ARI GOLD

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Award-winning independent recording artist Sir Ari Gold is trailblazing a storm of political pop.  People Magazine says that Ari’s third studio album, Transport Systems, “takes the listener to fresh places” and Clive Davis says Ari “writes from the heart.”  His Billboard Top 10 and #1 XM/Sirius Radio dance hit, “Where The Music Takes You” was voted as  LOGO’s #1 Video of the Year and is the Grand Prize Winner of the 12th Annual USA Songwriting Competition.  Born and raised in an Orthodox Jewish household in the Bronx, Ari released his first album in 2000, receiving critical attention from Billboard, HITS, and VIBE and has been featured onHBO, IFC, BBC, Radio 1, WOR, FOX News, NPR, MTV and VH-1 for breaking down barriers in pop music as an openly gay artist.  His coffee table book and remix CD, released in 25 countries, with contributions by Boy George and RuPaul, featured the Billboard dance hit, “Love Will Take Over” which bumped Madonna out of LOGO’s top spot. Ari’s last two video’s “I Can Forgive You” and the Billboard dance hit “Human” mark his 4th and 5th consecutive #1 Videos on LOGO making him the artist with the most #1’s since the network first launched.  Ari is an Independent Music Award Winner (Best R&B Song, “Love Wasn’t Built In a Day” featuring Dave Koz), a 2x Outmusic Award Winner, one of the 25 People That Make Us Proud by Metro Source, one of Genre’s Men We Love, an OUT100, was knighted by the Imperial Court of NY and received a “Decade of Achievement Award” from the 17th LGBT Expo.  Ari has toured Europe, Canada and in over 50 cities across the US alongside Chaka Khan, Debbie Harry, andCyndi Lauper including sold out stints at Joe’s Pub, BAM and Lincoln Center..  He has graced countless magazine covers around the world and his activism and charity work includes the HRC, Soulforce, Ali Forney Center, ACLU, Bialy House, amFAR, Live Out Loud and GMHC on HIV/AIDS awareness and research, homelessness and human rights. He is currently working on his 4th studio album with the first single, “Make My Body Rock” slated for summer 2010.

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