Danny Bedrosian and Secret Army
Tallahassee, FL      R&B/Soul / Funk / Fusion
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Members: Danny Bedrosian, Dewayne "Blackbyrd" McKnight, Lige Curry, Rico Lewis, Marc Munoz, Mike Maloney, Teresa Jimenez, Elise Bedrosian
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Manager: Lisa Toney, Tigran Hovanissian, BOZFONK MOOSICK staff

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Danny Bedrosian is the current keyboardist for George Clinton & the P-Funk All-Stars, as well as a half a dozen other bands around the nation and the world. He is also the lead vocalist, keyboardist, producer, chief songwriter, arranger and publisher for Secret Army. From Parliament-Funkadelic/P-Funk All Stars as well are stalwarts Dewayne Blackbyrd McKnight on lead guitar, and Lige Curry on Bass Guitar. On Drums is Rico Lewis, who is George Clinton and The P-Funk All-Stars’ main drummer, The Guitar section includes Marc Munoz and Mike Maloney. Additional vocals are handled by Parliament-Funkadelic vocalist Kendra Foster, Teresa Jimenez, and Moon Child. This band has a sound and look that one will never forget;

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BAND NAME: Secret Army

 

GENRE: Funk, Jazz Fusion, Rock, World, Dub, R&B, Hip-Hop, Experimental

 

BAND MEMBERS:

Danny Bedrosian- Keyboards, Lead Vocals

Lige Curry- Bass Guitar, Backup Vocals

Dewayne “Blackbyrd” McKnight- Lead Guitar

Marc Munoz- Guitar

Mike Maloney- Guitar, Backup Vocals

Rico Lewis- Drums, Hype Man

Elise Bedrosian-Keyboards, Vocals

Teresa Jimenez- Backup Vocals

 

LABEL NAME: BOZFONK MOOSICK Production & Publishing (BMI)

 

LABEL TYPE: Independent

 

MARKETING: Secret Army has culled much of their live material from their self titled debut album, which was released on September 1, 2006. The Secret Army album has thus far sold thousands of copies, not just in the United States, but also largely in Europe, Russia, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand and Australia. Secret Army is also currently performing material from Danny Bedrosian’s first album “Som’n Fierce, which has sold thousands of copies internationally in the aforementioned markets. The third album, the Sleaziest of the Greaze, has received much international attention as well, and has been recently incorporated into the band’s repetoire. The band rounds out their setlist with some P-Funk classics, as a large portion of the Secret Army rhythm section also comes from the bedrock of the current rhythm section of Parliament-Funkadelic’s touring band. The band also released in 2006 a explosive and now sold-out concert DVD, containing the band’s first ever live performance, as well as interviews, rare rehearsal footage, and Bedrosian’s premier music video, featuring NYC based comedy troupe Murder Fist. The newest Secret Army release has been the double-disc concept Masterpiece, entitled “The Sleaziest of the Greaze” which features 26 musicians from 26 different world class bands, on 26 tracks. The album has sold out in its short two month long span of availability, and more copies have recently been made to accommodate the increased demand for this milestone double album. The band just finished material a third album, entitled Muzzle Moosick, containing both instrumental funk/fusion workouts, and vocal based R&B/Funk material, with some interesting world music and bebop jazz spins.

 

 

SELLING POINTS: Among members of Secret Army, Bedrosian, Curry, McKnight, and Lewis all come from Parliament-Funkadelic, which is one of the chosen few bands to be placed among the upper echelons of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Bedrosian and Curry also have played with the 420 Funk Mob, Drugs, and Cacophonic FM. Bedrosian and Lewis are founding members of Children of Production, McKnight was the original guitarist for Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters, and was a onetime guitarist with Miles Davis and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He also was the Parliament-Funkadelic Music Director from 1980-2008. Curry was a founding member of Incorporated Thang Band, and Starr Cullars. All four men between them have worked 100 years in the music business, touring all over the world, and appearing on hundreds of internationally distributed albums. Curry and McKnight have been in the P-Funk camp for almost thirty years now. (Please also refer to the respective discographies of select members) Various combinations of the aforementioned members have appeared on movies such as PCU and the Night Before, and television shows such as the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Bernie Mac Show, NY Undercover, The Late Show with David Letterman, The Jerry Lewis telethon, Last Call with Carson Daly, The BET 25th Anniversary Show, The 2003 Grammys, Saturday Night Live, and many more.

 

MARKETS: Secret Army’s major concentrations include but are not limited to the following regions. These areas all contain active street teams that operate under the umbrella of BOZFONK MOOSICK, and are subject to major advertising and promotional support services. The following names attributed to respective states represent street team leaders and major distributors of BOZFONK products, and supporting and/or affiliated radio stations and labels.

 

Recent Secret Army Shows include:

 

~Tallahassee, FL-Clydes & Costellos-upscale club behind the Governor’s building, debuting Secret Army for the first time. Also with opener The Soular System.


~Orlando FL-House of Blues at Disneyworld Opening up for George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic (twice)

 

~St. Louis, MO-The Broadway Oyster-an amazing P-Funk after show sponsored by Zoe Fest

 

~Tallahassee, FL-HempFest sponsored by norml at Florida State University

 

~Waterbury, CT-The Hip-Hop Funk Festival.

 

~Manhattan, NY-Blackbyrd Mcknight’s band at the Black Rock Coalition sponsored show.

 

~Deerfields, NC-As one of the main acts at the 8th TRINUMERAL festival on 8/8/08.

 

~Tallahassee, FL-Radio show on V89, radio station for FSU.

 

~Boston, MA-opening up for George Clinton, and opening up the brand new House of Blues in Boston

 

~Tallahassee, FL-Headlining at the Warehouse, venue in Tallahassee.

 

 

ALBUM OVERVIEW: Parliament Funkadelic keyboardist Danny Bedrosian's sophomore album, SECRET ARMY is a masterwork of soundscapes, grooves, conceptual analyses, and musical marvels. It is the first of the Secret Army series of albums that will be concluded this winter with the next installment: The sleaziest of the Greaze. Bedrosian tackles many new genres not yet reached on Som'n fierce, such as his classical roots, as well as gospel, Armenian Folk Music, Bebop, Ambient, Fusion, and more, but still has that hard poot fonk for the Hard stompin' Pfunk Fans.And the special guests abound here too: Pfunk's Dewayne "Blackbyrd" Mcknight, and Lige Curry are on most of this masterpiece's tracks (they are founding members of Secret Army too after all) along with former Sweet Motha Child and current Secret Army members Marc Munoz, & Seth Ceders, The Soular System's Ral Bryant, Som'n Fierce's Duane Day, and virtually everyone who has been in Sweet Motha Child. This album is a mixture of styles and suggestions to the political, cultural situation in America today. Nineteen tracks strong, and full of amazing textural, compositional material, Secret Army will not bore its listeners. Danny Bedrosian is the regular keyboardist for not just George Clinton qnd Parliament Funkadelic, but also The Soular System, The 420 Funk Mob, The Children of Production, GCIII, and his own band appropriately called THE SECRET ARMY; Danny utilizes his important musical abilities on this new album, having been classically trained on piano since the age of four. His funk chops serve up some true to the game stank too. And the exploration itself is a deep, beautiful AND harrowing journey through some really uncharted waters. Danny is proving he is not just able to play legitimately in many genres, but that he is truly creating something never heard in funk or any other genre for that matter. Do not miss the revolutionary music of Danny Bedrosian in his most ambitious, meaningful, musically and lyrically superior masterwork.

 


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