seasons, and was promoted to judge/choreographer for the 2007 season.

Sparks is also well known as a permanent judge on MTV’s dance competition “America’s Best Dance Crew.” Several talented and determined dance crews compete to earn the coveted title of America’s Best Dance Crew and a $100,000 cash prize.

As a result of his impressive body of work, Sparks has been recognized in the industry by receiving many awards for projects such as “Best Choreography in a Feature Film” award for “You Got Served” at the 2004 American Choreography Awards and the “2005 BET Award” for co-choreographing with Omarion on the same film.

In 2009 he choreographed the hit stage show Dream Girls which toured around the world and also Korea adapted the show there which ran for a few years.

Shane is now living in Las Vegas pursuing his film career. He filmed a few short films which he will be submitting to Sundance and other film festivals.

Shane has a lot of experience in this entertainment world and he’d like to share that experience. He’s also pursuing a motivational speaking career.

The Sky’s the limit for Shane and he’s ready for whatever comes his way.

host Olivia Grace, choreographer Shane Sparks, & music producer Pepper Jay

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Actors Reporter Interviews is a Pepper Jay Production.