Arts & Entertainment
Music Video Features Work of Newtown Teen
Max Galassi, who was a Newtown Patch Whiz Kid a few months ago, has completed work on a music video recently released.
In March, Newtown Patch interviewed feature in which he talked about having an opportunity to produce an original music video for an up-and-coming songwriter Renato Abella.
The video, which features Galassi and fellow student Lily Holmes, is now finished and released on YouTube.
The song on the video features the voice of Dave Bickler, the former lead of the Grammy award winning rock band Survivor who is best known for the 1980s song, "Eye of the Tiger."
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Abella, on his website, praised Galassi on the work the Newtown teen put in editing the video.
"He did a wonderful job of working with over 8 hours of video and editing it down to 3 minutes and 29 seconds!" Abella said on the site.
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The other guitarist in the song is Brad Gillis who played for the Night Ranger, best known for the hit, "Sister Christian." Gillis also played for Ozzy Osbourne in the "Speak of the Devil" album in 1982.
Editor's note: This article has been updated from an earlier version to include the names of the actress and guitarist in the video.
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