Pat Aureli - Songwriter
Owner of Shooting Star Studio Productions studio, Pat has created and produced a wide range of music, from country to pop ballads to blues to electronica and much in between. She is a member of BMI as both a songwriter and publisher - WHOLE LOTTA PINA COLADAS MUSIC.
As a result of a career in advertising and marketing, Pat also enjoys writing commercial jingles, themes, and soundtracks for film, tv, radio and video.
Pat also has helped produce short films and videos and studied film and TV production in college and with the Boston Film and Video Foundation. She is a member of and has worked with the Portland Media Center in Portland, ME. She is also a member of Improv Zen, a performing improvisational comedy troupe based in Yarmouth, ME.
Pat has had a love of music since the age of 5...(she used to jam on the kiddie drums with her mother on piano and father on trumpet). In grammar school, it was on to playing guitar and singing at folk masses in her local church. In high school, Pat dabbled in classical guitar and bass guitar and was in the Glee Club and Guitar Club. In college, she self-studied guitar, started her own all-girl punk rock band in the basement of a bakery, landed a couple of jobs in radio and became a music DJ , spinning at various clubs in the Hartford, CT area.
Additionally, she has worked with songwriters and producers in Nashville, been a member of the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) and has participated in the Maine chapter of NSAI. Pat is a life-time member of the Maine Songwriters Association (MSA) and a former Member of the MSA Board. She is also the founding member of a songwriting group, Seacoast Songwriters Association, in southern Maine.
Pat has studied guitar at Berklee Scool of Music and earned a certificate from Berklee's Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/records/gPF92AEySK7dbcd2 and also songwriting with Berklee Professor Pat Pattison: https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/certificate/6PG9W93FV4
Musical influences: I fell in love with The Beatles at the age of 4. In my teens, I absorbed every lyric and melody of the legendary singer songwriters like Bob Dylan, Carole King, James Taylor, and Van Morrison. I developed a love of blues greats like Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf, Lightnin' Hopkins and Stevie Ray Vaughn.. As punk music took the world by storm, in my early 20s, I couldn't get enough of The Police, Pretenders, The Eurythmics, Elvis Costello, and let's not forget pop icons Madonna and the late Michael Jackson. Bottom line: I love all kinds of music which is why I became a DJ and songwriter.