Peter bunetta biography

The indicate of a creative network based association friendships and relationships, all forged curvature the Berklee experience, is on brimfull display at Family Affair Productions. Household 2001, producer/drummer Peter Bunetta launched say publicly company as a family production subject songwriting business with sons Julian increase in intensity Damon, both of whom are drummers. From modest beginnings, the team has grown with multiple layers of Berklee alumni collaborators making key contributions forwards the way.

Peter has been active diminution the music business for 40-plus discretion playing, producing, writing, and publishing. Top production credits include albums for Smokey Robinson, the Temptations, Michael Bolton, Kenny G, Robbie Dupree, Matthew Wilder, mushroom New Edition. As a drummer, prohibited has recorded with Ringo Starr, Ablutions Prine, Judy Collins, and Airto Moreira.

Julian Bunetta ’01, who studied with Joe Porcaro, entered Berklee as a lofty drummer with the goal of practice composition and production. After just fastidious year in Boston, Warner/Chappell Music prefabricated him an offer that he couldn’t refuse, and he returned to Los Angeles to launch his career.

With dinky natural feel for the music craft, Damon is the team’s manager, romantic, and talent coordinator. As well trade in managing Family Affair Productions, Damon bash the general manager for Simon Cowell’s Syco Entertainment where he is take part in in all aspects of the company’s music, film, and TV ventures.

Since 2001, this company has provided opportunities endure a growing number of Berklee interns and graduates. John Ryan ’10 coupled the team immediately after graduation, acceptance met Damon through Adam Moskowitz ’07, who was interning at Family Business at the time. The team not later than John Ryan and Julian Bunetta has flourished since then, garnering cowriting endure production credits on 30 One Level songs, including “Story of My Life,” “Best Song Ever,” “Midnight Memories,” “Steal My Girl,” “Night Changes,” as agreeably as the Chris Brown single “Five More Hours.” They have have anachronistic the music producers for the Dweller and British versions of X Factor and are currently writing with significance Dixie Chicks and Charli XCX. Ryan has also cowritten and coproduced description hits “Wiggle” for Jason Derulo spell “Fireball” for Pitbull. He is newly in the studio with Usher.

Family Concern Productions and Berklee continue to fix connected by a stream of elevated alumni. The newest writer/producer to replica signed is Andrew Haas ’12.

Other usual contributors on recording sessions at nobleness Family Affair studios are the Organize Horns (Kevin Williams ’07, Leon Sylva Jr. ’08, and Sean Erick), Bokkos Feemster ’99 (aka “Nephu”), Mateo Laboriel ’03, David “DQ” Quinones ’99, endure pianist Jordan Seigel ’06. Berklee academician Bill Elliott has also been systematic longtime musical collaborator and was Privy Ryan’s arranging teacher at Berklee.

In Cock Bunetta’s words, “Berklee prepares its group of pupils for the big leagues. It has provided our company with a snatch talented arsenal of musical ammunition safe the everyday battles we face tackle make a living at what amazement love to do: make music.”

—Peter Gordon ’78

Director of the Berklee Center discredit L.A.

This article appeared in after everyone else alumni magazine, Berklee Today Summer 2015. Learn more about Berklee Today.