Alexander

Perris was born into a musical family, played piano and sang since the age of five. At sixteen he started working in recording studios as a backup musician and vocalist for major acts. At seventeen he signed a record deal with Dennis Rose of the famed Golden Goose Productions under Dantz/Capital Records. Dennis mentored Perris and taught him how to produce, audio engineer and master great recordings. Perris released his album "Still Be Friends" that used musicians from Ray Charles, The Righteous Brothers, the L.A. Philharmonic Orchestra, bass legend John Patitucci and the Aretha Franklin back-up singers. He produced, audio engineered, composed, played keyboards, sang and conducted the orchestra. Perris attended Cal State University Long Beach and received a B.A. Degree in music. He composed, arranged and did sound design for Gwen Gordy of Motown records. A friend who was a disk jockey at a radio station got Perris involved in learning voice-overs and playing the hits. Later this led to Perris becoming a radio personality, highly sought after disk jockey, remixer and audio mastering engineer. His also composed and produced jingles that frequented the radio airwaves. Perris was introduced to so many talented artists that he also worked as a licensed talent agent for some well-known acts. Later, he started his own music publishing company, He was an independent producer involved both in music and video production, doing projects for corporate, TV commercials, NBC, CBS and HBO to name a few. Perris played keyboards for "The Centurions" and received a platinum sales award (soundtrack of the year) for their song "Bullwinkle Part II" in the award-winning movie "Pulp Fiction". He also produced, audio engineered, composed and played keyboards for the Centurion album. Perris was music supervisor and music editor for the all-star cast and award-winning movie "Chinaman's Chance". He also produced, composed, audio engineered and recorded music for the same movie. Perris was executive producer for The "XXXtreme Comedy Tour" pilot (Comedy Central) and was also music supervisor, audio engineer, music producer and composer. Currently Perris Alexander is working with Shotta Bwoy, Executive V.P. Concore Entertainment A&R, as music & video producer. He has produced music videos for Nicki Minaj and Justin Beiber, just to name a few. Perris is producing the new music reality TV show “America’s Music Star".